The Air Force Reserve's 302nd Airlift Wing has been pressed into service in the ongoing fight to contain deadly wildfires raging in Southern California. The unit will deploy two C-130 aircraft equipped with the U.S. Forest Service's Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems (MAFFS) to the region. Crews will join the current rotation of civilian air tankers working to contain the blazes, the airlift wing announced today. "According to a pre-existing agreement between the Department of Defense and the U.S. Forest Service,...
