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  • Mission Planning

    PHOTO: Capt. Robert Deland (left) and Maj. Hesham Aly discuss the flight plan inside a C-17 Globemaster III prior to an aeromedical-evacuation training mission July 31. Both Airmen serve as Citizen Airmen with the 732nd Airlift Squadron.

  • Reserve Airmen provide enroute maintenance in Turkey

    Seven Citizen Airmen from the 514th Maintenance Squadron recently provided C-17 maintenance support at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey.They were joined by two Air National Guard members from the 123rd Contingency Response Group in Kentucky.The primary mission of the 123rd CRG is to provide rapidly

  • LRS Airmen impress active-duty hosts

    For the last two weeks in June, 16 Airmen from the 514th Logistics Readiness Squadron and one Airman from the 35th Aerial Port Squadron spent their annual training at Aviano Air Base, Italy.This was the first time they were sent out as a team and they represented the entire unit.They completed a

  • Cooking at high altitude

    On a recent flight from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Technical Sgt. Todd Dallman, 76th Air Refueling Squadron boom operator, treated his fellow crewmates to a German feast.Dallman loves to cook, but travelling the globe on a KC-10 Extender has forced him to make concessions when he's a chef in the

  • Silhouettes of Airpower

    A team of Reserve Airmen from the 514th Air Mobility Wing fused art, technology and heritage together in a special project to display the legacy of the wing's contributions to airpower.Visitors to the wing's main conference room who look up will see a mural that includes five model aircraft in

  • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

    My children don't like history.  They don't like taking history courses in school. They put up a fight whenever I make them go to museums or historic sites.  And they don't like hearing about our family history; where the family came from or the challenges they have overcome.At least that's what

  • Maintenance training in the Rocky Mountains

    More than 120 Reserve Airmen, most from the 514th Maintenance Group, participated in a training mission at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.The maintainers participated in several types of training, both on the aircraft as well as in the classroom.In one session, Chief Master Sgt. Kevin Warbrick,