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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Kentucky Air Guard deploys aircraft, airmen for evacuation missions in Texas following Hurricane HarveyKentucky Air Guard deploys aircraft, airmen for evacuation missions in Texas following Hurricane Harvey
                        
                        
                        Aerial porters from the 123rd Airlift Wing load a pallet of cargo nets onto a C-130 Hercules at the Kentucky Air National Guard base in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 1, 2017. The Aircraft is one of two that will carry 14 Kentucky Air Guardsmen to Texas, where they will fly humanitarian aid and airlift evacuation missions in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Lt. Col. Dale Greer)
                
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        Kentucky Air Guard deploys aircraft, airmen for evacuation missions in Texas following Hurricane HarveyKentucky Air Guard deploys aircraft, airmen for evacuation missions in Texas following Hurricane Harvey
                        
                        
                        Aircrew members from the 123rd Airlift Wing prepare to fly to Texas aboard a C-130 Hercules at the Kentucky Air National Guard base in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 1, 2017. The Airmen will fly humanitarian aid and airlift evacuation missions there in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Lt. Col. Dale Greer)
                
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                        Two C-130 Hercules aircraft and 14 Airmen from the 123rd Airlift Wing deploy from the Kentucky Air National Guard base in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 1, 2017, bound for Texas, where they will fly humanitarian aid and airlift evacuation missions in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Lt. Col. Dale Greer)
                
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Kentucky ANG deploys more aircraft, Airmen for Hurricane Harvey relief operationsPublished Sept. 5, 2017
                    
                    By Lt. Col. Dale Greer
                    
                    
                    123rd Airlift Wing Public Affairs
            **LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AFNS)  --**Two C-130 Hercules aircraft and 14 more Airmen deployed from the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Sept. 1, 2017, to fly humanitarian aid and airlift evacuation missions in Texas following unprecedented flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey.
 
The Airmen will operate out of Carswell Field, which is located on Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, said Capt. Nick Dobson, the mission planner for the Kentucky Air Guard’s 165th Airlift Squadron.
 
From Carswell Field, Airmen expect to fly missions into Beaumont Municipal Airport, in Beaumont, Texas, to pick up dislocated residents and transport them to Dallas Love Field, Dobson said. Residents will then be moved to safe shelter by emergency responders on the ground.
 
Chief Master Sgt. Jeff Brown, a loadmaster in the 165th AS, has supported hurricane relief operations in the past, including Katrina in 2005.
 
“This is the kind of thing we train to do,” Brown said. “We train for combat and we train for humanitarian missions like this. We’ve done it before, and we’re glad to be called upon again.”
 
Brown noted that evacuation missions require extra sensitivity on the part of Airmen because they never know what to expect.
 
“You don’t always know if the passengers are sick or injured, you don’t know what their mental state is, so that means we have to exercise a little more care with them,” Brown said.
 
Tonight’s deployment is the third this week for members of the Kentucky ANG. The unit sent 18 members of its 123rd Special Tactics Squadron to the Houston area Aug. 27, where they are conducting water patrol missions with inflatable motorboats. To date, those Airmen have rescued more than 330 residents stranded by high water, and controlled air traffic for multiple helicopter landing zones. With the need for roof-top rescues now largely abated, those Airmen are expected to return home soon.
 
The 123rd Contingency Response Group also deployed 43 Airmen, augmented by six troops from the Mississippi ANG, Aug. 30, to establish an air hub in Houston for air cargo and aeromedical evacuation operations.
 
“We have a lot of unique capabilities in our wing which allow us to respond effectively during events like this, including pararescuemen, combat controllers and a contingency response group — a unit whose sole reason for existence is to rapidly establish airlift hubs in areas affected by natural disasters or other contingencies,” said Col. David Mounkes, the 123rd Airlift Wing commander, the parent unit of the 165th AS, the 123rd STS and the 123rd CRG. “Nothing is more rewarding than being able to put all those capabilities to use in our own homeland, helping people in need.”Humanitarian 



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