Lt. Col. Kurt Holden, 115th Airlift Squadron commander, California Air National Guard, Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Calif., talked with Albuquerque news media June 15 about his squadron’s deployment to Kirtland AFB, N.M. In support of the National Interagency Fire Center, the unit brought two C-130J aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System to help control wildfires in the Southwestern U.S. (Air Force photo by Elizabeth Martinez.)