Aug. 15, 2022 Civic leaders tour Peterson Space Force Base, U.S. Air Force Academy Twenty-four civic leaders from Mississippi joined 403rd Wing leaders on a community relations tour, commonly referred to as a Civic Leader Tour, April 11-12, to Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado.Civic leader tours provide members of the Mississippi Gulf Coast community an opportunity to visit
May 4, 2022 Airborne Firefighting units participate in interagency spring training in Idaho Less than two years after the most devastating firefighting season in the United States, the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) spring training took place at Gowen Field, Idaho, April 25-29, 2022.
July 24, 2019 Reserve Citizen Airmen showcase at one of the nation’s biggest air shows Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 302nd Airlift Wing arrived at one of the nation’s biggest air shows today to showcase the wing’s special aerial firefighting mission.
May 5, 2019 302nd Airlift Wing hosting annual aerial firefighting training About 300 people from the Air National Guard, U.S. Forest Service and other firefighting agencies are scheduled Monday to begin a weeklong aerial wildland firefighting training and certification hosted by the Air Force Reserve’s 302nd Airlift Wing at Peterson Air Force Base, here.
April 24, 2018 Air Guard, Reserve wings kick off annual MAFFS training As temperatures heated up in northern California, aerial firefighters from four C-130 airlift wings operating the U.S.D.A. Forest Service’s Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, or MAFFS, started a weeklong training April 23 in anticipation of summer blazes.
Nov. 16, 2015 Aerial firefighters reflect on mission challenges In early October the National Interagency Fire Center lowered the National Wildfire Preparedness level to one, its lowest level of five indicating national large fire activity had reduced to minimal levels. With this, and with what appears to be the end of hot, dry conditions in the western U.S.,