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  • AF deploys remaining MAFFS to fight fires

    Beginning Saturday, June 30, eight military C-130 aircraft, each equipped with the U.S. Forest Service's Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) will be operating out of Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., to assist with firefighting efforts in the Rocky Mountain Region.Two MAFFS-equipped C-130s

  • MAFFS crews train for mountain fire fighting scenarios

    When you add heat, high elevation and mountainous terrain, you have 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

  • 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 here to prepare the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130s for another day of aerial fire-fighting. The day before saw

  • Fire's fury presents challenges to MAFFS operationally, personally

    The flightline at Peterson Air Force base roared to life June 26 as the engines of four C-130 Hercules cranked up to begin day two of Modular Airborne Fire Fighting missions in Colorado. The scene was reminiscent of a NASCAR pit with aircraft landing and refueling quickly before taking flight. Today

  • Wyoming Air Guard MAFFS activated to assist in Rocky Mountain area

    The Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing was activated to assist within the Rocky Mountain region to support wildland firefighting efforts, today.Two Wyoming Air National Guard C-130s and crews equipped with the U.S. Forest Service's Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System will arrive at

  • Wyoming Air Guard officers graduate the Citizen's Police Academy

    Crime scene processing, traffic enforcement, firearms familiarization, and building searches were just a few of the law enforcement duties 1st Lt. Berlinda White and 2nd Lt. Carly York were introduced to during their eight week attendance at the Citizen's Police Academy. Hosted by the Cheyenne

  • Laura Hensala selected as the 2012 ANG Family Program Volunteer

    Laura Hensala, the wife of Master Sgt. Michael Hensala, 187th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, was selected as the National Guard Bureau Family Programs 2012 Region 8 Volunteer of the Year.She will be recognized during the Wyoming Air National Guard's Wing formation on July 14.Hensala has been

  • Wyoming Air National Guard partners with Tunisia for life saving training

    Maj. Janice Weixelman and 1st Lt. Shane Ryan, Wyoming Air National Guard, Cheyenne, Wyo., 187th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron flight surgeon and flight nurse, traveled to Bizerte, Tunisia, May 22-24, to participate in the Medlite 2012 exercise.The purpose of this exercise was to help the Tunisian

  • WyANG Assistant Adjutant General assumes command

    Col. Dennis D. Grunstad II will assume command of the Wyoming Air National Guard on June 2, at 8:30 a.m., at the Cheyenne Civic Center.Grunstad, who will be promoted to brigadier general at a later date, will assume the duties of the Assistant Adjutant General - Air, from Brig. Gen. Donald A.