MAFFS units to support southwestern firefighting efforts

Lt. Col. Kurt Holden, 115th Airlift Squadron commander, California Air National Guard, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Calif., talked with Albuquerque news media June 15 about his squadron’s deployment to Kirtland AFB, N.M. In support of the National Interagency Fire Center, the unit brought two C-130J aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System to help control wildfires in the Southwestern U.S. (Air Force photo by Elizabeth Martinez.)

MAFFS units to support southwestern firefighting efforts

Col. Robert Maness, 377th Air Base Wing commander, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., left, briefs Lt. Col. Kurt Holden, 115th Airlift Squadron commander, California Air National Guard, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Calif., on local conditions on the Kirtland AFB flightline June 15. (Air Force photo by Elizabeth Martinez.)