HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. Mark Breidenbaugh, a research entomologist assigned to the 910th Aerial Spray Flight, pours a product called Hi-Light into a mixing tank here, March 30. The bright-blue colored product is designed to easily identify areas on the ground that have been treated with an herbicide mixture that Colonel Breidenbaugh and a team of 910th Airlift Wing Citizen Airmen are here to apply to more than 1200 acres of target areas on the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) from a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr.

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HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- Air Force Reserve Tech. Sgt. Jeremy Rogers, an aerial spray maintainer assigned to the 910th Aerial Spray Maintenance Flight, operates the control panel of a Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) on the cargo deck of a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft parked on a flight line ramp here, March 30. Sergeant Rogers and a team of 910th Airlift Wing Citizen Airmen will use the MASS to apply an herbicide mixture to more than 1200 acres of target areas on the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR). U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr.

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UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE, Utah -- Air Force Reserve Maj. Karl Haagsma, a research entomologist assigned to the 910th Aerial Spray Flight, talks with Jeff Rhodes, associate editor of Lockheed Martin's Code One magazine here, March 31. Mr. Rhodes is interviewing Maj. Haagsma and a team of 910th Airlift Wing Citizen Airmen about their mission to apply to more 1200 acres of target areas here from a Lockheed Martin-built C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr.

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UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE, Utah -- A C-130 Hercules tactical cargo transport aircraft, assigned to the Air Force Reserve's 910th Airlift Wing, applies an herbicide mixture to more 1200 acres of target areas here, March 31. The C-130 is equipped with a Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) and the aircraft's crew is extensively trained to conduct this low-altitude, high speed mission. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr.

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HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- Air Force Reserve Master Sgt. Paul Tatar, an aerial spray maintainer assigned to the 910th Aerial Spray Maintenance Flight, watches as a truck hauling a mixing trailer moves into position to pump an herbicide mixture into a Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) on the cargo deck of a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft parked on a flight line ramp here, April 1. Sergeant Tatar and a team of 910th Airlift Wing Citizen Airmen will use the MASS to apply an herbicide mixture to more than 1200 acres of target areas on the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR). U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr.

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HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- A C-130 Hercules tactical cargo transport aircraft, assigned to the Air Force Reserve's 910th Airlift Wing, prepares to take off on a flight to apply an herbicide mixture to more than 1200 acres of target areas on the Utah Test and Training Range, approximately a 20-minute flight from here, March 31. The C-130 is equipped with a Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) and the aircraft's crew is extensively trained to conduct this low-altitude high speed mission. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr.

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Reserve aerial sprayers battle 'invader' weeds on Utah test range

Published April 7, 2011
By Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr.
910th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

NORTHERN UTAH, United States of America -- A team of 910th Airlift Wing Citizen Airmen and two C-130 Hercules tactical cargo transport aircraft equipped with a Modular Aerial Spray Systems are calling Hill Air Force Base, Utah home as they work to apply an herbicide mixture to more than 1200 acres of target areas on the Utah Test and Training Range. The C-130 crews are extensively trained to conduct this mission while flying at approximately 100 feet above the surface at a ground speed of 200 knots or more than 337 feet per second. The Air Force Reserve's 910th, based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, home to the Department of Defense's only large-area fixed wing aerial spray unit, has been tasked, through April 7, with controlling Halogeton, an evasive weed that can hamper bombing test evaluations and unexploded ordinance recovery.