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A C-130J Super Hercules from Youngstown Air Reserve Station drops a bundle over the Slagle Drop Zone at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center, Ohio, during an exercise, July 24, 2025.

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  • A well-grounded investment in aerial spray

    Safe to say, the success of every 910th Airlift Wing aerial spray mission in the sky begins and ends with aerial spray maintenance on the ground. In fact, the very same ground just upgraded in January 2025 in the 910th Aerial Spray Maintenance Flight building at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio.

  • Sustaining combat readiness

    Staff Sgt. Victoria Russo, a fuel systems specialist with the 910th Logistics Readiness Squadron, drags a fuel hose after refueling a C-130H Hercules at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, Sept. 12, 2024. In order to sustain combat readiness, fuel systems specialists are essential in refueling

  • Proof to pass the torch

    As the 910th Airlift Wing prepares to upgrade its aging C-130H Hercules fleet to the newer C-130J-30 Super Hercules model, testing was needed to determine if and how the new airframe could perform the Department of Defense’s only large-area fixed-wing aerial spray capability to control

  • Spray mission's future soars in test flight

    A C-130J-30 Super Hercules aircraft from Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, sprays water during a low pass at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, as part of a flight test of the 910th Airlift Wing's unique electronic modular aerial spray system, March 25, 2024. The flight test was performed to

  • Hercs on a misty morn

    A C-130H Hercules aircraft assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing takes off as the fog lifts at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, Jan. 25, 2024. The aircraft was preparing to take off for a training mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Eric M. White)

  • Work on the ground gets the wings in the air

    An aircrew assigned to the 757th Airlift Squadron taxis a C-130H Hercules aircraft on the flight line on Feb. 16, 2023, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio. The adaptable C-130 airframe enables Airmen to provide agile tactical airlift throughout diverse locations around the globe. (U.S. Air

  • No plane left behind

    The 910th Airlift Wing dispatched a maintenance recovery team to Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Jan. 9–20, 2023, on a mission to get their grounded aerial spray-capable C-130H Hercules aircraft up in the air again. 

  • Search for golden bolt keeps aircraft safe

    Air Force Reserve Chief Master Sgt. Paul Wagner, acting 910th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron superintendent, participates in a Foreign Object Damage (FOD) walk here, June 3, 2015. A FOD walk is done periodically on military installations to look for objects on the flight line that may damage

  • 910th aerial spray maintainers ready C-130 for UTTR mission

    Air Force Reserve Citizen Airmen, assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing's Aerial Spray Maintenance Flight, ready one of the wing's modified C-130H Hercules tactical cargo aircraft for an aerial spray sortie here, March 17, 2015. The sortie over target areas on the nearby Utah Test and Training Range

  • Youngstown Citizen Airmen ready for airdrop training flight

    Air Force Reserve aircrews and ground support personnel took advantage of a break in the recent harsh Ohio winter weather to ready an aircraft on the flightline here for an airdrop training mission, March 8, 2015. 757th Airlift Squadron aircrews flying C-130H Hercules tactical cargo transport