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  • YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio—Four hydraulic lifts raise an 86,000 pound C-130 aircraft entirely off the floor of an aircraft maintenance hangar here Dec. 19, 2006. The aircraft was raised for the purpose of changing the nose landing gear strut as part of an isochronal inspection. U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Bryan Ripple.

    Lift Off

  • YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio—Employees like Mr. Bill Baxter, a warehouse specialist with East Inc., provide critical Base Operating Support functions to the 910th Airlift Wing such as managing the base supply system. Mr. Baxter, a resident of Howland, Ohio retired from the Air Force Reserve here in 1993 with 21 years of total military service. He also served with the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War from 1970-1973 while assigned to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Forrestal. Mr. Baxter also retired here as an employee of the federal government in 2000 after 26 years of service. U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Bryan Ripple.

    Dedicated Service

  • YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio—Employees like Mr. Tori Nelson, a warehouse specialist with East Inc., provide critical Base Operating Support functions to the 910th Airlift Wing. Mr. Nelson, a resident of Youngstown, Ohio has been employed here for six years. "It's interesting being on the inside where troop support begins in base supply," said Mr. Nelson. "The base is a great place to train our reservists," he said. U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Bryan Ripple.

    Base Operating Support

  • YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio — Air Force Reserve Senior Airman Aisha Graham, a logistics technician with the 910th Logistics Readiness Squadron, scans a shipment of incoming supply items at the base supply shipping/receiving warehouse here Dec. 19, 2006. Airman Graham joined the 910th in December 2004 and is attending Akron University pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice and Political Science. U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Bryan Ripple.

    Logistics Readiness

  • YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio -- Air Force Reserve Master Sgt. Kenneth E. Calhoun, crew chief on C-130 aircraft 92-3021 since 1993, retired from the Air Force Reserve Dec. 2, 2006 after 28 years of military service. The aircraft was nicknamed the "Un-Touch-A-Bull" by a high official of the Sioux Indian Nation during a Jan. 9, 1997 ceremony in Nashville, Tenn. prior to a humanitarian mission to deliver 30,200 pounds of donated food to the Sioux Indians in South Dakota. U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Bryan Ripple.

    After 28 years of service with three branches of the military, the crew chief of aircraft 92-3021, the 'Un-Touch-A-Bull' retires

    Master Sgt. Kenneth E. Calhoun, crew chief for aircraft 92-3021, also known as "Un-Touch-A-Bull," has worn three different uniforms during his 28-year military career. The one he wore during his Dec. 2 retirement ceremony here was Air Force blue with a chest full of military decorations honoring his various military accomplishments over the years.
  • KUWAIT CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Kuwait--Air Force Reserve Tech. Sgt. Chad Brown, a safety technician from the 910th Airlift Wing at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, has worked with some of the firefighters at the airport here during his Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment. His deployed assignment is with the 5th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron near here. Courtesy photo.

    Wing Safety Airman experiences his most memorable Thanksgiving

    For most people, Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for their families, good health, friends, jobs, and countless other things with meaning to them. Many gather around their dining room tables at home for a big feast with all the family's favorite holiday trimmings. A lot of people spent the entire holiday season deployed a long way from home
  • YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio--Air Force Reserve Senior Master Sgt. William A. Rooks Jr., chief of Aerial Spray Maintenance at the time, is greeted by his wife Korene after his last aerial spray mission May 28, 2004. Sergeant Rooks is known as the pioneer of aerial spray maintenance, transferring to Youngstown Air Reserve Station from Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus, Ohio with the spray mission in 1991. U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Ken Sloat

    The love lives on

    Senior Master Sgt. William A. Rooks Jr., well known as a pioneer of aerial spray maintenance, retired during a Dec. 2 ceremony here after an honorable 35-year career with the Air Force and Air Force Reserve. Sergeant Rooks was born in the southwestern Ohio town of Greenfield. His dad served in the Air Force during World War 11 as a radio operator
  • THE GULF OF MEXICO – As spectators and crew members on the deck of the Marine Spill Response Corporation’s Southern Responder enjoy their front row seats, a C-130 skims over a simulated oil slick marked by bright green dye. The colored water being sprayed by the C-130 simulates an oil dispersant. The C-130H is assigned to the Air Force Reserve Command’s 910th Airlift Wing, located at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio. It was participating in an oil dispersant exercise being held six miles off the shore of Galveston, Texas, Nov. 8, 2006.

    Oil's well that ends well

    Crossing below a horizon dotted with offshore oil rigs and cargo ships, an Air Force Reserve C-130 swoops down to just 100 feet above the water. It lines up on a bright green slick on the water and seconds later begins spraying a pink liquid from the aerial spray boom protruding from its rear paratroop doors. If this had been a real oil spill
  • YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio -- About 75 Air Force Reservists from the 910th Airlift Wing here deployed to Ramstein AB, Germany Oct. 2 on an Operation Joint Forge deployment. This was the first of three groups of more than 200 aircrew members and aircraft maintenance technicians deploying to provide C-130 troop and cargo movement to U.S. forces serving in the European theater and African Union troops in the Darfur region of Sudan. The rotations will continue through mid November 2006. U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Bryan Ripple

    910th rejoins Joint Forge Deployment

  • YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio -- This tent stake was not going to give any trouble to Air Force Reserve Senior Airman Dale Anderson, an electrical power production journeyman here, during the 910th Civil Engineer Squadron's annual bivouac Sep. 9-10. U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Bryan Ripple.

    910th Civil Engineers "rough it" during annual bivouac

    About 25 reservists from the 910th Civil Engineer Squadron participated in the unit's annual bivouac training exercise during the September UTA. The event provided them with a training opportunity to put up two GP medium tents and a temper tent during camp setup.Some of the other training the unit members received included fire extinguishers, field
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