“The request for additional support shows just how challenging this fire season is and how critical our MAFFS aircraft, aircrews and maintenance personnel are to supporting NIFC [National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho].”-Colonel Jeremy Ford, 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard
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After more than a year and a half of pandemic-panic-attack operations, the Arizona Army National Guard (AZNG) is also dealing with flooding in Coconino County.
AZNG photo by Staff Sergeant Adrian Borunda.AZNG video by Staff Sergeant Adrian Borunda, road repair in Coconino County, 22JUL2021:
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Spangdahlem Air Base personnel volunteer to help with flood clean-up in Kyllburg and Auw an der Kyll, 14 -16 July 2021.
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley.USAF video by Master Sergeant Laura Beckley, clean-up operations in Auw an der Kyll, 16JUL2021:
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At the beginning of June 2021, Canadian fire trucks rolled onto New York’s Niagara Falls International Airport where they were loaded onto a U.S. Air Force (USAF) C-5M Super Galaxy transport and flown to Nicaragua.
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On Tuesday last week, I went for a stroll along the Boise River here in Boise, Idaho. To my delight, all the plants have tripled in size since I saw them last, about two months ago. They’ve grown considerably; the bare gravel river banks are now nearly covered in […] Continue Reading…
In July 2021, Sentimental Journey returned to the Pocatello Regional Airport, in Southeast Idaho. It seems I always cross paths with this ancient restored aircraft, from the two decades when it was flown by the Confederate Air Force, to today’s Commemorative Air Force (just call it CAF).
Topping off the tanks.
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When the wildfire season officially starts in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, little used Pocatello Regional Airport becomes Pocatello Airtanker Base.
Idaho Wildfires 2012:
Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, 2012.CANADAIR CL 215
This year (despite the hype by main-stream national news), and the past few years, Pocatello Airtanker Base hasn’t been […] Continue Reading…
On 20JUL2021, an old F-4C Phantom-2 found a new home in front […] Continue Reading…
“As we were developing our enclosure, we realized there was likely the need to tailor it to military specifications, such as being able to attach it to a gurney and to develop portable vacuum pump. The need to adapt our technology to DoD needs aligned with the […] Continue Reading…