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433rd Airlift Wing trains in readiness exercise
March 11, 2021 — Approximately 50 Reserve Citizen Airmen participated in the 433rd Airlift Wing’s first chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives exercise at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland March 6 since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year... MORE

Reserve Citizen Airmen in the 433rd Airlift Wing help each other in donning mission-oriented protective posture gear March 6, 2021, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Almost 50 Airmen participated in the wing’s first chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives exercise since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Samantha Mathison)

Reserve squadrons train for readiness at JBSA-Lackland
November 15, 2020 — Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 433rd Operations Support Squadron set up a decontamination line at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Nov. 8, processing two 68th Airlift Squadron Airmen through the line for mutual training... MORE

Staff Sgt. Louis Tirado, 433rd Operations Support Squadron aircrew flight equipment technician, prepares a decontamination line for readiness training with the 68th Airlift Squadron Nov. 8, 2020, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The decontamination line consists of four stations where AFE technicians work to safely decontaminate Airmen from toxic substances. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Samantha Mathison)

A Gold Star to remember for 433rd AW member
September 27, 2020 — The last Sunday of September every year is Gold Star Mother’s and Family Day, where the families of service members who died while in the line of duty are honored. On this day, these families are remembered for the losses they suffered. While many choose to honor their losses in different ways, Tech. Sgt. Joseph Perez, 26th Aerial Port Squadron ramp services supervisor, said he chose to honor his father by serving in the same unit as him... MORE

Tech. Sgt. Joseph Perez, 26th Aerial Port Squadron ramp services supervisor, visits the grave of his father Sept. 25, 2020, with his family at Fort Sam Houston Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Samantha Mathison)

Alamo Wing participates in Spurs Military Appreciation Night
March 12, 2020 — A military honor guard team, an American flag display, and an Airman singing the national anthem, officially opened the Military Appreciation Night at the San Antonio Spurs basketball game here March 10. Armed services members, family, and friends joined with other San Antonio residents to attend the game and watch the events... MORE

Staff Sgt. Joshua A. Ramos, 433rd Airlift Wing command post controller, sings the Star Spangled Banner before the start of a Spurs basketball game at Military Appreciation Night March 10, 2020 in San Antonio.

Alamo Wing pauses for resiliency
November 6, 2019 — The 433rd Airlift Wing participated in a “Resilience Tactical Pause” at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Nov. 3... MORE

Chaplain (Capt.) Matthew A. Hanzelka, 433rd Airlift Wing chaplain, crawls across an obstacle during a team-building exercise at the 433rd AW Resilience Tactical Pause at the Air Force Basic Military Training’s Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training site at the Medina Annex, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas Nov. 3, 2019.

Inter-American Air Forces Academy students tour Reserve C-5M
November 1, 2019 — Twenty-nine students and faculty members from the Inter-American Air Forces Academy toured an Air Force Reserve Command C-5M Super Galaxy belonging to the 433rd Airlift Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Oct. 30... MORE

Tech. Sgt. Joshua Green, 356th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, describes the 433rd Airlift Wing’s C-5M Super Galaxy’s cargo carrying capabilities to Inter-American Air Forces Academy students Oct. 30, 2019 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

Reserve Citizen Airmen distribute food to those in need
September 26, 2019 — Fifteen Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 433rd Airlift Wing and 960th Cyberspace Wing packaged and distributed food during three distribution events in San Antonio Sept. 19-20... MORE

Tech. Sgt. Rachel Stalnaker, 433rd Maintenance Squadron aerospace ground equipment technician, assembles packages of fresh produce during a San Antonio Food Bank distribution event at Windcrest United Methodist Church Sept. 19. Fifteen Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 433rd Airlift Wing and 960th Cyberspace Wing participated in three distribution events over two days.

Honorary commanders tour 433rd Mission Support Group
September 12, 2019 — Eleven honorary commanders toured the 433rd Mission Support Group at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Sept. 7 to view the group’s mission capabilities. This tour is the first of a series of grouped tours that are given to encourage relationships between the wing’s senior leadership and San Antonio’s civilian business and civic leaders... MORE

Steve Young, VIA Metropolitan Transit vice president of information technology, experiences discharging a fire hose during a tour of the 433rd Mission Support Group at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Sept. 7. Young is paired with Lt. Col. Travis J. Hatley, 74th Aerial Port Squadron commander.

