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Master Sgt. Kahleef Graham, a C-130H Hercules cargo aircraft loadmaster and a Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) operator assigned to the 757th Airlift Squadron, observes as Tech. Sgt. Richard Demchuk, a C-130H Hercules cargo aircraft loadmaster assigned to the 757th Airlift Squadron, goes through a functions checklist in a hangar here, April 3, 2016. Demchuk was completing a specialized certification to perform his dual role as a MASS operator for the Department of Defense’s only aerial spray capability. For more information about the 910th Airlift Wing’s Air Force Reserve special mission, click on the following link: http://www.youngstown.afrc.af.mil/About/FactSheets/Display/tabid/865/Article/178927/aerial-spray-mission.aspx (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr.)


Loadmasters train on aerial spray system

Master Sgt. Kahleef Graham, a C-130H Hercules cargo aircraft loadmaster and a Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) operator assigned to the 757th Airlift Squadron, observes as Tech. Sgt. Richard Demchuk, a C-130H Hercules cargo aircraft loadmaster assigned to the 757th Airlift Squadron, goes through a functions checklist in a hangar here, April 3, 2016. Demchuk was completing a specialized certification to perform his dual role as a MASS operator for the Department of Defense’s only aerial spray capability. For more information about the 910th Airlift Wing’s Air Force Reserve special mission, click on the following link: http://www.youngstown.afrc.af.mil/About/FactSheets/Display/tabid/865/Article/178927/aerial-spray-mission.aspx (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr.)

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Tech. Sgt. Tom Kocis, 910th Maintenance Squadron aerial spray maintainer, observes Tech. Sgt. Richard Demchuk, 757th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, operate the controls of a Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) in a hangar here, April 3, 2016. Demchuk was completing a specialized certification to perform his dual role as a MASS operator for the Department of Defense’s only aerial spray capability. For more information about the 910th Airlift Wing’s Air Force Reserve special mission, click on the following link: http://www.youngstown.afrc.af.mil/About/FactSheets/Display/tabid/865/Article/178927/aerial-spray-mission.aspx (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr.)
Tech. Sgt. Jeremy Rogers (center) and Tech. Sgt. Jess Strumbly, both aerial spray maintainers assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing’s aerial spray maintenance flight, talk with a participant of the Department of Defense Aerial Spray Certification Course on the cargo deck of one of the 910th’s specially-modified, aerial spray capable C-130 aircraft on the flightline at Page Field here, Jan. 12, 2016. The static display of the aircraft and aerial spray equipment was part of the four-day course, which is a certification requirement for pest management specialists involved in the aerial spraying of products designed to destroy disease-carrying creatures. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Bob Barko Jr.)
Air Force Reserve Tech. Sgt. Tom Neiswanger, a 910th Airlift Wing Aerial Spray Maintainer, operates the control panel of the Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) on the cargo deck aboard a modified C-130H Hercules tactical cargo aircraft, assigned to the 910th based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, on the flightline here in preparation for an aerial spray sortie, March 17, 2015. Neiswanger and other members of the 910th’s Aerial Spray Maintenance Flight are loading the aircraft’s MASS with a herbicide which was sprayed over the nearby Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), eliminating unwanted ground covering weeds which can obscure target sites and Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) on bombing ranges. The 910th Airlift Wing is home to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) only large-area fixed wing aerial spray capability and dedicated aerial spray maintenance flight.
Air Force Reserve Staff Sgt. Thaddeus Root, a 910th Airlift Wing Aerial Spray Maintainer, checks the contents in a tank of the Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) on the cargo deck aboard a modified C-130H Hercules tactical cargo aircraft, assigned to the 910th based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, on the flightline here in preparation for an aerial spray sortie, March 17, 2015. Root and other members of the 910th’s Aerial Spray Maintenance Flight are loading the aircraft’s MASS with a herbicide which was sprayed over the nearby Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), eliminating unwanted ground covering weeds which can obscure target sites and Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) on bombing ranges. The 910th Airlift Wing is home to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) only large-area fixed wing aerial spray capability and dedicated aerial spray maintenance flight.