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  • Aircrew members assigned to the 757th Airlift Squadron fly an aerial spray modified C-130H Hercules aircraft, Sept. 23, 2020, above Mountain Home Air Force Base’s Saylor Creek Training Range, Idaho.

    Mt. Home: Weed whacking

    This story is part of a series giving an inside look at how the 910th Airlift Wing conducts aerial spray herbicide missions at Mountain Home Air Force Base's Saylor Creek Training Range in Idaho.
  • During a 910th Airlift Wing aerial spray mission to control the cheatgrass on Saylor Creek Training Range, 910th CS provided ground-to-air radio support.

    Behind the Mission: Comm. keeps aircrews radio-ready

    Tasked with building and safeguarding the communication link during the two-week mission, Reserve Citizen Airmen assigned to the 910th Communications Squadron set up and maintained mission-essential radios and provided computer support where needed.
  • Reserve Citizen Airmen from Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, traveled to Mountain Home AFB to conduct aerial spray operations to combat the growth of cheatgrass, an invasive winter annual.

    910th AW conducts annual herbicide mission for Mountain Home

    Over the course of 12 days, Sept. 14–25, 2020, at an altitude of 100 feet above ground level and 200 knots ground speed, the 910th Airlift Wing dispersed 19,979 gallons of diluted herbicide over 3,050 acres at Mountain Home Air Force Base's Saylor Creek Bombing Range.
  • Tech. Sgt. Chris Hughes, an aviation resource manager assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing’s squadron aviation resource management office, works on creating flight authorizations, Sept. 22, 2020, Boise, Idaho.

    Behind-the-scenes Airman keeps special mission flying

    Forty three 910th Airlift Wing Reserve Citizen Airmen traveled to Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Sept. 14–25, 2020, to aid in the installation’s fire prevention program by controlling cheatgrass, an invasive weed, on Saylor Creek Training Range.
  • A modified C-130 Hercules soars overhead as it prepares to spray herbicide at the Saylor Creek Training Range, Idaho, Sept. 17, 2016. The aircraft, from the 910th Airlift Wing, flys only 100 feet above the ground to spray aerial herbicide. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Connor J. Marth/Released)

    Teaming-up to take down an invader

    Idaho is home to thousands of acres of grassland teaming with sage brush, slickspot peppergrass and wheatgrass, but one species is claiming this unique landscape as its own.
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