Getting Ready
The C-17 crew is getting ready to kick off the Operation Unified Response. Majority of the nine-man crew are Air Force reservists from Inland Empire. First pit stop will be three hours in Louisville,...
View ArticleLouisville Landing
Blue sky stretched in front of Lt. Col. Jim Daronco and his copilot Lt. Kamran Aslam as they steered the C-17 Globemaster III into Louisville, Kentucky. But the present calm is just that - in a few...
View ArticleHaiti
The crew of eight Air Force Reservists from March Air Reserve Base are resting in Orlando, Florida on Thursday after completing the first part of the Operation Unified Response. "We live for moments...
View ArticleOrders are: Back to Haiti
Crew for 729th Airlift Squadron out of the 452nd Air Mobility Wing from March Air Reserve Base in Riverside board a C-17A Globemaster III plane at 1:30 AM at the Orlando Sanford International Airport...
View ArticleThe March crew "re-blued"
With her three children in tow, a Haitian evacuee Paraguesede Martelly hurried to the front of the C-17 cargo plane's makeshift seating area. Except there were no seats, just a cargo belts stretched...
View ArticleOnce More to Haiti
Eleven Air Force C-17A's sit on the tarmac at Charleston Air Force Base in Charleston, South Carolina. Our orders are to fly to Robins Air Force Base in Georgia pick up equipment and return to Haiti.
View ArticleFuel Trucks Bound for Haiti
The C-17A from March Air Force Reserve Base took on two fuel trucks from Robins Air Force Base in Georgia as cargo to be taken to Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port Au Prince, Haiti on...
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