Four of the eight firefighting C-130 aircraft presently stationed at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., to combat wildfires in Colorado and other western states will move to the Wyoming Air National Guard’s base in Cheyenne on Monday. (www.examiner.com) More...
They have pretty much shut down the private ones and are not letting new ones in. They need the private ones bad the military should do there job and then if needed help out now its getting the other way around is what I was speaking to. Read about it as they started some years back due to bad repair and inspections on private aircraft. All it would take is better oversite of the private ones.