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

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

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.

Going to the ballpark

Reserve flying squadron inactivates

  The 356th Airlift Squadron furl and cased its squadron guidon during a small ceremony June 3 as the unit will inactivate on June 30. The ceremony was held this pasted drill weekend for reservists to participate and say good-bye.      “The squadron leaves a tremendous legacy,” said Brig. Gen. Bruce

Distinguished flying career comes to the end for the C-141 fleet

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio - A distinguished career came to a finish here May 6. After 43 years and approximately 10.6 million flying hours, the last C-141 Starlifter in the fleet completed its mission, landing at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, its permanent

Former Vietnam POWs take to the air again

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio - Members of the Air Force Reserve 445th Airlift Wing had the distinct honor of interacting with about 120 former POWs May 5 and 6. The men were invited by the wing to Wright-Patterson for a re-enactment of the 1973 flights that took the men from brutal

Former Vietnam POWs to take flight on last C-141 "Hanoi Taxi"

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB Ohio -- Over one-hundred former Vietnam Prisoners of War are flying on the last scheduled flight aboard the only remaining active C-141 Starlifter aircraft, the "Hanoi Taxi." On May 5, former Vietnam POWs will climb aboard the last C-141 for a flight over Dayton, Ohio. The

Reservists C-STARS for training

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio -- Six members from the 445th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron had the opportunity to attend 14 days of medical training at the University Hospital of Cincinnati. Wearing medical scrub with only a name tag and rank pinned on their breast pocket to identify them with the Air

Wing members evacuate patients from Rita's path

A C-141 aircraft from the 445th Airlift Wing returned late Sept. 24 from Beaumont, Texas, the Southeast Texas Regional Airport, where the plane and its crew evacuated 59 patients from the path of Hurricane Rita. “We were the last plane, period, out of Beaumont,” said Lt. Col. Steve Bastian, one of