Members of the 39th Aerial Port Squadron along with C-130 loadmasters assigned to the 731st AS push a U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System unit on to C-130H #94-7318 on August 2, 2015. It takes about three hours to load and configure the MAFFS unit in a C-130 aircraft. Two Air Force Reserve C-130s were called up to support the U.S. Forest Service wildland fire fighting efforts in California and the Northwestern U.S. [USAF photo SSgt. Nathan Federico]
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News: Reserve C-130s called up to fight wildland fires [2015-08-03]
The Air Force Reserve’s aerial fire-fighting unit was called up to join other Department of Defense assets to battle wildland fires in California and the Northwestern U.S. on August 1st.
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