Former Vietnam POW addresses 433rd Airlift Wing deployers
September 3, 2019 — A former Vietnam War prisoner spoke about leadership and communication before an audience of 500 deployers and their loved ones in San Antonio Aug. 17... MORE

Retired Air Force Col. Lee Ellis speaks at an Air Force Reserve Yellow Reintegration Program training event in San Antonio Aug. 17. The former Vietnam War prisoner told deployers and their loved ones what he learned during captivity that they can apply when dealing with struggles in their own lives. His F-4C Phantom was shot down over North Vietnam in November 1967 and he was held until March 1973.

ESGR flight gives Texas Reserve bosses firsthand experience
August 12, 2019 — Thirty-four civilian bosses of Reserve Citizen Airmen with the 433rd Airlift Wing got an opportunity to fly on a C-5M Super Galaxy at Joint base San Antonio-Lackland Aug. 3. The Bosslift event was sponsored by the Employer Support of Guard and Reserve program. ... MORE

Employers of 433rd Airlift Wing Reserve Citizen Airmen prepare to board a C-5M Super Galaxy at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Aug. 3. They were invited to take an Employer Support of Guard and Reserve Bosslift tour to Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

Alamo Wing hosts clergy from throughout Texas
June 5, 2019 — Twenty clerics from different faiths and from all over the state of Texas endured the South Texas summer heat and humidity arriving here at sunrise June 1 to participate in the 433rd Airlift Wing’s Clergy Appreciation Day... MORE

Tech. Sgt. Eric Ganley (right), 68th Airlift Squadron flight engineer, uses an electronic tablet to show Josue Tapia, Bexar County Sheriff’s Office chaplain, their location in-flight on a C-5M Super Galaxy during the 433rd Airlift Wing’s annual Clergy Day flight June 1 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. The wing welcomed 20 ministers nominated by their Reserve Citizen Airman to get a glimpse of a unit training assembly.

University of North Texas Air Force Cadets tour 433rd Airlift Wing
May 24, 2019 — The University of North Texas Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps toured the C-5M Super Galaxy at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland May 16. The group received a close view of the aircraft and the 433rd Airlift Wing mission brief... MORE

taff Sgt. Kryssianna M. Paolo, 68th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, briefs University of North Texas Air Force ROTC cadets about her job duties on the C-5M Super Galaxy, May 16, 2019, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The cadets were on a tour to give them a first-hand look at military life.

433rd Airlift Wing Citizen Airman, loving sister, living organ donor
May 1, 2019 — When one 433rd Airlift Wing Reserve Citizen Airman learned there was a way to help her sick sister through a living organ donor program, she didn’t hesitate to volunteer. Senior Master Sgt. Carol A. Allen, 433rd Force Support Squadron Sustainment Flight superintendent at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, is dedicated to her family and her role as an Airman... MORE

Senior Master Sgt. Carol A. Allen (right), 433rd Force Support Squadron Sustainment Flight superintendent, takes a moment with her sister, Yvonne Hernandez at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland April 26.

Two San Antonio Air Force wings represent at Fiesta Flambeau parade
April 30, 2019 — With the Texas sunset serving as the backdrop, San Antonio’s Alamo Mission in the background and the University of Texas Longhorn Band lined up in front of the historical site, the 433rd Airlift Wing’s massive C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft came in low from the North opening up the 71st Annual Fiesta Flambeau Parade April 27, with an impressive flyover... MORE

The 433rd Airlift Wing's Honor Guard leads the 433rd Airlift Wing and 960th Cyberspace Wing walkers and float on Broadway Street in downtown San Antonio during the 71st annual Fiesta Flambeau Parade April 27. More than 750,000 spectators lined the 2.6-mile-long route see more than 200 floats and marching bands perform in the grand finale of Fiesta Week.

