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  • Cincinnati, Ohio – A C-5 Galaxy aircraft from the Air Force Reserve's 445th Airlift Wing located at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio fly’s over Dorl Field in Norwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, to start the ceremony for “The Wall That Heals” on November 9th. The traveling Vietnam Wall will be there over Veteran's Day weekend. The travel wall started in 1984 travels to 22 to 28 cities a year and is visited by several thousand people at each spot. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Maj. Ted Theopolos).

    Paying tribute

  • WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio -- Air Force reservists from the 445th Airlift Wing get exposed to gases inside the mask confidence training facility. Chemical warfare training is required for most reservists assigned to the wing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Charlie Miller).

    Getting gassed

    Despite burning throats, watering eyes, and runny noses; members of the 445th Airlift Wing emerged from the mask confidence training facility or gas chamber with a new appreciation for their chemical warfare equipment. October's Chemical Warfare training class was the first to implement a return to the gas chamber, and the November class was the
  • WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio -- Firefighter SrA Glen Beddies Jr., from the 445th Civil Engineer Squadron's Fire Protection Flight dons his mask before entering a dense smoke filled building. The airman was one of seven firefighters who had to work as a team to ascertain the situation upon arriving at the scene then safely and quickly save those inside and then put out the fire. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech. Sgt. Charlie Miller).

    Firefighter training

  • WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio -- Fifteen new Air Force Reserve recruits pose with 445th Airlift Wing recruiters in the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The new recruits just took their oath into the Air Force Reserve from Brig. Gen. Bruce E. Davis, commander of the 445th AW who thanked them for joining and stated they are all potential Chief Master Sergeants. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Doug Moore).

    New Recruits

  • WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio -- Eighty-six pairs of boots surround the semi-circle flag pole area at the Air Force Reserve's 445th Airlift Wing headquarters building. Each pair of boots represents 86 Ohioans still unaccounted for from the Vietnam era. The 87th pair of desert boots in the middle of the circle represents Pfc. Matt Maupin who is still missing from Operation Iraqi Freedom. On the right boot is his rank and name and on the left is his hometown in Ohio. Each pair of boots is tied together and is adorned with a small American flag and POW/MIA flag crossed and tied with a small yellow ribbon. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Ted Theopolos).

    Silent Tribute

  • 445th Logistics Readiness Squadron

    Logistics reservists augment Ramstein Air Base, Germany

    With the escalating chaos throughout the world and recent deployments of more active-duty Airmen, reservists from Wright-Patterson are stepping up to the challenge and using their skills to accomplish the mission. Servicemembers from the 445th Logistics Readiness Squadron deployed to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, July 7-21 to boost a short-handed
  • WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Senior Master Sgt. William Spradlin, first sergeant, 445th Security Forces Squadron, explains wing exercise scenarios to employers Sept. 9, 2006. More than 25 employers accompanied their reservists here to get a glimpse of life as a reservist and wing missions. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Master Sgt. Doug Moore)

    445th Airlift Wing hosts reservists' employers

    As civilian employers rolled through the gates at O-Dark Thirty, Sept. 9, they had the first glimpse of what their employees experience every Unit Training Assembly weekend; waking early on a Saturday to go to work while their families are home, warm in bed. However, met with coffee and bagels and welcomed by Brig. Gen. Bruce Davis, 445 Airlift
  • WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio -- Col. Brian Dominguez, 445th Airlift Wing vice commander, addresses military and civilians at a Patriot Day ceremony in front of the wing's headquarters. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Ted Theopolos).

    Honoring Patriot Day

    The 445th Airlift Wing gathered today, September 11, to remember the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks September 11, 2001. The ceremony was a somber event with threatening clouds looming overhead that added to the soberness of the day. The day was an important opportunity for the wing to reflect on its part in the global war on terror.
  • Patients were loaded on a Air Force Reserve C-141 from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio to be evacuated to safety. Medical crews were innovated in transporting litter patients from Concourse D in the airport terminal to the aircraft on luggage carts. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Maj. Ted Theopolos)

    Hurricane Katrina one year ago

  • ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD. -- Staff Sgt. Keith Beckerich, 445th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, talks with a patient on a C-130. Squadron members have been stationed here and are completing their fourth, four-month rotation this month as the primary AES for the distribution of patients returning to the United States from Ramstein Air Base, Germany. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Doug Moore).

    Reservists receive patients coming and going

    Mobilized and volunteer members of the 445th Airlift Wing's Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron,Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, currently stationed at Andrews AFB, Md., are completing their fourth four-month rotation in August as the primary AES for the distribution of patients returning to the U.S from Ramstein AB, Germany. "We recover patients coming
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