Outstanding Airmen of the Year

Air Force Reserve Command Senior NCO of the Year Senior Master Sgt. Steven S. West, operations superintendent, 349th Security Forces Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, Calif.

Force structure realignments

Master Sgt. Paul Cyr, 506th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, keeps a vigilant eye at Kirkuk, Iraq, in October 2007. Since then the Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass., reservist has been promoted to senior master sergeant and his 439th Security Force Squadron is slated to gain another 13 drilling reservists in 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Kevin Williams)

Reservist wins 4th military powerlifting title

Master Sgt. Tina Robinson squats 300 pounds in a fitness center at an air base in Southwest Asia in 2008. She was named "Strongest (female) in the AOR" two years ago after placing first in the women's category of an Air Forces Central powerlifting competition. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Domonique Simmons)

Keeping Dad nearby

KEEPING DAD NEARBY -- This photograph of 3-year-old Blain Lawlor won the Portrait/Personality Photograph category in the 2009 Air Force Media Contest. The Airman and Family Readiness Center at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass., created the pillowcase for Blain, so he could keep his dad, Master Sgt. Dan Lawlor, close during a deployment to Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Hueming Mui)

Hurry up and weight

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Air Force Reservist Master Sgt. Tina Robinson recently won three gold medals at the 2010 USA Military National Powerlifting/Bench Press Championships held Mar. 20 at Brooks City Base near San Antonio. Most days, she works out at the Robins AFB Fitness Center (pictured). Sergeant Robinson is first sergeant for Air Force Reserve Command Recruiting Service. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Paul Flipse)

Getting a grip

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Air Force Reservist Master Sgt. Tina Robinson recently won three gold medals at the 2010 USA Military National Powerlifting/Bench Press Championships held Mar. 20 at Brooks City Base near San Antonio. Pictured here, she carefully finds a good grip before a bench press at the Robins AFB Fitness Center. Sergeant Robinson is first sergeant for Air Force Reserve Command Recruiting Service. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Paul Flipse)

Reservist helps save Haitian infant's life

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. -- Col. Paulette R. Schank, assumed command of the 514th Aerospace Medicine Squadron during a ceremony in June 2009. Colonel Schank is working in Haiti as a volunteer healthcare provider. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Donna T. Jeffries)

AFRC commander visits deployed troops

Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., Air Force Reserve Command commander, visits with 746th Aircraft Maintenance Unit servicemembers during a base visit, Dec. 7, 2009. General Stenner was traveling throughout Southwest Asia visiting Reservists deployed in support of operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Barney).

AFRC commander sends holiday wishes

During a visit with the troops in April 2009, Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., commander of Air Force Reserve Command, poses for a photo with Tech. Sgt. Lawrence J. Elder, a security forces Airman deployed to Iraq from the 315th Airlift Wing, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. In his 2009 holiday season message, the general urges people to remember the men and women who are away from home defending freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo)

March in Review: Amelia Earhart among guests at March Field

Amelia Earhart stands in front of a Boeing P-12 in a hangar at March Field, Calif., in 1935. The P-12 was flown by the 17th Pursuit Group at March Field from 1931 to 1932, before being replaced by the Boeing P-26 "Peashooter," the Air Corps' first all-metal mono-wing fighter. (March Field Historical photo)

Headquarters employee marks 50 years of service

Jerry Chalker, a civilian employee at Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command, has worked at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., for more than 50 years. He has no plans to retire. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Celena Wilson)

Air Force Reserve adjusts to meet operational demands

Col. Robert Nordberg, right, commander of the 917th Operations Group, shows Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., commander of Air Force Reserve Command, the Combat Flight Instructor Course book in the group's 93rd Bomb Squadron facilities at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Sept. 25, 2009. Since the 1950s, every instructor in the B-52s completing the course has signed the book. As part of his duties, General Stenner routinely travels around the United States and overseas meeting Airmen. On this trip, he met with Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, commander of Global Strike Command, at Barksdale AFB. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Jeff Walston)