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  • 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
  • Dayton International Airport -- An estimated 80,000 spectators visited the Dayton Air Show July 29 and 30. Thousands of them walked through the C-5 Galaxy aircraft and talked to aircrew and aeromedical members onboard about their mission. (U.S. Air Force Reserve Photo by Maj. Ted Theopolos).

    Spectators view wing’s C-5 Galaxy at Dayton Air Show

  • Driver Bill Braack and designer Scott Hammack (far right) move the Air Force Reserve Jet Car into place ouside of Fifth Third Field in downtown Dayton, Ohio as spectators look on. (U.S. Air Force Reserve photo by 1Lt. Erica Donahoe)

    Out to the ballgame

  • Flight Engineer, Tech. Sgt. Tammy Goble from the 89th Airlift Squadron, prepares a C-5 Galaxy for take-off at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. It is the first C-5 overseas mission to Ramstien Air Base, Germany for the 89th since the retirement of the C-141 Starlifter this past May. (U.S. Air Force Reserve photo by Senior Airman Martin Moleski.)

    Wing battles obstacles, accomplishes first C-5 mission

    Just two months since the C-141 retirement, reservists embarked on the first C-5 mission from here July 19 to Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Along with aircraft commander Maj. Mike Baker, members of the 89th Airlift Wing battled through the never-ending heat and flew tail number 00-461 to Dover Air Force Base, Del., where 25 pallets, weighing nearly
  • Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S.D. -- Medical technician Tech. Sgt. Anthony Gallela (right) from the 445th Aeromedical Staging Squadron helps emergency medical technicians prepare to transport a Native American to Pine Ridge hospital for treatment. A small medical contingency from the 445th ASTS are there for their annual tour training. (U.S. Air Force Reserve photo by Maj. Ted Theopolos)

    Medical reservists deploys to provide healthcare to Native Americans

    Just on the spurs of the Black Hills in South Dakota is an Indian Reservation called Pine Ridge. The reservation is home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe, decedents from the Great Sioux Nation. The reservation covers about 2.8 million acres and has a tribal membership of approximately 17,775.One of the main cities, Pine Ridge, is just 50 miles east of the
  • Lt. Col. Scott "Painless" Sayre, a dentist with the 445th Aerospace Medicine Squadron is seated in his Beech T-38 Mentor on the flightline at the Freedom Fest air show in Goshen, Indiana, July 1, gets ready for the Lima Lima Flight Team formation and aerobatic performance while another plane flies overhead. (U.S. Air Force Reserve Photo by Tech. Sgt. Charlie Miller)

    Reserve dentist pulls Gs instead of teeth on weekends

    Air Force Reserve dentist Lt. Col. Scott Sayre regularly trades his dental instruments and dentist chair for a pilot's seat and cockpit flight instruments, but not on a wing C-5 Galaxy. The colonel flies a Beech T-34 Mentor with the Lima Lima Flight Team, a precision formation flying group. Col. Sayre, who has been with the 445th Aerospace Medicine
  • Air Force Reserve recruiters and members from the 445th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron set-up displays in front of 5/3 Baseball Field in downtown Dayton, Ohio for visitors coming to the ballpark to check out Reserve possibilities. (U.S. Air Force Reserve Photo by Maj. Ted Theopolos)

    Going to the ballpark

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