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NEWS

  • Airman's partner, man's best friend

    A team of five 87th Security Forces Squadron members traveled to Maryland to visit a fellow SFS member June 22 who is undergoing medical treatment after sustaining injuries during his deployment in Afghanistan.Staff Sgt. Brian Williams suffered serious injuries after an improvised explosive device

  • MAFFS crews train for mountain fire fighting scenarios

    Heat, high elevation and mountainous terrain are a combination that makes an already difficult mission that much tougher. The Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System trained C-130 Hercules pilots of the 731st Expeditionary Air Squadron have been dealing with these conditions since they started flying

  • McChord Reserve maintainer helps repair damaged C-17

    A 141-ton, $180 million C-17 Globemaster III departs the snow-covered runway at a critical Forward Operating Base in the combat zone. The position of the aircraft blocks the runway and prevents other aircraft from landing, thereby limiting re-supply options. It is clear that the aircraft must be

  • 82nd Sustainment Brigade Riggers Assist Air Force JPADS Drop

    82nd Sustainment Brigade soldiers and airmen with the 820th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers participated in a joint Army/Air Force Operation involving the Joint Precision Airdrop System at Nellis Air Force Base June 16.In addition to the JPADS, paratroopers also

  • Sole AF Contingency Response Wing conducts change of command ceremony

    Col. Martin A. Chapin took command of the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Col. Chris B. Patterson in a ceremony June 28 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Chapin comes to the 621st CRW by way of Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where he served as vice wing commander, 521st Air Mobility

  • MAFFS crews eager to fight fire another day

    A heavy smell of smoke and a thick haze greeted members of the 731st Expeditionary Air Squadron as they arrived on the flightline during the early morning June 27 at Peterson Air Force Base, Calif., to prepare the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130s for another day of aerial

  • Vandenberg sends hot shots to Colorado wildfire front lines

    Vandenberg Air Force Base officials deployed the only Defense of Department wildland fire-fighting asset at 2 p.m. June 27 in support of the wildland fire-fighting efforts in Colorado Springs, Colo.The 18-member Vandenberg Air Force Base Hot Shot crew, along with two hot shots crew carrier vehicles,

  • Air Force teams work to tame Colorado wildfires

    An Air Force team from the active duty, Air National Guard, the Air Reserve and the Air Force Academy have mobilized to help fight the quickly spreading Waldo Canyon fire near Colorado Springs, Colo., that has burned more than 3,500 acres.The request for assistance from the National Interagency Fire

  • Charleston Airman lives to tell of war: earns two medals

    Staff Sgt. Douglas Ryan, 628th Explosive Ordnance Disposal noncommissioned officer in charge of training, stands at attention in front of the entire 628th Civil Engineer Squadron, his wife and a major general, about to have a Bronze Star and Air Force Combat Action Medal pinned to his chest, June 27

  • Colorado Reserve unit called in to fight wildland fires

    The Air Force Reserve Command's 302nd Airlift Wing here received word June 24 that it was tasked to provide Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, or MAFFS, support to the ongoing Colorado wildland fires. The request for assistance from The National Interagency Fire Center to the Department of