433rd Airlift Wing inducts 2019 honorary commanders
April 11, 2019 — Seventeen San Antonio civic and business leaders were inducted into the 433rd Airlift Wing's Honorary Commanders Program, April 6, 2019, during a ceremony at a San Antonio hotel. The ceremony, hosted by Col. Terry W. McClain, 433rd Airlift Wing commander, is a time-honored tradition, signifying the relationship between the military and civilian communities... MORE

Col. Terry McClain, 433rd Airlift Wing commander, is presented with a vintage 433rd Military Airlift Wing panoramic photo from 1991 by Steve Richmond, an honorary commander alumni and president of Pizza Hut of San Antonio, April 6 at a northwest San Antonio hotel. Seventeen honorary commanders were inducted at the annual event.

Air Force Reserve senior leaders visit Alamo Wing
March 8, 2019 — Air Force Reserve senior leaders learned about the many missions Reserve Citizen Airmen of the Alamo Wing perform during a visit here in early March... MORE

Lt. Gen. Richard Scobee (right), commander of the Air Force Reserve Command, presents a coin to Senior Airman Sajjad Al Khafaji, 26th Aerial Port Squadron ramp specialist at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland March 2. Khafaji, who previously worked as an interpreter with the U.S. Army in Baghdad, immigrated to the United States five years ago.

433rd Airlift Wing welcomes new commander
March 8, 2019 — With a C-5M Super Galaxy as the backdrop, and 433rd Airlift Wing members standing in formation, Col. Thomas K. Smith Jr, relinquished his command to Col. Terry W. McClain. Maj. Gen. Randall A. Ogden, 4th Air Force commander, presided over the 433rd Airlift Wing’s change of command ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland March 3... MORE

Maj. Gen. Randall A. Ogden, 4th Air Force commander, presents the wing guidon to Col. Terry W. McClain, 433rd Airlift Wing commander, at the 433rd AW change of command ceremony March 3 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

433rd Airlift Wing Reserve Citizen Airmen return to hometown to recruit the next generation
February 20, 2019 — The 433rd Airlift Wing’s C-5M Super Galaxy from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland was one of the biggest attractions at the Washington’s Birthday Celebration Association Stars and Stripes Air Show Spectacular in Laredo, Texas, impressing more than 13,000 visitors at the Laredo International Airport Feb. 17... MORE

Spectators walk to a 433rd Airlift Wing’s C-5M Super Galaxy from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland while an A-10C Thunderbolt II performs during the Washington’s Birthday Celebration Association Stars and Stripes Air Show Spectacular at the Laredo International Airport in Laredo, Texas Feb. 17. The A-10 belongs to the A-10C Thunderbolt II Demonstration Team from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.

AFJROTC unit named after Tuskegee Airman visits 433rd Airlift Wing
February 19, 2019 — Thirty-three Benjamin O. Davis High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets from Aldine, Texas, near Houston, visited the 433rd Airlift Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Feb. 15. The students, whose school is named after the first commander of the Tuskegee Airmen Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, received a tour of a C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft and had lunch at an Air Force dining facility. The students accompanied by five chaperones were scheduled to compete in a drill competition in San Antonio... MORE

Benjamin O. Davis High School Air Force Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps students and chaperones from Aldine, Texas, and 68th Airlift Squadron air crew personnel, take a moment after a tour of a C-5M Super Galaxy Feb. 15 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

433rd Airlift Wing Reserve Airmen continue annual holiday tradition of feeding Alamo City families
January 3, 2019 — Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 433rd Airlift Wing joined forces with 1,000 other volunteers from the Greater San Antonio Area in serving more than 10,000 meals during the afternoon shift at H-E-B’s 26th Annual Feast of Sharing holiday dinner Dec. 23 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio... MORE

Identical twins, Airmen 1st Class Maranda Smith, 433rd Aerospace Medicine Squadron health services technician and Mariah Smith, 433rd Force Support Squadron communications technician, talk with a guest at H-E-B’s 26th Annual Feast of Sharing Dec. 23, 2018, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. This was the Smith sisters first time serving at the event that served over 10,000 meals to area resident from the Alamo City area.