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  • Staff Sgt. David Martinez, 433rd Security Forces Squadron, is carrying the M-4 Weapon System with an M-203 Grenade Launcher attached. He?s sighting in on an enemy position while on a combat patrol during the recent Patriot Defender excercise at Camp Swift, near Bastrop, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Stacey Kruse)

    Defensor Fortis: Defenders of the force

    Forty members of the 433rd Security Forces Squadron returned from a challenging refresher training course called Patriot Defender, along with nearly 100 others from various wings throughout AFRC. The 433rd, along with the other units, participated in the two-week course at Camp Swift near Bastrop, Texas to maintain readiness in defending precious
  • Staff Sgt. Manuel Camacho, a small arms instructor with the 433rd Security Forces Squadron inspects a weapon after a qualifications course. Sergeant Camacho was one of two Alamo Wing members to participate in the Strickland competition in England. The team took second over all and placed first in the shooting competition. Sergeant Camacho participated last year also and will soon move to accept an active Guard and Reserve tour with the 610th Security Forces Squadron who hosts the competition team annually. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech Sgt. Collen McGee)

    Close Inspection

  • Reserve and active-duty air and medical crews joined to save the life of a 3-day-old military dependant. The boy was flow from Puerto Rico to Wilford Hall Medical Center July 20. The aeromedical evacuation crew was from the 433rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, the Reserve aircrew from the 446th Airlift Wing at McChord AFB, and an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygen Machine team was an active-duty medical crew from the 59th Medical Wing at Wilford Hall Medical Center. The units brought the boy to WHMC for life saving treatment. Pictured are Maj. (Dr.) Jeanette Gonzalez, left, a 859th Medical Operations Squadron pediatrician and Senior Airman Jayme McUlob, a 433rd AES medical technichian, right. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Bruce Hill, Jr.)

    Total Force effort saves 3-day-old infant

    The Parkers are a U.S. Coast Guard family stationed at San Juan, Puerto Rico. They were excited and happy about the birth of their second child and had a very normal delivery. That was until two hours after delivery when their newborn, Stuart Parker, began experiencing life threatening breathing complications that would send any loving father and
  • Chief Master Sgt. Gilbert Cuellar and other members of the 433rd Airlift Wing Hispanic Heritage Committee hosted the Mexican themed booth for the 2006 Mini Folklife Festival. The festival featured tastes and sounds from around the world including; Lebanon, Italy, Germany, Hawaii and Native American cultures. Reservists from the 433rd Airlift Wing represent a broad array of cultural backgrounds. The annual event happens during a single lunch period and coincides with the City of San Antonio's, week-long, Folklife Festival cultural celebration. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech. Sgt. Collen McGee)

    Diverse cultures merge in Reserve Wing

  • Staff. Sgt. Huizar gets hundreds of calls every day in the 433rd Airlift Wing Command Post. As a controller, it is his job to gather infortmation from several locations and make sure it gets to those who need it. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Maj. Elena Milford)

    Top Reserve command post named

    Aircraft arrive and depart. Events happen on schedule. Incidents arise to threaten the daily schedule. Problems get solved and the Wing continues to run like clockwork. There is someone behind the efforts. Someone has all the information and knows how to get the right people get the right information at the right time. The behind-the-scenes focal
  • Lt. Col. Mario Pastrano, a Health Services Administrator with the 433rd Airlift Wing, took some time on deployment day to explain to local reporters what he and his people will be responsible for during thier deployment. The Reservists will operate the Casualty Aeormedical Staging Facility at Balad AB, Iraq. It will be thier primary responsability to get the wounded out of Iraq and on to Germany or the US for more definitive care. The CASF at Balad will be the last stop in country for most of those wounded in Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Collen McGee)

    The partial predictability of war – in the cycle

    This is the first in a series of articles highlighting different careers and Alamo Wing people as they perform their duty under the Air and Space Expeditionary Force concept. In this series you will hear from different perspectives about the adaptation to deployed life and how the job compares to work at home station. Nearly 100 members of the
  • Lt. Col. Charles Combs, 433rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron commander, clears debri from the bottom of a gate leading onto the flight line during the May wing wide Foreign Object Damage Prevention walk. Members from every work center wandered parking lots, flight line areas and roadways picking up anything that could cause damage to tires, aircraft engines or harm personel. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Collen McGee)

    Alamo Wing walks the line

    You see them early in the morning before the fighters launch from the unit next door. Airmen, from the 149th Fighter wing, walking along the taxiway looking for foreign objects that could damage aircraft. In May, Alamo Wing Airmen took walking the line one step farther. Everyone from the newest airmen to the commanding general of the 433rd Airlift
  • Tech. Sgt. Anita Garcia is the 433rd Airlift Wing's Demand Reduction program manager. Her work, ensuring a less than one percent untestable rating, earned her recognition at the Department of Defense level. She will be presented her award, including a check for $2,500, at a ceremony in Washington DC this month. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Collen McGee)

    Reservist recognized for anti-drug victory

    Like the Global War on Terror, the war against drugs has more than one battlefield. The one closest to home is where one Reserve Airman chooses to make her battle stand. For her successful effort, she won a 2005 Government Employees Insurance Co. Military Service Award. Tech. Sgt. Anita Garcia is the 433rd Airlift Wing’s Demand Reduction program
  • Airman First Class Valente Carreon, 433rd Services Squadron, shows his co-workers the Babington Multi-fuel Burner (PMB) during a recent field training exercise. the PMB it is the newest cooking element available to Services in the field and replaces the previous single burner model. The PMB is part of the Single Pallet Expeditionary Kitchen. The SPEK is used to support early deployments with hot food. the SPEK was designed to prepare heat & serve Unitized Group Rations to 550 people. A team of eight Services folks can erect the platform and start feeding troops within a few hours after the arrival of rations and equipment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jonathan Simmons)

    New technology in field kitchens

  • A C-5 from the Air Force Reserve Command's 433rd Airlift Wing at a deployed location gets ready to depart on another mission in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (US Air Force Photo by Capt. Jeremy Angel, 357th Airlift Squadron)

    Sunset in Manas, Kyrgyzstan

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