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Showing posts with label MAFFS Mission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MAFFS Mission. Show all posts
Monday, September 22, 2014

Heads up West Coast - the MAFFS 130s from Charlotte heading your way

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From the NORAD/USNORTHCOM twitter feed: "Two C-130s with MAFFS system from 145th Airlift Wing/North Carolina Air National Guard a...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

California National Guard air resources battle wildfires

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MAFFS 6, a C130J from the 146th Airlift Wing in Port Hueneme, Calif., drops a line of retardant over the trees in the mountains above Palm...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

CAP Supports U.S. Air Force Firefighting Role

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MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. -- Civil Air Patrol is providing communications support to Air Force National Guard and Reserve units when the...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Wyoming Air Guard unit conducts annual MAFFS training

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Airmen assigned to the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, prepare to load a U.S. Forest Service Modualar Airborne Firefighting...
Friday, July 15, 2011

MAFFS aircraft, crews conclude firefighting operations in Southwest

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A MAFFS-equipped C-130 Hercules drops fire retardant, building a fire containment line in the Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico. (U.S. For...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

AFNORTH officials increase wildfire suppression support

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by Tom Saunders, Air Forces Northern Public Affairs TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) -- Air Forces Northern officials deployed two additi...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Dyess Airmen assist with Texas wildfires

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by Tech. Sgt. Robert Wollenberg, 7th Bomb Wing Public Affairs DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- Members of the 7th Bomb Wing and 317th A...

C-130s continue support of fire fighting efforts in Texas, Mexico

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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) -- Under the command of U.S. Northern Command, six C-130 Hercules aircraft, equipped with U.S. Forest ...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

Guard members respond to brush fires in California

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by Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke, National Guard Bureau ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- Two Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems 2 aircraft from the Cali...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

California Guard Gets Green Light for New Airborne Firefighting System

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By Air Force Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith, Special to American Forces Press Service A California Air National Guard C-130J Hercules cargo airc...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Third Reserve C-130 joins California wildfire fight

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by Senior Airman Stephen Collier, 302nd Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs An Air Force Reserve Command C-130 Hercules taxies toward th...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Citizen Airmen prepare for war on fire

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by Senior Airman Stephen Collier, 302nd Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs Approximately 3,000 gallons of fire retardant can be deploye...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Reserve C-130s helping fight California fires

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Two Air Force Reserve Command C-130 Hercules aircraft, equipped with Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems like this C-130 dropping water du...