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AFRC News

  • Reserve Advantage Featured at Miami Beach Airshow

    Air Force Reserve Command highlighted decisive capabilities during the 2026 Hyundai Air & Sea Show in Miami Beach, May 23-24, 2026. The two-day event over Memorial Day weekend provided opportunities to showcase capabilities in the air and on the ground with military displays and recruiting

  • Innovate, ideate, iterate: Partnership leads to improvement

    In September 2024, during an analysis of exercise Hungry Hungry Halibut, pilots from the 302nd Fighter Squadron identified a process that could be innovated upon for the oil servicing of an F-22 Raptor engine in austere environments.This call for innovation was met.The research funding was provided

  • Healy inducted into the AFRC Order of the Sword

    U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. John P. Healy, Chief of the Air Force Reserve and Commander of the Air Force Reserve Command, was inducted into the AFRCOrder of the Sword here May 14, 2026. The Order of the Sword is the highest honor and tribute noncommissioned officers can bestow upon an individual. Healy

  • Reserve leaders prepare future military officers, strengthen community ties

    Air Force Reserve Command leadership came full circle during a whirlwind tour throughout Connecticut to prepare our next Department of the Air Force leaders and to give back to their community roots that helped shape their military careers.“It is beyond surreal,” Lt. Gen. John P. Healy, chief of the

  • 920th Rescue Wing assists in rescue of 11 survivors off Florida coast

    Reserve Airmen assigned to the 920th Rescue Wing assisted in the rescue of 11 survivors from a downed civilian aircraft approximately 80 miles east of Melbourne, Florida, May 12, 2026. An emergency locator transmitter signal from a twin-engine turboprop aircraft alerted Coast Guard Southeast

  • Exercise Silent Recovery strengthens 419th SFS readiness and joint integration

    Fourteen defenders from the 419th Security Forces Squadron completed a three‑day joint training event with the Utah Army National Guard’s 211th Aviation Regiment, April 17–19, 2026, enhancing their ability to rapidly deploy, integrate with sister services, and operate in austere environments as part

  • Operation Spring Spartan Strengthens Airmen Readiness

    Reserve Airmen from the 445th Airlift Wing participated in Operation Spring Spartan from April 13-14, 2026. Spring Spartan was created to enhance the warfighter capabilities needed for deployed environments. It focused on evacuation alarm signals, attack response procedures, tactical combat casualty