News Releases

  • ALAMO WING RECEIVES FIRST C-5A WITH MODERNIZED AVIONICS

    The 433rd Airlift Wing has received its first Avionics Modernization Program, or AMP'd, C-5A. The program takes the C-5A flight deck instrumentation and updates the controls to modern digital instruments. Aircraft #68-000214 is the 47th C-5A Galaxy to undergo the upgrade. AMP upgrades are planned

  • ALAMO WING ENTERS THE ‘TWEET’ LIFE

    Updates about the Air Force Reserve Command's 433rd Airlift Wing are now available through Twitter. "Twitter is fast becoming the way to communicate with people who are interested in what we are up too," says Master Sgt. Collen McGee, Superintendent of the 433rd AW Public Affairs office. "It is

  • LACKLAND AIR FORCE RESERVISTS RETURN FROM AFGHANISTAN

    Almost 30 Reserve Airmen from the 433rd Civil Engineer Squadron are scheduled to return from Afghanistan beginning Sunday, Sept. 21. The CES squadron deployed with Reservists from New York to create the first Prime BEEF, Prime Base Emergency Engineer Force. While deployed, the Texas Airmen did

  • Two new squadrons at Lackland’s Alamo Wing

    Two new squadrons associated with the 433rd Airlift Wing will hold their official activation ceremony today at 10:00 a.m. The new squadrons are part of the C-5 Formal Training Unit at Lackland AFB's Kelly Field. The C-5 FTU officially began operation in November of last year. The units previously

  • Local children to attend pre-deployment picnic, present gifts to troops

    Local school 6th graders from Church Hill Elementary school in New Braunfels, Texas, spent time recently collecting items to send to American troops fighting the Global War on Terror. When they were done, they found the cost of shipping those items posed a challenge. So, Ms. Hillary Hoben, a school

  • Alamo Wing becomes official C-5 training headquarters

    The Air Force Reserve's Alamo Wing officially became the C-5 Galaxy go-to unit. If it has to do with simulators, flight qualification or classes to become a C-5 pilot, engineer or loadmaster, Lackland's Kelly Field is now the only place to go. Air crew members from Active-duty, Reserve and Air

  • Reservists return from duty at Air Force hospital in Iraq

    About 30 Air Force Reservists from the 433rd Airlift Wing are scheduled to return to San Antonio Tuesday, after a four month deployment to the Air Force Theater Hospital in Iraq's Balad Air Base. The Reservists are all members of the 433rd Airlift Wing and specialize in patient care and transport.

  • Reserve unit organization awards two scholarships

    Ms. Daizha Gallos, a student at the University of Texas' San Antonio campus, and Senior Airman Bernadette Hernandez, each received a scholarship from the Alamo Wing's Hispanic Heritage Committee on September 15 at the annual Alamo Wing Hispanic Heritage Committee scholarship awards luncheon. Ms.

  • LACKLAND RESERVE MOBILE CIVIL ENGINEERS TO RETURN

    Thirty-seven reservists from the 307th Red Horse Squadron (RHS) are returning home to San Antonio International Airport via commercial air on Sat., Jan. 14, 2006. The Reservists, all members of the 307th Red Horse Squadron attached to the 433rd Airlift Wing, were deploying first to Fort McCoy, Wis.,

  • LACKLAND RESERVE UNIT LAUNCHES NEW PUBLIC WEB SITE

    The Air Force Reserve’s 433rd Airlift Wing has a new way to get current information out to the media, our neighbors in the San Antonio area and the world. This week the wing launched its new public web site. The page is full of current information about the Alamo Wing and the missions its members