Air Force Reserve Command’s 302nd Airlift Wing test fired a Modular Airborne Firefighting System (MAFFS) II April 22 at its Peterson AFB, Colo., base in preparation for the 2010 wildfire season. The wing has sent some 115 operations and maintenance airmen to South Carolina this week for the US Forest Service’s MAFFS certification week at the South Carolina Technology and Aviation Center in Greenville. (302nd AW report by SSgt. Stephen Collier)
After years of serving as the bill-payer for other Pentagon priorities, munitions stockpiles are poised to get a major boost from the $150 billion reconciliation package unveiled by lawmakers in Congress this week, along with the defense industrial base to...