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07/10/11 CHICOPEE - A native of Massachusetts is scheduled to take over as the next commander of the 439th Airlift Wing...
07/08/11 Over two weeks, firefighting planes from the Colorado Springs-based 302nd Airlift Wing have flown 66 missions against wildfires that have blackened more than 800,000 acres in New Mexico and Arizona.Two four-engined C-130 transport planes from the Reserve wing headed for Kirtland Air...
06/29/11 MANSFIELD -- U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown joined other senators in signing a letter this week to the Air Force urging the placement of additional C-27J aircraft for the 179th Airlift Wing based at Mansfield Air National Guard Base.
06/27/11 About 25 members of the 302nd Airlift Wing are set to depart Tuesday morning to help in firefighting efforts in New Mexico.
06/27/11 Peterson Air Force Base is sending two planes to New Mexico to help fight wildfires in that state and Arizona. The planes from the 302nd Airlift Wing, a reserve unit, will be based at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. The planes are scheduled to leave Tuesday, along with 10 members of the wing working in Idaho.
06/26/11 Peterson Air Force Base is sending two planes to New Mexico to help fight wildfires in that state and Arizona. The planes from the 302nd Airlift Wing, a reserve unit, will be based at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.
06/21/11 The Combat Readiness Training Center and the 165 th Airlift Wing have deployed heavy equipment and airman-operators to the Ware County and Waycross, Ga. to help fight the several fires that made up the Honey Prairie Fire Complex.
06/20/11 Once again, the aerial firefighters of the U.S. Air Force have been called to action. With the Wallow Fire and the Horseshoe 2 Fire still spreading along the Arizona-New Mexico border, the unique abilities of the 146th Airlift Wing (California Air National Guard, Channel Islands) and the 145th Airlift Wing (North Carolina Air National Guard, Charlotte) have been requested. Four C-130 aircraft ...
06/17/11 CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The North Carolina Air National Guard's 145th Airlift Wing, based in Charlotte, will send two aircrafts equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) to New Mexico Saturday morning to fight wild fires raging along the New Mexico-Colorado border and in eastern Arizona. The 145th received notification of the mission Friday. In addition to the two aircrafts ...
06/11/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. The Air Force side of Joint Base Lewis-McChord is getting a new commander. The Air Force tells The News Tribune that Col. R. Wyn Elder will take over leadership of the 62nd Airlift Wing from Col. Kevin J. Kilb on Tuesday. Elder and his family are relocating from Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma, where he was the No. 2 wing ...
06/11/11 Col. R. Wyn Elder is relocating from Oklahoma's Altus Air Force Base to take over leadership of the 62nd Airlift Wing.
05/31/11 NIAGARA FALLS, NY - About 80 members of the NY Air National Guard's 107th Airlift Wing began what is scheduled to be a 3-4 month deployment to Afghanistan, with a family sendoff at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Base on Monday.
05/30/11 The 110th Airlift Wing Color Guard -- from left, Mat Ford, Erik Morse, Kristina Person and Steven Gage -- stand during ceremonies Sunday at Fort Custer National Cemetery.
05/26/11 1Col. Merle D. Hart, commander of the 440th Airlift Wing at Pope Field, is slated to speak at the Fayetteville VA Medical Center's annual Memorial Day observance today at 11a.m. The event will be in the hospital's third floor auditorium and the public is invited.
05/23/11 Ceremonies held Sunday at the Arkansas Air National Guard base at Little Rock Air Force Base marked the transfer of command of the 189th Airlift Wing from retiring Col. James R. Summers to Col. Harold S. Eggensperger. Summers has commanded the wing since November 2007.
05/19/11 Ceremonies held Sunday at the Arkansas Air National Guard base at Little Rock Air Force Base marked the transfer of command of the 189th Airlift Wing from retiring Col. James R. Summers to Col. Harold S. Eggensperger. Summers has commanded the wing since November 2007.
03/21/11 Seven crew members from the 172nd Airlift Wing took off Monday afternoon from Thompson Field.
02/20/11 Associated Press - February 20, 2011 8:05 AM ET ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Fifteen airmen from the 133rd Airlift Wing of the Minnesota Air National Guard are returning to Minnesota following a...
02/20/11 Fifteen airmen from the 133rd Airlift Wing of the Minnesota Air National Guard are returning to Minnesota following a six-month deployment to Iraq. The Air National Guard holds a welcome home ceremony for the airmen this Sunday morning at its headquarters near the Minneapolis-St.
02/20/11 Fifteen airmen from the 133rd Airlift Wing of the Minnesota Air National Guard are returning to Minnesota following a six-month deployment to Iraq.
12/30/10 MARTINSBURG - The United States Air Force is considering converting three Air National Guard Units - including the 167th Airlift Wing - from C-5 to C-17 aircraft, a move that could cost 216 local jobs, if the proposed change gets Congressional... | 
