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Corvette enthusiasts visit Alamo Wing
July 21, 2017 — The 433rd Airlift Wing recently hosted 65 members from the National Corvette Restorers Society at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, July 13, 2017... MORE

Members from the National Corvette Restorers Society walk up stairs to the troop compartment of a C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft July 13, 2017 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The tour also included a visit to the Military Working Dog program at the 341st Training Squadron and a self-guided tour of the United States Air Force Airman Heritage Museum and Enlisted Character Development Center. (U.S. Air Force photo by Benjamin Faske)

Operation Silver Galaxy participants train for future deployments
July 8, 2017 — The 433rd Airlift Wing hosted the 615th Aviation Support Battalion, 1st Air Combat Brigade, 1st Calvary Division from Fort Hood, Texas in support of Operation Silver Galaxy, a training exercise June 20-25 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland... MORE

Soldiers from the 1st Calvary Division, 1st Air Combat Brigade, 615th Aviation Support Battalion from Ft. Hood, Texas and Airmen from the 26th and 74th Aerial Port Squadrons begin loading a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter into the cargo hold of a C-5M Super Galaxy June 22, 2017 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Operation Silver Galaxy was a five-day training event that featured Airmen training Soldiers on how to secure their aircraft for a deployment in the cargo area of a C-5M Super Galaxy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Benjamin Faske)

Boss Lift provides sky-high look at Alamo Wing mission
June 17, 2017 — Twenty-eight civilian employers of 433rd Airlift Wing Citizen Airmen were provided an opportunity to experience the Alamo Wing's mission from the sky in a C-5M Super Galaxy June 10 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland... MORE

Twenty-eight civilian employers of 433rd Airlift Wing Citizen Airmen were provided an opportunity June 10, 2017 to experience the Alamo Wing’s mission from the sky in a C-5M Super Galaxy as a part of a local Boss Lift. The event, which was sponsored by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, promotes cooperation and understanding between Reserve component service members and their civilian employers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Bryan Swink)

AFRC Wings descend on California for Patriot Hook Exercise
May 5, 2017 — In a massive collaboration of more than 350 military, federal, and state personnel, and five Air Force Reserve Command Wings convened in California April 26 - May 1 to participate in Patriot Hook. The six-day exercise spanned across three sites in California, simulating austere Forward Operating Locations at Vandenberg Air Force Base, March Air Reserve Base, and Naval Air Station North Island. ... MORE

Airmen with the 68th Airlift Squadron unload vehicles from a C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft during exercise Patriot Hook April 26, 2017 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Patriot Hook is an annual joint-service exercise coordinated by the Air Force Reserve, designed to integrate the military and first responders of federal, state and local agencies by providing training to mobilize quickly and deploying in military aircraft in the event of a regional emergency or natural disaster. (U.S. Air Force photo by Benjamin Faske)

C-5M on full display for IAAFA students
April 2, 2017 — More than 80 students from the Inter-American Air Forces Academy visited units of the 433rd Airlift Wing and toured a C-5M Super Galaxy during a tour March 29.For many of the IAAFA students, this was... MORE

Senior Master Sgt. A. Clark, a 356th Airlift Squadron flight engineer, shows students from the Inter-American Air Forces Academy how the rollers on the C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft are used to load cargo March 29, 2017 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. As part of their tour the students also toured the structural, metals, survival, and engine shops. (U.S. Air Force photo by Benjamin Faske)

‘Operation Babylift’ Cheney Award recipient visits C-5 Wing
December 23, 2016 — On April 4, 1975, just a few weeks before the fall of Saigon and end of the Vietnam War, the first military flight of “Operation Babylift” out of Saigon on a C-5 cargo aircraft, crashed right after... MORE

Retired Col. Regina Aune, right, describes to Col. Thomas K. Smith, 433rd Airlift Wing commander, Dec. 19, 2016, how the children were bedded down in the overhead troop compartment of the aircraft, during “Operation Babylift.” Aune was on the first military aircraft to Vietnam to bring the refugees to the United States. “Operation Babylift” was a combined effort between the United States, Canada, Australia and France, to evacuate more than 3,300 refugees from South Vietnam. (U.S. Air Force photo by Minnie Jones)

Alamo Wing honors young aviation enthusiast
November 10, 2016 — The Saturday of a Unit Training Assembly is usually fraught with work orders, computer based training or preparing for real-world missions at the 433rd Airlift Wing. On Nov. 5, 2016; however, members... MORE

Col. Gretchen Wiltse, right, 433rd Maintenance Group commander, administers a military oath to 5-year-old Mayra Salinas, while the child's mother, Ashley Salinas, observes, Nov. 5, 2016 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Salinas became an honorary member of the Rising 6, a private organization at the 433rd Airlift Wing comprised of Airmen in the grade of E-1 to E-6. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Carlos J. Treviño)

Lackland medics visit C-5M, school house
October 26, 2016 — Nine Airmen with the 59th Medical Support Squadron toured the C-5M Super Galaxy and the Air Force Reserve C-5M School House at the 733rd Training Squadron Oct. 26 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland,... MORE

Airmen with the 59th Medical Support Squadron climb into a C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft Oct. 26, 2016 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. In addition to boarding the Air Force's largest aircraft, the Airman toured the formal training unit for all C-5M Super Galaxy aircrew training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Benjamin Faske)

Lackland medics visit C-5M, school house
October 26, 2016 — Nine Airmen with the 59th Medical Support Squadron toured the C-5M Super Galaxy and the Air Force Reserve C-5M School House at the 733rd Training Squadron, Oct. 26 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland,... MORE

First C-5M named 'City of San Antonio,' lands at Alamo Wing
June 20, 2016 — The saying “history repeats itself” has become all too familiar to the 433rd Airlift Wing, as hundreds of Airmen and distinguished guests gathered along the flight line here June 17 to welcome the Alamo Wing’s first official C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft, bestowed “The City of San Antonio.” The 433rd AW is the first and only U.S. Air Force Reserve wing to receive Lockheed Martin’s modernized cargo plane... MORE

Col. Thomas K. Smith Jr., 433rd Airlift Wing commander, addresses the crowd during the C-5M Super Galaxy transfer ceremony June 17, 2016 along the flight line of Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Colonel Smith boarded the aircraft bound for the ceremony from Stewart Air National Guard Base, New York, that morning. It is the only C-5M to be bestowed as "The City of San Antonio." (U.S. Air Force photo by Benjamin Faske)