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.
This pallet of baggage was being transfered onto the flight line when a recent Operational Readiness Excercise quickly turned into a real life evacuation due to tropical depression ten forming in the Atlantic. Tropical depressions can accelerate into tropical storms and then hurricanes. This storm threatened to send severe weather from the Florida panhandle westward through the Gulf Coast region. Airmen from the 433rd Airlift Wing and several reservists from the 403rd Airlift Wing were able to evacuate the excercise area within 12 hours. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Master Sgt. Collen McGee)
Members of the Alamo Wing filled about 1,700 sand bags during the time they were deployed for the Operational Readiness Excercise. A traffic cone with the top opening widened proved to be a valuable tool to speed the filing process. The excercise was cut short as a result of weather warnings that could have placed both aircraft and personnel at risk. Luckily, the storm did not build into hurricane force winds and all members of the wing, and the equipment they took with them were safely returned to Lackland within 12 hours. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Master Sgt. Collen McGee)
Reservists with the Alamo Wing board the C-130 to take them home after the Operational Readiness Excercise was called to a halt due to severe weather. The team managed to evacuate the area within 12 hours of the weather evacuation order. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Master Sgt. Collen McGee)