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AFRC News

  • AF aerial firefighters continue to battle West Fork Complex fire

    Another 11,000 gallons of fire retardant was dropped on West Fork Complex fires by Air Force aerial firefighting aircraft June 26, aiding ground crews in containing the growing blazes.Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve aircrews flying their Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130s

  • Practice makes perfect

    Transferring more than 970 gallons of fuel per minute between two aircraft flying 30 feet apart at 30,000 feet and 500 miles per hour may seem like anything but a routine operation, but for aircrews practicing air refueling training, it's all in a day's work.Today, members of the Air Force Reserve

  • Barksdale bids farewell to A-10s

    The last three A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft assigned to the 917th Fighter Group left Barksdale June 24. The final take-off marked the end of an era at the base, as Airmen and community members waved their final goodbyes to the A-10s in a farewell ceremony on the flightline. "While today is

  • Air Force aerial firefighting continues against Rocky Mountain fires

    Air Force aerial firefighting aircraft continued dropping thousands of gallons of fire retardant June 24 in an effort to contain growing Rocky Mountain wildland fires.Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard C-130 aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System performed two

  • $24M hydrant fueling system project announced at Westover

    Some 40 civic, business, and military leaders gathered at a ceremony June 24 announcing a $24.4 million contract to fund a new fuel hydrant system on base. The ceremony took place on the C-5 aircraft ramp at Westover, in the shadow of a C-5 Galaxy, the largest aircraft in the U.S. military. Opening

  • Reservists deliver Dover's 11th C-5M

    History was recorded and heritage was remembered when the base received its 11th C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft June 21.Maj. Gen. Craig N. Gourley, Air Force Reserve Command vice commander, piloted the newly modernized aircraft from Marietta, Ga. He was accompanied by a team of 709th Airlift Squadron

  • Joint mass casualty exercise tests Fort Worth personnel

    Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, Navy and Civil Air Patrol personnel conducted a joint mass casualty exercise here June 23.  "The goal is to facilitate learning in a joint effort as well as individual training requirements so that we could actually answer and work a mass casualty," said Maj.

  • Reserve C-130s respond to Lime Gulch fire

    Two Air Force Reserve Command C-130s equipped with U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems responded to the Lime Gulch fire in southern Jefferson County, Colo. June 19.The U.S. Forest Service-generated launch order was received shortly after 2 p.m. by the AF Reserve aircrews who

  • Reserve aerial spray unit swats 'skeeters' at JB Charleston

    "There must be thousands of 'em, millions of 'em. What are they doing?""It looks like they're preparing an invasion."Even though this dialogue is from the 1996 science fiction blockbuster film, "Independence Day," it is an accurate description of the annual real-life assault from saltwater marsh

  • Total force trifecta pulls off tanker-fighter mission

    Members of the 459th Air Refueling Wing here got first-hand experience working within the total force trifecta of active duty, Guard and Reserve during an overseas mission June 7-12. Two pilots, three maintainers and a boom operator from the Air Force Reserve's 459th ARW traveled to Estonia to