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  • Master Sgt. Robert Kusterer, a 68th Airlift Squadron C-5 flight engineer, was awarded the Air Force Association 2007 Reservist of the Year award. (U.S. Air Force Courtesy Photo)

    Flight engineer named Reservist of the Year

  • Reservists from the Alamo Wing recently went through a deployment processing line as part of an excercise. The 433rd Airlift Wing Reserve members will again go through this line in December while being inspected by the Air Mobility Command Inspector General Team on thier ability to deploy, operate under possible hostile conditions and then redeploy to home station. Alamo Wing members are no stranger to deployments in support of current operations and will send about 100 volunteer Airmen into the u.S. Central Commans Area of Responsability in support of GWOT operations in January.

    Excercise turns into evacuation

  • Tech. Sgt. Hugo Gamarra, a military training instructor with the Air Force Reserve's 433rd Airlift Wing at Lackland AFB, Texas, was chosen as the Military Training Instructor of the Year, Reservist category, for 2007. (U.S. Air Force Courtesy Photo)

    Reserve Training Instructor gets top honors

    Some people say if you don't use it, you lose it when it comes to professional skills. Some people don't know the Military Training Instructor of the Year, Reservist category, for 2007. A lot of things can happen in nearly a decade. In fact, time can make life a whole lot sweeter. Take one basic military instructor who left the Air Force and
  • Reservists Remember. Members of the Alamo Wing gathered at 9 A.M. to observe a shared moment of remembrance and silence for the men and women who lost their lives during the worst terror attack on U.S. soil since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Reservists like those in the 433rd Airlift Wing play a vital part in the Global War on Terror. Many missions are Reserve dominated such as, port mortuary affairs, aeromedical evacuation and cargo handling. Alamo Wing Reservists are currently serving in volunteer positions throughout the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility and nearly 100 wing members are currently scheduled to deploy in January of 2008. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Master Sgt. Collen McGee)

    We Remember You

  • Hail, farewell to four Alamo Wing chiefs

    Some say life begins at retirement. If so, four Chief Master Sergeants from the 433rd Airlift Wing just started living on the August B Unit Training Assembly. With 138 years of experience between them, Chiefs Ronald Csehil, Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, retires with nearly 42 years of service, Robert Hastie, 74th Aerial Port Squadron, almost 41
  • Major Janet Wickline, a Reservist with the 433rd Medical Squadron and Lilliana Castro, an R.N. at Southwest General Hospital check on the status of Ramon Ochoa, a patient in the hospital. Major Wickline is one of several Alamo Wing medical professionals serving on annual tour at Southwest General Hospital. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Amn. Viola Hernandez)

    Reserve, civilian medical pros build bridge

    It is possible to have the best of both worlds in the medical field. Patients in San Antonio's Southwest General Hospital know what that is. A new program has 46 Reservists from the 433rd Airlift Wing's Medical Squadron completing annual 15-day training periods working with civilian providers at Southwest General Hospital. The medical professionals

  • Tuition assistance programs aid degree quest

    A new education program called the Air University Associate to Baccalaureate Cooperative, or AU-ABC, started in June. The program offers members of the Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard the opportunity to transfer all Community College of the Air Force credits towards the pursuit a Baccalaureate degree at participating

  • Reserve Training Instructor gets top honors

    Some people say if you don't use it, you lose it when it comes to professional skills. Some people don't know the Military Training Instructor of the Year, Reservist category, for 2007. A lot of things can happen in nearly a decade. In fact, time can make life a whole lot sweeter. Take one basic military instructor who left the Air Force and

  • C-5 Tail 306 Returns Home As Cargo-Load Trainer

    Irreparable structural damage doomed C-5 Galaxy tail 68306 to the boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Ariz.  But in May of 2007, it returned to the 433rd Airlift Wing parking ramp.  Although the aircraft--originally  assigned to the Alamo Wing's initial C-5 fleet--will never fly missions or carry this country's leaders around the globe

  • Leaning forward might cause a splash

    Employers, both military and civilian, continually encourage workers to lean forward to the future for the good of the company. For one Airman, leaning into the future caused him to get wet. But that was the plan. As an Air Force Reservist, Col. Josef Schmid is the commander of the 433rd Medical Squadron and a flight doctor. In his civilian career,
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