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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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  • 910th commander flies into retirement after 38-year career

    Col. Jeff Van Dootingh, 910th Airlift Wing commander, is flying off into retirement, wrapping up a 38-year Air Force career. As a C-130 navigator, he spent more than half of his career at the 910th Airlift Wing at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, the place he calls home.

  • Video: Joint Base Charleston pesticide mission

    The 910th Airlift Wing conducted an aerial spray pesticide mission to eliminate mosquitos in and around Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, May 16, 2023. Based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, the 910th Airlift Wing maintains the Department of Defense’s only large area, fixed-wing aerial

  • Blue Tigers hunt at dusk

    The 757th Airlift Squadron preyed upon the salt marsh mosquitoes of Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, on May 16, 2023.

  • Operation Limelight

    More than 50 Reserve Citizen Airmen assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing conducted annual aircrew water survival training from April 18-21, 2023, at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida.

  • Operation Limelight Videos

    Youngstown Air Reserve Station aircrew members assigned to the 757th Airlift Squadron attended water survival training, on April 19, 2023, at Key West, Florida. Fliers are required refresher training every three years.

  • Flightline business

    A C-17 Globemaster III aircraft assigned to the 911th Airlift Wing, Pittsburgh, takes off at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio on April 25, 2023. Aircrew from the 911th AW practiced tactical flying operations on Youngstown ARS’s flightline and in Trumbull County’s uncongested airspace. (U.S. Air

  • The dawn of YARS’s electronic aerial spray

    The 910th Airlift Wing’s aerial spray team returned to Hill Air Force Base, March 6-17, 2023, for its annual aerial spray mission at the Utah Test and Training Range to create fire breaks for wildfire prevention and safe unexploded ordnance removal. But this year’s product sprayed just a bit faster

  • From students to cadre

    Security forces Defenders from multiple units across Air Force Reserve Command participated in a four-mile ruck march on March 6, 2023, at Boston Mill, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio.

  • New commander for next-level Defenders

    “To the men and women of the 910th Security Forces Squadron, from the day I set out to earn my commission, my goal was to become a security forces commander. Your superior performance is why I’ve been entrusted to lead this squadron. Thank you. I owe every single one of you a huge debt that I’m