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  • AF Reserve, ANG Airmen prepare for 2016 wildland fire season

    More than 400 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Airmen from across the country gathered May 2-6 to be certified on the military’s Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, known as MAFFS, in preparation for the 2016 wildland fire season.Airmen from four ANG wings, together with the AF Reserve’s

  • Reserve wings host community, military leaders

    Col. Erich C. Novak, 302nd Airlift Wing vice commander briefs local community and military leaders during the April 20, 2016 Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance Military Affairs Council Area Chiefs of Staff meeting. The organization's April meeting was held in an aircraft maintenance hangar

  • Reserve wing’s courtyard is AF design award winner

    The newly constructed courtyard and centerpiece to four 302nd Airlift Wing campus buildings has been recognized as the 2015 Honor Award winner in the category of Landscape Architecture for the 2015 Air Force Design Awards program. According to a release from the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center

  • Colorado Reservists to support Southwest Asia airlift ops

    Approximately 150 Air Force Reservists and four C-130s from Colorado’s 302nd Airlift Wing have begun a four-month deployment to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. Assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing based at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, the aircrew, aircraft maintainers

  • 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.,

  • Commander speaks at A/TA Convention

    Lt. Gen. James F. Jackson, chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander, Air Force Reserve Command, speaks about the future of the Air Force Reserve during the 47th Annual Airlift/Tanker Association Convention in Orlando, Fla., Oct. 31. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Shandresha Mitchell/Released)