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  • Mission Control keeps it all on track

    Combat airlift can be a fickle beast, to say the least. Providing airlift support for two combat regions, distributing relief aid to various countries of the world, and maintaining training all require a certain amount of flexibility. Keeping tabs on the missions assigned to 446th Airlift Wing

  • Flying into the Deep Freeze

    McChord pilots, loadmasters and maintainers have wrapped Phase III of Operation Deep Freeze, having ferried supplies for the National Science Foundation between New Zealand and Antarctica. Crews from the 446th and 62nd Airlift Wings operated Phase III Dec. 16 through March 1. Operation Deep Freeze

  • Wing earns outstanding unit award

    The accumulative efforts of the men and women of the 446 Airlift Wing have resulted in the wing receiving the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award. Each member assigned to the wing from Oct. 1, 2003 through Sept. 30, 2005 is a recipient of this award. “This has been a long-deserved award for the wing;

  • MSS deploys to Southwest Asia

    Five members of the 446th Mission Support Squadron deployed to Southwest Asia Dec. 25 in support of the Global War on Terrorism. The deployment is to support the Air Expeditionary Force and will include two more MSS Reservists in the following months. All of the people who deployed from MSS

  • Wing passes safety inspection

    The 446th Airlift Wing stomped the tri-annual Ground, Weapons and Flight Safety Program Evaluation Dec. 12 through 15, receiving satisfactory overall scores across the board. The weapons safety program headed by Senior Master Sgt. David Ponce, shined the brightest during the inspection. It received

  • Rain or shine, weater affects missions

    No matter where we are or what  the season, weather affects the 446th Airlift Wing’s daily activities. To keep Reservists up-to-date on weather situations, McChord’s 62nd Operational Support Squadron’s eight-person team works around the clock. “We provide and support all weather-related operations

  • Wing bands together to help Airman in need

    Airman First Class Donivan Crews has only been with the 446th AW since October, but he is already a celebrity. “I was coming in the gate the other day and the dude was like, ‘Wait a second, I’ve seen you before.’ I’ve heard that a million times lately,” said Airman Crews, 86th Aerial Port

  • Unit prepares for ORI

    Operational readiness inspection is an often dreaded event that prompts many months of planning for some, and several days of scrutiny for others. ORIs are nothing new for the 446th Airlift Wing, as the unit is just off the heels of one such inspection last year. Now the wing is looking forward to

  • Legacy of caring crosses services, families

    His throat clogged with gravel and face covered in blood, Army Sgt. Jeff Beltran tried in vain to call out to his fellow Soldiers. The improvised explosive device that nearly obliterated the Humvee he was riding in a moment ago cast a deafening silence in the aftermath of the explosion – a silence

  • Porters moving cargo, people at record pace

    The holidays were a busy time of year for most Reservists, but this was especially true for four 446th Airlift Wing aerial porters deployed to Southwest Asia. And if you thought packing up the car to head over to a relative’s house for a holiday gathering was hectic, then imagine being a deployed

  • Reservists man contingency hospital

    Seventy-one Airmen from the 446th Aeromedical Staging Squadron are deploying to Southwest Asia to support Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. The deployment kicked off with the first Airmen leaving Christmas Day 2005, with the rest of the group following in January. The primary

  • Air Force Reserve aircrew evacuates refugees

    One-hundred, sixty-four people were evacuated from New Orleans, La., to Austin, Texas, today in a C-17 flown by an Air Force Reserve aircrew from McChord Air Force Base, Wash. The evacuation was part of a mission by the 728th Airlift Squadron that included bringing airfield supplies to Louis

  • McChord Reservists treat Hurricane Katrina victims

    As aeromedical evacuation operations gear down here, two Reservists from McChord Air Force Base, Wash., are heading home today after providing relief for Hurricane Katrina victims. Tech. Sgt. Shawnette Reach, and Tech Sgt. Leah Crawford, both medical technicians with the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation

  • Reserve crew tapped to fly Hurricane Rita support mission

    The first McChord crew out of the gate in support of Hurricane Rita is from the Air Force Reserve’s 313th Airlift Squadron here. The Reservists will take off in a C-17 Globemaster III at about 3:30 p.m., today, heading to Travis Air Force Base, Calif., to pick up 400 patient litters and 800 cargo

  • Air Force Reserve enlistment ceremony marks banner recruiting year

    To mark a banner recruiting year in the just-closed Fiscal Year ‘05, Air Force Reserve recruiters will host an enlistment ceremony for around 10 people at Seattle’s Space Needle at 1 p.m. Oct. 5. The ceremony is part of a nationwide project initiated by the Air Force Reserve Command. Each of the