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AFRC News

  • Developing Self: Airman’s Foundational Competencies Category

    The Air Force has identified 24 Airman’s foundational competencies for all Airmen, these competencies are universally applicable to all Airmen and are categorized into four groups: Developing Self, Developing Others, Developing Ideas and Developing Organizations. Developing Self includes the

  • 2020 Profiles in Leadership dedication

    Airmen at the Pentagon held a dedication of this year's Profiles in Leadership for the Air Force Reserve Birthday April 16, 2021. Profiles in Leadership highlights exceptional Reserve Citizen Airmen throughout the country. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lt. Col. Elizabeth Magnusson)

  • Mom, son celebrate Air Force achievements

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – A mom and her son will celebrate milestones this week when Tech. Sgt. Nessie McCray and Airman Basic Jaylen Netterville graduate from their respective technical training schools a day apart.

  • DAF continues implementation efforts for CUI

    Department of the Air Force personnel were already well versed with the necessity of protecting mission-critical unclassified information, but the release of the DoDI brought about additional responsibilities, procedures and dissemination controls that warranted the development of new approaches to

  • Wing’s first-ever flying shirt

    2020 was a year of many firsts, and as of last year, the 514th Air Mobility Wing now has its first-ever aircrew-ready first sergeant. Master Sgt. William M. Simurra, a newly appointed first sergeant with the 514th Civil Engineer Squadron and a career aviator, recently moved from the 76th Air

  • 433rd LRS team accelerates change in logistics training

    Staff Sgt. Taylor Mogford, 433rd Logistics Readiness Squadron individual protective equipment supervisor, here, and his team presented their ideas for revamping logistics training at the virtual 2021 Logistics Officer Association Symposium, April 2. During the 2019 LOA Symposium, the Aether Sprint

  • Reserve Airman makes history with innovative Project FoX/F-35 development

    For the first time ever, Air Force personnel livestreamed F-35 data directly from the aircraft’s mission systems computers to a connected computer tablet during a ground test March 31, 2021, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.The event was a milestone for the Fighter Optimization eXperiment (FoX), a

  • When Two Worlds Collide

    On Feb. 6, 2021, Senior Airman Louis Shackelford’s civilian and military worlds collided. “I recently received my first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during the February Unit Training Assembly (UTA). It was a surreal experience. I was sitting in my Air Force medical unit, in uniform, being