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  • Share Your Adventure

    Share Your Adventure: help the Reserve team grow through testimony

    The peer referral program is the lead source generator for AFRC RS with one of four people referred by current Reservists joining the Air Force Reserve and is replacing the command’s Get1Now campaign. As manning levels continue to increase for AFRC and other branches of service and the nation’s economy continues to be strong, Share Your Adventure is a vital program to help recruiters gather quality leads and assure AFRC has the manning it needs to excel in its mission to fly, fight and win.
  • Capt. Amber Hauer, a 34th Aeromedical Squadron flight nurse, climbs aboard a 20-man life raft during water survival refresher training in Key West, Florida, May 22, 2019. (U.S. Air Fore photo by Tech. Sgt. Frank Casciotta)

    Reservists conduct urban and water survival training

    Reserve Citizen Airmen with the 302nd Airlift Wing's 731st Operations Group and 34th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron spent three days practicing Survival Evasion and Resistance Escape skills in Key West, Florida, May 21-23.
  • Over 50 service members from the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps Reserve and Air National Guard who participated in an Innovative Readiness Training project May 18 through June 1.

    Reserve Airmen participate in special project

    Over 50 service members from the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps Reserve and Air National Guard who participated in an Innovative Readiness Training project May 18 through June 1.
  • A B-52 Stratofortress, assigned to the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., prepares for an operational demonstration of the Quickstrike-ER (QS-ER) Naval mine project at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 28, 219. The QS-ER project was initiated by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command as part of ongoing efforts to modernize and enhance military readiness throughout the joint forces in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Heather Redman)

    Reserve Citizen Airmen help demonstrate new naval mine technology

    Reserve Citizen Airmen assigned to the 307th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here assisted the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron in using a B-52 Stratofortress to demonstrate the Quickstrike 64-Extended Range (QS-ER) naval mine project out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor- Hickam, Hawaii during the week of May 22-31. According to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command,
  • Wise Guy returns

    B-52 pilot reconnects with retired aircraft

    Lt. Col. Stephen Miracle, 10th Flight Test Squadron B-52 flight commander, recently took part in a mission to fly a regenerated B-52 from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. The feat was only the second time a Stratofortress returned to service from Davis-Monthan's "Boneyard."
  • Master Sgt. Allen Clutter, a flight engineer attached to 514th Flight Test Squadron, inspects the propellers while performing a pre-flight functional flight check on a U.S. Navy C-130 Hercules April 11, 2019, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force photo by Cynthia Griggs)

    Enlisted aircrew paramount to C-130 Hercules flight testing

    Not many people know that a small contingent of experienced enlisted C-130 aircrew reside at Hill Air Force Base. They are charged with the depot support flights of Air Force overflow, and Navy and Marine Corps aircraft.
  • An aircrew from Joint Base Charleston offloads a fire truck - along with an ambulance and firefighting equipment - from a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft during a weekend humanitarian and training mission to the Dominican Republic, May 31, 2019. The ambulance, along with a fire truck and firefighting equipment, was donated by a fire department in Rochester, New York and transported under the Denton Cargo Program, which allows for humanitarian aid and supplies to be transported on military aircraft on a space-available basis. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Justin Clark)

    All in a weekend: JBC's 315th Reserve Citizen Airmen deliver humanitarian aid to Dominican Republic

    The dual-purpose mission gave the Reserve aircrew an opportunity to train with the added benefit of delivering humanitarian aid to organizations in the Caribbean via the Denton Cargo Program.
  • Reserve Citizen Airmen from Joint Base Charleston's 315th Airlift Wing participate in a water survival training event held at Naval Air Station Key West, Fl., May 31, 2019. Airmen were taken by boat into open water, far from shore where a MH-60 Seahawk helicopter hoisted them individually out of the water using a rescue basket. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman William Brugge)

    Reserve Citizen Airmen complete water survival training event

    Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 315th Airlift Wing at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. completed water survival training at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, May 31, 2019.
  • Maj. Kendall Dunn, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron pilot, poses for a photo in front of a WC-130J Super Hercules at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, May 30, 2019. The 53rd WRS aka Air Force Reserve ‘Hurricane Hunters,’ is the only Air Force unit tasked with mission of flying into the eye of hurricanes to collect data from the inside of a storm. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Carranza)

    Reserve Citizen Airmen hunt

    This specialized unit of Reserve Citizen Airmen is made up of a five-person crew consisting of a pilot, co-pilot, navigator, aerial reconnaissance weather officer, and loadmaster who is also the dropsonde operator.
  • Members from Air Force Reserve Command attend a continuous process improvement symposium held at the Advanced Technology and Training Center in Warner Robins, Georgia, May 9, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Stephen D. Schester)

    CPI symposium focuses on lessons learned, reform

    In March, Lt. Gen. Richard Scobee, AFRC commander and chief of the Air Force Reserve, issued a memorandum, titled “Leading a Culture of Continuous Process Improvement,” in which he made clear the Reserve’s commitment to building and sustaining a culture of CPI.
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