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  • An F-16C Fighting Falcon assigned to the 93rd Fighter Squadron, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., takes off at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, May 21, 2019. The unit's deployment to RAF Lakenheath demonstrates the U.S. Air Force's ability to integrate a total force team into U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa training and operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Madeline Herzog)

    Reserve Fighting Falcons train with Lakenheath Strike Eagles

    93rd Fighter Squadron F-16C Fighting Falcons and 482nd Fighter Wing support personnel from Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, participated in Dissimilar Air Combat Training, here, with U.S. Air Forces in Europe units and partners and allies in the region, this month.
  • A 465th Air Refueling Squadron aircrew and U.S. Air Force Reserve KC-135 Stratotanker out of Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, refuel an F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 18th Aggressor Squadron at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, May 14, 2019, during exercise Northern Edge. Northern Edge provides effective, capabilities-centered joint forces, ready for deployment worldwide and enables real-world proficiency in detection, identification and tracking of units at sea, in the air and on land and respond to multiple crisis in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Bobby Jackson)

    Okies support Northern Edge

    Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 507th Air Refueling Wing joined approximately 10,000 U.S. military personnel participating in exercise Northern Edge 2019, a joint training exercise hosted by U.S. Pacific Air Forces on and above the central Alaska ranges and the Gulf of Alaska May 13-24, 2019.
  • AFRC deputy CC takes final flight

    AFRC deputy CC takes final flight after 34-year career

  • Air Force recruiting sponsorship with Professional Fighters League

    Total Force Recruiting scores knockout with Professional Fighters League

     In a combined recruiting effort, Air Force Reserve Command and Air Force Special Operations recruiting teamed up and scored a knockout at the Professional Fighters League season debut at the Nassau Coliseum May 9, 2019.The tag-team effort is something that will become the norm in the future as Air Force Recruiting Service integrates into one team,
  • U. S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Albert Pempsell, loadmaster with the 300th Airlift Squadron Joint Base Charleston, S.C., briefs Soldiers from the 414th Signal Company, Fort Stewart, Georgia, May 14, 2019, at Wright Army Airfield. The Airforce and the Army participated in an Expeditionary Deployment Readiness Exercise to help bolster combat readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman William Brugge)

    Reservists Aid Army Exercise

    The 315th Airlift Wing from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, provided C-17 Globemaster III support to Wright Army Airfield for an Army Expeditionary Deployment Readiness Exercise May 14 at Fort Stewart, Georgia. The 300th Airlift Squadron from JB Charleston, provided aerial support to the 414th Signal Company’s Tactical Communication Squadron from Fort Stewart. The EDRE helps to prepare military members to tactfully and efficiently deploy within hours.
  • A note found inside the cockpit of Wise Guy, a B-52 Stratofortress, is displayed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The jet has been a the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group since 2008 and was recently flow out to be restored to active service. (courtesy photo)

    Wise Guy back in the sky

    A team of Reserve Citizen Airmen and active duty maintainers spent four months prepping Wise Guy, a B-52 Stratofortress for flight. The bomber had been at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group since 2008.

  • 2018 Air Force Reserve Command Aeromedical Evacuation Award Selections

    Congratulations to the Air Force Reserve Command 2018 Aeromedical Evacuation Award winners. AFRC AE Communications Airman of the YearSenior Airman Jason Robicheau, 45th AES, MacDill AFB, FloridaAFRC AE Communications NCO of the YearTech. Sgt. Alyssa Hamilton, 45th AES, MacDill AFB, FloridaAFRC AE Communications SNCO of the YearMaster Sgt. Timothy
  • Once set up begins, their standard is to be fully mission capable within 12 hours. A fully mission capable facility includes an emergency room, operating room and morgue and allows U.S. Airmen to demonstrate their capabilities to our coalition partners. Combined training enables allies and partners to readily respond more effectively to regional crises and meet their own national defense goals. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Jeffery Sandstrum)

    Air Force Reserve Airmen conduct medical training during Immediate Response 2019

    U.S. Air Force Reserve medical personnel assigned to the 301st Fighter Wing, 301st Medical Squadron, out of Carswell Field, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas; and the 433rd Medical Support Squadron out of Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, built an expeditionary medical services facility, health responsive team (EMEDS HRT) and conducted a medical exercise in Maribor, Slovenia, during Immediate Response 2019, May 11.
  • Maj. Gen. Ronald B. “Bruce” Miller, 10th Air Force commander, Naval Air Station Forth Worth, Texas showed up on Florida’s Space Coast with 15 Texas business and community leaders to visit the 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida and learn about its mission. During the visit the civic leaders took time out for a group photo in front of a space capsule. The capsule was used by U.S. Air Force rescue personnel in the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron at Royal Air Force Woodbridge to train in recovery operations for both the Apollo and Skylab programs. The capsule has been on loan from the Smithsonian Institute’s National Air and Space museum since 1992 due to the unit’s role in human spaceflight rescue. The PAFB visit was their second stop on Florida’s East Coast after visiting the 482nd Fighter Wing, at Homestead Air Reserve Station, in Miami, earlier that day on April 24, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo Patrick Air Force Base Multimedia)

    Two-star general, 15 Texans experience Air Force Reserve missions through eyes of Airmen

    Two-star general, 15 Texans experience Air Force Reserve missions through eyes of Airmen

  • Air Force simplifies promotion recommendation forms for officers

    The Air Force announced today it will make adjustments to the way the Air Force Form 709, Promotion Recommendation Form, will be filled out and used for Total Force officer promotion boards beginning in September 2019.
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