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AFRC News

  • 820th IS Airmen clean SR-71

    Airmen from the 820th Intelligence Squadron, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, clean an SR-71 on display at the SAC Aerospace Museum Oct. 3, 2017.

  • Won’t get hosed again: Dobbins technician helps fix C-5

    Anyone who’s had their car breakdown knows it always seems to happen at the most inopportune time. The same can be true for aircraft flying important missions on strict deadlines.A C-5M Super Galaxy here experienced a mechanical issue last week when it was delayed due to an equipment malfunction.

  • Recruiting Service adding recruiters to address maintenance shortage

    In a move designed to increase the number of maintenance air reserve technicians, the Air Force Reserve Command Recruiting Service and Directorate of Logistics, Engineering and Force Protection, known as A4, have teamed up to create a group of recruiters dedicated to the ART mission."Maintenance

  • Small Reserve unit restores air traffic in Puerto Rico

    As Hurricane Maria battered the U.S. Virgin Island St. Croix, a small Reserve unit from Oklahoma raced to Puerto Rico on Sept. 19, 2017, to evacuate air traffic controllers before the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in 85 years made landfall.

  • AFRC leadership thanks Citizen Airmen for hurricane rescue efforts

    Air Force Reserve Command leadership spent the day visiting 920th Rescue Wing Reserve Citizen Airmen Oct. 2, to personally thank them for their hard work during and after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.Lt. Gen. Maryanne Miller, chief of Air Force Reserve, Maj. Gen. Kenneth D. Lewis Jr., AFRC director of

  • Texas C-5M delivers supplies to Puerto Rico

    In the aftermath of three devastating hurricanes that struck Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean region of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Citizen Airmen of Air Force Reserve Command’s 433rd Airlift Wing flew their 17th mission in a C-5M Super Galaxy in less than a month to answer their nation’s call for

  • 'Double Trouble' in training

    On a typical drill weekend morning, Master Sgt. Carl VanDiver, 94th Airlift Wing development and training flight program manager and instructor, leads fitness workouts for the flight. On this particular day, he noticed one trainee whose hair was out of regulations. Since his responsibilities include

  • Communication equipment loaded onto C-5 at Dobbins, headed for Puerto Rico

    A C-5M Super Galaxy from Dover Air Force Base, Delaware landed here to provide airlift for AT&T communication equipment and technicians Oct. 2 and Oct. 4.The airlift mission provided critical infrastructure restoration in support of life-saving activities underway in Puerto Rico.Many of the island’s