Whether it’s on the field or in the sky, Abby Wambach has shown us she can soar to new heights. The Olympic champion of the U.S. women’s national soccer team flew in an F-15 while visiting the Montana Air National Guard on Sept. 11. “Tomorrow is the big day. Flight is at 9 a.m. Mostly excited about the F-15, but also a little terrified. Yikes,” she tweeted the night before. Wambach began her visit to the Great Falls International Airport, Mont., on Sept. 8, to get briefed for her Sept. 11 anniversary flight. Wambach was also there to speak with…
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Lt. Col. Tom Keegan of the 129th Rescue Squadron based at Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif. has been assisting in firefights for 15 years, and he’s still taking on more. For up to seven hours a day, Keegan and his crew fly an HH60G Pave Hawk with attached Bambi buckets full of water over the parts of California affected by wildfires this summer. At one point there were almost a dozen fires burning throughout the state with varying levels of containment. The California National Guard, California Emergency Management Agency and California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection have been working together…