910th unit battles Gulf slicks

[Robbien]

Source: Youngstown News

Air Force Reserve Maj. Philip Townsend said he began to realize the enormous scope of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico when some of the oil slicks they were spraying were miles long and miles wide.

Townsend, a C-130 pilot with the Aerial Spray Squadron of the Air Force Reserve’s 910th Airlift Wing at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station, was one of about 60 squadron personnel who returned home Thursday and Friday after more than a month assisting civilian efforts in fighting the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

It was the 910th Aerial Squadron’s first real oil-spill mission. The squadron is the only full-time, fixed-wing aerial-spray unit in the Department of Defense.

Three C-130 Hercules transport and cargo aircraft, two outfitted for aerial-spray missions, were dispatched to the Gulf on April 29 and began spray missions May 1, said Maj. Brent Davis, 910th public-affairs officer.

. . .

Townsend said 910th personnel and planes flew more than 90 spray sorties and logged some 150 hours of flight time.

Read more: http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/jun/05/910th-unit-battles-gulf-slicks/

---

They are the only squadron that does this type work and now they are back home.

[aquart]

1. Dispersant?

[Kolesar]

5. Obliquely mentioned

The Air Force Reserve aircraft and personnel were released from the aerial-spray, oil-dispersion mission at Stennis International Airport, Miss., when civilian C-130s arrived to take over spray operations, Davis said.

[Jumping John]

2. "The Air Force Reserve aircraft and personnel were released from the aerial-spray, oil-dispersion

mission at Stennis International Airport, Miss., when civilian C-130s arrived to take over spray operations, Davis said."

[saigon68]

3. Ah the Old Agent Orange Gig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTK8PlThZy0

Operation Ranch Hand

"ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FORESTS"

[Owl]

4. Did BP give the 910th Aerial Squadron permission to fly over "their" space?