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  • Scobee testifies before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense

    Scobee testifies before Senate Appropriations Committee

    Lt. Gen. Richard Scobee, chief of the Air Force Reserve and Air Force Reserve Command commander, joined his counterparts from the Army, Navy, Marine and National Guard, April 10, in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee on Capitol Hill to testify on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the National Guard and Reserve. Chairman Richard Shelby (R- Alabama) began by stressing the importance of the Guard and Reserve components to be sufficiently manned, trained and equipped to maintain and defend our national security interest.
  • Lt. Col. Barry “JR” Cupples, a navigator with the 757th Airlift Squadron, holds a 10,000 hours sign in the flight deck of a C-130H Hercules aircraft for a photo at the exact moment he completed his ten thousandth C-130 flight hour.

    10,000 hours

    Lt. Col. Barry Cupples, a navigator with the 757th Airlift Squadron, completed his ten thousandth C-130 flight hour here, April 6, 2019.
  • Air Force Reserve Command Senior Spouse Janis Scobee briefs key spouses from across 22nd Air Force at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, April 3, 2019.

    Key to success: key spouses connect at 22nd Air Force summit

    Key spouses from across 22nd Air Force gathered to learn, share and network at the Numbered Air Force’s first Key Spouse Leadership Summit April 2-4, 2019 at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia. Approximately 15 spouses from 22nd AF Direct Reporting Units participated. Air Force Reserve Command Senior Spouse Janis Scobee and Jill La Fave, 22nd AF senior spouse, hosted the event.
  • New mobile app enables, engages, empowers Airmen

    New mobile app enables, engages, empowers Airmen

    The Air Force now has an enterprise-wide mobile app designed to provide Airmen with streamlined access to information they need for their lives and careers.
  • Testing for the 2019 Maj. Gen. Doyle Larson Awards begins May 1, 2019. Enlisted Airmen, technical sergeant and below, from Twenty-Fifth Air Force, to include attached Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard components, and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, are eligible to test. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Vincent Childress)

    Larson Awards testing to commence, May 1

    Testing for the 2019 Maj. Gen. Doyle Larson Awards is scheduled to begin May 1. Enlisted Airmen, technical sergeant and below, from Twenty-Fifth Air Force, to include attached Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard components, and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, are eligible to test. 
  • Top Ten AGR Facts

    ARPC’s top ten things to know about AGR assignments

    Recently, the Chief of Air Force Reserve approved changes to the Active Guard Reserve program which are expected to be implemented later this year in September.
  • Senior NCO creates course to boost enlisted development

    Senior NCO creates course to boost enlisted development

    A senior NCO with the 413th Flight Test Group recently partnered with leaders from 10th Air Force to host a pair of first-ever enlisted development courses at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas, for members of Air Force Reserve Command’s aviation resource management career field.Senior Master Sgt. Richard Neal, 413th FTG
  • Air Force handpicks Reserve Airmen to lead customer-focused innovation

    Air Force handpicks Reserve Airmen to lead customer-focused innovation

    The BRICE app is an iOS app provided with a tablet that brings technical data, forms, and other tools to Airmen on the flight line. The new app has proven to reduce wasted man hours walking back and forth to the tool crib, or office for computer access. This improves flight readiness, data entry, and quickens turnaround time for routine maintenance.
  • A C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 911th Airlift Wing sits on the flightline at the Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania, March 26, 2019. The C-17 is capable of rapid strategic delivery of troops and all types of cargo to main operating bases or directly to forward bases in the deployment area.

    New chapter for the 911th Airlift Wing

    The 911th Airlift Wing is undergoing an aircraft conversion switching from the C-130 Hercules to a much a larger cargo aircraft in the C-17 Globemaster III. As of this week, three out of the eight C-17s assigned to the 911th Airlift Wing will be stationed at the Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania. The rest of the aircraft are to arrive over the next few months.
  • ARPC News Release Graphic

    HQ ARPC reduces retirement order processing time

    Headquarters Air Reserve Personnel Center concentrated efforts during the month of February to reduce the inventory of retirement applications for Guard and Reserve members turning 60 years of age.
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