May 19, 2021 433rd Airlift Wing C-5M Super Galaxy delivers aid to COVID-19 stricken India A contingent of 17 Air Force Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 433rd Airlift Wing, located at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, delivered 48,000 pounds of critical supplies from the Defense Logistics Agency to Indian government officials in New Delhi, India, on May 3, 2021.
Dec. 23, 2016 ‘Operation Babylift’ Cheney Award recipient visits C-5 Wing On April 4, 1975, just a few weeks before the fall of Saigon and end of the Vietnam War, the first military flight of “Operation Babylift” out of Saigon on a C-5 cargo aircraft, crashed right after take-off. There were close to 300 hundred people on board, mostly children under the age of two that