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May 26, 2020
Hurricane Hunters take part in online National Tropical Weather Conference

The 2020 National Tropical Weather Conference, originally scheduled for April, was postponed due to COVID-19, however, the pandemic didn’t stop emergency managers, meteorologist, and the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters from going live online this week to talk about their mission and educate the
May 26, 2020
Reserve Officer Development Categories

On October 21, 2019 the Air Force announced it formally established six officer developmental groupings for active component line officers that took effect in March 2020 for the lieutenant colonel promotion board which convenes in May 2020.
May 26, 2020
Coping with COVID-19; home schooling

Reserve Citizen Airmen cope with the COVID-19 crisis in both their military and civilian careers.
May 22, 2020
Fitness testing suspended until Oct. 1

The change, which is an update from the original June 1 resume date, is effective immediately.
May 22, 2020
Reserve Citizen Airman Battles Coronavirus on the Front Lines

Reserve Citizen Airmen, Lt Col Andrea A. Haylock, chief nurse with the 514th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, is actively engaged in COVID-19 critical response efforts on the front lines in New York City.
May 22, 2020
Out of the Uniform: 446th Reserve Citizen Airman, husband make house calls to flatten the curve

Staff Sgt. Geri Poston, a 446th Force Support Squadron services sustainment technician, fights COVID-19 with house calls to flatten the curve.Founded in September 2018, Poston and her Army medic-trained husband, Joseph, formed their company, Remedy Urgent Mobile Medicine.“We both really saw a need
May 22, 2020
Dobbins nurses fight COVID-19 in New York City

DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Ga. – Air Force Reserve nurses from the 94th Aeromedical Staging Squadron departed here last month after just a few hours’ notice to join the Department of Defense response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is being led by U.S. Northern Command.Capt. Arielle Watson, one of
May 21, 2020
Hill AFB F-35 maintainers speed egress inspection and servicing

Air Reserve Technician Tech. Sgt. Nicholas Westover is one of two maintainers helping aircraft availability numbers by decreasing downtime in the process for inspecting and servicing F-35A Lightning II seats as the first fully qualified Egress technicians at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.Westover,
May 21, 2020
Reserve citizen Airmen keep Hanscom moving forward

Members of a unique component of the U.S. Air Force Reserve’s citizen Airmen have been assisting the Hanscom community navigate COVID-19 response operations. Individual mobilization augmentees, reservists assigned to an active duty counterpart, were activated with the 66th Air Base Group to
May 20, 2020
Joint Base Charleston delivers Russia bound ventilators

A Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina C-17 Globemaster III, today, picked up 50 USAID-provided ventilators at March Air Reserve Base, Calif. and delivered them to Dover Air Force Base, Maryland. The mission is the first leg of a USAID mission to deliver 200 ventilators this month to Moscow.

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