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  • Making a Splash: Aircrews refresh survival skills with Alabama wetdown

    An AC-130 gunship, with seven souls on board, is no longer viable.Over the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of miles from any airfield, the aircraft is going down. With only a personal life raft on them and a 20-man raft they must swim to reach, the aircrew has to know how to outlast the ocean until they

  • Airlift wing's 'port dawgs' get real in Charleston

    One of the primary objectives of a reserve unit is to stay deployment ready.  Sometimes ensuring mission-ready status entails many requirements that seem to be farthest from a reservist's chosen career field, such as web-based training.Other times, there are opportunities to get hands-on, real life,

  • Aircraft generation exercise duplicates deployment conditions

    On April 12, the 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell Air Force Base successfully culminated an aircraft generation and mass launch exercise, resulting in 100 percent combat aircraft generated.Six C-130s took off in a mass formation airdrop in validation of their war time mission capability, on time, on

  • Gameplan results in LRS success

    This time of year, most Americans have one thing on their minds ... football. With that in mind, three flights of the 908th Logistics Readiness Squadron set out on annual tour to Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va.The 10-day evolution involved months of teamwork and coordination between the 908th LRS and

  • Combat engineers prepare for deployment contingincies

    The 908th Civil Engineer Squadron recently deployed 41 members to Fort McCoy, Wis., where both engineers and firefighters participated in joint exercises and training to better prepare for contingency deployments.The exercise included all aspects of contingency mission requirements, incorporating

  • Wing gets early start on readiness inspection

    Although the 908th's next Operational Readiness Inspection won't take place until 2015, there's a great deal to accomplish, and the wing is beginning the training that will help it pass the ORI with flying colors.The training also helps Airmen prepare for real-world events."These deployment

  • 908th units put advanced airlift lessons into practice

    The effort needed to sharpen the unit's airlift mission capabilities is a never-ending process for members of the 908th Airlift Wing. The dedication to continue to maintain and improve those capabilities despite the possibility of losing that mission is a tribute to the dedication and

  • Airlifters team up for labor (day) of love

    While most Americans were enjoying a long, relaxing Labor Day weekend with friends and family, members of the Air Force Reserve Command airlift community were teaming up to bring much-needed relief to orphans in the Central American nation of Honduras.Reservists from the 315th Airlift Wing, Joint