By 1st Lt. Alan Abernethy, 94th Airlift Wing / Published May 14, 2021
Lieutenant Colonel Saksorn Fhaikhao, Royal Thai Air Force C-130 instructor pilot, stands in front of a C-130H3 at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., while serving with the 94th Airlift Wing as part of the the international Military Personnel Exchange Program, February 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Michael McGhee)
Lieutenant Colonel Saksorn Fhaikhao, Royal Thai Air Force C-130 instructor pilot, stands in front of a C-130H3 at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., while serving with the 94th Airlift Wing as part of the the international Military Personnel Exchange Program, March 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Alan Abernethy)
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In a concrete hangar in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico,
Katrina Mayes is working with precision and purpose. Wisps of smoke surround her, wafting off the dry ice she is using to jerry-rig a cardboard vaccine carrier. Her task: to create a vapor phase vent to moderate the temperature of the cooling container from around minus 80 degrees Celsius (for storing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vials) to minus 15 degrees Celsius (to accommodate supplies of the Moderna vaccine).
At 29, the biochemist and virologist has spent much of her professional life indoors, where the U.S. government has entrusted her to handle some of the world’s most lethal pathogens including Ebola, Lassa fever, and Nipah viruses at top-secret Biosafety Level Four facilities. “I shower six times a day,” she tells me. “I’m the cleanest person you’ll ever meet.” Her winning smile and gallows humor mask the gravity of her work, which has involved diffusing poison-laced letters that have been mailed to federal buildings.
23 U.S. Airmen and C-130J Super Hercules aircraft assigned to the 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and the 143rd AW, Rhode Island Air National Guard, arrived at Siauliai AB, Lithuania, on May 5, 2021, to provide airlift and airdrop during Swift Response 21.
The U.S. Air Force Reserve’s 94th AW, Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, and 133rd AW, Minnesota Air National Guard, will fly C-130H Hercules aircraft along with the 934th AW, Minneapolis-St. Paul Joint Air Reserve Station, Minnesota, who will fly C-130HJ Hercules aircraft, also arrived at Siauliai AB to provide airlift and airdrop during Swift Response 21.
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