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  • 433rd Civil Engineer Squadron members meet for a virtual unit training assembly May 3, 2020 using an online collaboration service.

    433rd AW overcomes COVID-19 challenges

    The 433rd Airlift Wing here has spent the last three months successfully innovating new ways to accomplish the mission due to the restrictions posed by the pandemic of COVID-19.
  • Staff Sgt. Aaron Antu, 433rd Logistics Readiness Squadron ground transportation operator, sanitizes a transportation vehicle being used to transport basic military training trainees who are being monitored for COVID-19 to and from medical facilities, May 21, 2020 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.

    Reserve Citizen Airmen help transportation efforts amid coronavirus pandemic

    Reserve Citizen Airmen with the 433rd Airlift Wing’s Logistic Readiness Squadron, were called to duty to assist with transportation efforts impacted by the current coronavirus pandemic in and around Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
  • Patriot Palm

    Joint emergency response exercise showcases capabilities of Air Force Reserve, 315th Contingency Response Flight

    Three Air Force Reserve Contingency Response units, along with partners from the U.S. Army, Army Reserve, National Guard, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and FBI teamed up to put their emergency response capabilities to the test during exercise Patriot Palm, held here Jan. 27-30, 2020.
  • A team of Airmen from the 315th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, S.C., trained in rapid response deployment scenarios during exercise Patriot Palm with joint-service members from the Marines, Coast Guard, Army, and FBI Jan. 27-30, 2020, at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Hawaii. One of the key players in the exercise was the 315th Contingency Response Flight, which is part of the 315 AW. Starting from a bare base, CRF units are meant to set up an operating airfield within only hours.

    Ready, set, respond-315AW Airmen train in tropics

    A team of Airmen from the 315th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, S.C., trained in rapid response deployment scenarios during exercise Patriot Palm with joint-service members from the Marines, Coast Guard, Army, and FBI Jan. 27-30, 2020, at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Hawaii. One of the key players in the exercise was the 315th Contingency Response Flight, which is part of the 315 AW. Starting from a bare base, CRF units are meant to set up an operating airfield within only hours.
  • Exercise Patriot Sands 2020

    Contingency response experts practice teamwork at Patriot Sands

    About 500 Airmen, Soldiers, Coast Guardsmen, FBI personnel, and Florida International University’s Florida Advanced Surgical Transport team volunteers trained together on contingency response over five days in Exercise Patriot Sands Feb. 20-23, 2020, here. Contingency response personnel around the globe teamed up on the east Florida coast to refine their emergency response capabilities during the exercise, training on a host of different aircraft platforms including the C-17 Globemaster III, C-5M Super Galaxy, KC-135 Stratotanker, C-130 Hercules, Army HH-60 Pave Hawk, and Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin.
  • Col. Wayne M. Williams, 433rd Mission Support Group commander, hands the 26th Aerial Port Squadron guidon to Lt. Col. Eric L. Chancellor signaling his squadron command assumption.

    Lt Col Chancellor takes command of 26 APS

    Col. Wayne M. Williams, 433rd Mission Support Group commander, officiated the change of command ceremony where Lt. Col. Clifford B. Harris relinquished command of the 26th Aerial Port Squadron to Lt. Col. Eric L. Chancellor here Oct. 5.
  • Tech. Sgt. Daniel Johnson, 433th Contingency Response Flight communications specialist, attaches a panel to a Small Package Initial Communications Equipment unit during preparation for exercise Swift Response, June 8, 2019, at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

    Reserve Citizen Airmen participate in Swift Response 2019

    Thirty-three Alamo Wing members participated in Exercise Swift Response 2019, a six-week long event across Europe, which concluded in June.
  • Air Force Staff Sgt. Wayne Burke, 26th Aerial Port Squadron air transportation specialist, instructs Army Private First Class Shakirra Hoyte, 13th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, on how to secure a vehicle for air transportation in a C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft March 2, 2019 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.

    Army trains with 433rd Airlift Wing during Operation Lunar Phantom

    Thirty-nine active-duty soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas, participated in Operation Lunar Phantom, a joint air-load exercise with 433rd Airlift Wing Reserve Citizen Airmen loadmasters and aerial porters here March 1-3.
  • 1st Lt. Adam Brewer (left), Tech. Sgt. Steven Rose and Senior Airman Jeremiah Mata, 26th Aerial Port Squadron, aerial transportation technicians, provide a thumbs-up

    'Port Dawgs' team with 'Alamo Dustoff' for nighttime helicopter missions

    For the second time in as many months, a joint air-ground team soared across the nighttime skies of San Antonio Oct. 12 in a scene reminiscent of a Hollywood action blockbuster. On the heels of a mirror-image mission that took place Aug. 22, Airmen from the 26th Aerial Port Squadron trained with the “Alamo Dustoff” Soldiers of Company C, 2-149 Aviation Regiment, Texas Army National Guard, and an active duty pathfinder team for the tactical day and nighttime helicopter extraction and insertion of disaster-relief supplies and personnel.
  • Staff Sgt. John M Shue, 26th Aerial Port Squadron air transportation specialist, greets his fiance Mara Hetrick at the San Antonio International Airport after returning from deployment to Southwest Asia Oct. 12, 2018.

    Reserve Citizen Airmen return from deployment

    More than 20 Air Force Reserve Citizen Airmen returned from a deployment to Southwest Asia Oct. 12, 2018.
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