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AFRC News

  • Air Force Reserve streamlines call-up process

    Air Force Reserve Command officials are proposing comprehensive changes to how reservists are managed and called to active duty based on lessons learned from nearly nine years of combat and surge operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.Collectively called "AFR 2012," this series of projects establishes a

  • Airmen listen to Voices of History

    Airmen from the 434th Air Refueling Wing gathered outside the boundaries of the base to hear the lessons from outside the boundaries of a generation.Veterans from World War II, spoke to a small crowd of Airmen and civic leaders during a special luncheon held in a pavilion at the Grissom

  • DOD leaders urge survey participation

    Noting the importance of getting the opinions of those who would be most affected by a possible repeal of the so-called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is urging service men and women to provide their

  • AWACS reservists take part in Pacific exercise

    An E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control Systems aircraft with 44 Air Force reservists from the 513th Air Control Group and one Airman from the Regular Air Force's 965th Airborne Air Control Squadron left for Hickam AFB, Hawaii, July 17 to participate in a major U.S Pacific Fleet exercise.The Rim

  • Dover reservists treat patients in Dominican Republic

    Thirty-nine Air Force Reserve medics with the 512th Aerospace Medicine Squadron here left July 10 for the Caribbean to participate in a Medical Readiness Training Exercise that lasts until July 24.Known as MEDRETE 2010 Dominican Republic, the 512th Airlift Wing Airmen, as well as other reservists

  • Dover C-5s support Afghanistan troop surge

    C-5 aircrews from here spent June 15 to July 15 overseas delivering 4 million pounds of cargo to support the troops surge in Afghanistan.Two C-5M Super Galaxies and two C-5B Galaxies airlifted 103 helicopters to the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division. Soldiers from the Fort Hood,

  • Tinker reservists begin RIMPAC missions

    Lt. Col. Eric Wilks, KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft commander with the 465th Air Refueling Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., flies a refueling mission on July 8, 2010 in support of RIMPAC 2010 at Hickam AFB, Hawaii. RIMPAC 2010 is the 22nd in a series of significant international multilateral

  • Air Force Reserve Command chief visits Hawaii, Guam reservists

    The command chief master sergeant for Air Force Reserve Command visited 624th Regional Support Group in June to learn about the challenges facing reservists in the Pacific.Chief Master Sgt. Dwight Badgett's trip took place in conjunction with back-to-back unit training assemblies in Hawaii and Guam.

  • Hurricane Hunters show Alex strengthen into Category 2 storm before landfall

    Hours before an aircrew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron left for an after-midnight flight into Hurricane Alex, the storm had just been upgraded from a tropical storm to a hurricane. By the time the crew returned from more than seven hours inside the storm, the data they gathered showed

  • Seminars help officers complete military education

    Air Force Reserve majors and lieutenant colonels come here in June to start or complete their Air Command and Staff College or Air War College distance learning professional military education.They attend Air Reserve Component Seminars, which focus on helping Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard