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AFRC News

  • Reserve teams win 15 awards at Air Mobility Rodeo 2009

    Air Force Reserve units and blended units (reserve-regular Air Force) teams combined to win 15 events at Air Mobility Rodeo 2009,  the U.S. Air Force's premier mobility competition. . The 446th Airlift Wing and 916th Air Refueling Wing won two of the main awards at the week-long, international

  • Air Force, Army reservists team up in Global Medic exercise

    Global Medic is an annual medical exercise designed to replicate all aspects of combat service support on the battlefield and allow participating combat support units to train as they fight. As one of the largest medical command and control exercises between the U.S. Army Reserve and the U.S. Air

  • Blended team brings Rodeo gold to Goldsboro

    The blended 916th Air Refueling Wing Rodeo team won four awards at Air Mobility Command competition last week. The team, composed of regular and Air Force reserve members won top honors as the Best KC-135 Team at the international competition. Other awards included: Best KC-135 Air Crew, Best KC-135

  • 326th AS aircrew now veteran RODEO wranglers

    Aircrew members from the 326th Airlift Squadron are bringing home new experiences after competing at the 2009 Air Mobility Command RODEO July 19-25 at McChord Air Force Base, Wash. With more than 100 teams participating at the RODEO, including seven foreign countries, the competition tested Airmen

  • 446th Airlift Wing garners awards at Air Mobility Command's Rodeo

    The 446th Airlift Wing Rodeo team has garnered two awards so far as Air Mobility Command's Rodeo is wraps up today with award presentations and closing ceremonies at McChord Air Force Base, Wash.The 446th AW Rodeo team has taken the trophy in the Fit to Fight competition and the Rodeo Security

  • Rodeo reservist

    Senior Airman Nathan Shelley low crawls through an obstacle during a combat endurance competition on July 23 at Rodeo 2009. Airman Shelley is a reservist assigned to the 931st Air Refueling Group at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. His security forces teammates at Rodeo are active-duty Airmen assigned

  • 482nd FW Operations Group commander teams with brother to run Red Flag

    For the first time in Red Flag history, two brothers are running the show. America knows many family duos: Presidents George H.W. and George W. Bush, father and son; Eli and Peyton Manning, sibling quarterbacks in the NFL; Venus and Serena Williams, sisters and international tennis stars. How do two

  • Aeromedical team applies experience to contingency flight at Rodeo

    Experience at running aeromedical evacuation missions in the Southwest Asia area paid off for the 446th Rodeo Aeromedical Evacuation team, which scored a respectable 915 out of 1050 during their July 20 contingency flight. The contingency flight is one of three events for aeromedical evacuation

  • Team McConnell building on early success at Rodeo 2009

    Team McConnell members wasted no time making their presence known at Air Mobility Command's Rodeo 2009.The team found itself just one point shy of the top score following a preflight inspection of its KC-135 Stratotanker Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after arriving at McChord AFB, Wash., for

  • Reserve refueling crew honors fallen at Arlington

    A KC-135 Stratotanker from the 916th Air Refueling Wing had a mission this week usually reserved for fighters.On July 22, a combined Reserve and regular Air Force crew had the privilege of doing a fly-over at Arlington National Cemetery to honor service members killed in action during Vietnam. The