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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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 910th entomologists conduct Aerial Spray Application Course

    A team of medical entomologists assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing’s 757th Airlift Squadron hosted a group of more than 20 pest management specialists from across the Department of Defense at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio for the Aerial Spray Application Course, May 3-6, 2021.

  • 910th hosts local chamber president

    The 910th Airlift Wing hosted Tom Humphries, president and CEO of the Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber, for a distinguished visitor tour of Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Nov. 23, 2020.

  • 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.

  • News Video: 910th flies hurricane recovery mosquito control ops in Louisiana

    A news video documenting Air Force Aerial Spray operations in southern Louisiana following Hurricanes Laura and Delta. Eighty-Five Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, have been operating from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, since Oct. 20 and

  • MASS C-130s fly evening missions in Louisiana

    A U.S. Air Force Reserve C-130H Hercules aircraft assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing, equipped with a Modular Aerial Spray System, is silhouetted by ground lights as it conducts nighttime mosquito control aerial spray operations over Lake Charles, Louisiana, in the aftermath of Hurricane Delta, Oct.

  • Industry leaders get closer look at 910th capabilities

    John Sankovic, president and CEO of the Ohio Aerospace Institute, and Howard Thompson, senior business development director at Greater Cleveland Partnership, visited the 910th Airlift Wing to learn about the unit’s capabilities. The 910th AW operates the Department of Defense’s only aerial spray

  • 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