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AFRC News

  • Exercise Iniohos 17 kicks off in Greece

    U.S. Air Force Airmen and 12 F-16C Fighting Falcons from the 482nd Fighter Wing, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, began Exercise Iniohos 17, here, which will last until April 6.

  • From working on Falcons to being one

    Cadets at the prestigious United States Air Force Academy are known as “Falcons” and in three months a 482nd Fighter Wing Maintainer will go from working on the F-16 Fighting Falcon, to being an Academy Falcon. Airman 1st Class Joel Bernal, 22, has been selected as one of approximately 1,000

  • Miller Testifies at HASC Readiness Hearing

    Senior Air Force leaders were on Capitol Hill March 22 to testify and answer questions about top-priority readiness needs and challenges facing the Air Force. Chairman Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina), Rep. Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) and other members of Congress heard testimony during the House Armed

  • Gulf Coast Civic Leaders witness total force, innovation

    The 403rd Wing’s WC-130J Super Hercules aircraft may look like a giant sweeping across the Gulf Coast skies, but when it parked at Joint Base San Antonio yesterday it was dwarfed by the 433rd Airlift Wing’s C-5M Super Galaxy.

  • History, heritage honored

    “History makes us smart and heritage makes us proud,” said Dave Toliver, Archer-Ragsdale Arizona Chapter past president, Mar. 23 during a ceremony celebrating the fourth annual Commemoration Day for the Tuskegee Airmen in Arizona.The ceremony took place at the Tuskegee Airman Memorial Park, where a

  • Father and son train together

    Altus Air Force Base trains new aircrew members every day, but on March 17, a father and son were reunited during a training mission together, 21,000 feet in the air.U.S. Air Force Col. Craig Peters, 940th Air Refueling Wing commander, piloted a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker and had the chance

  • Training fuels confidence

    The 446th Aerospace Medicine Squadron out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord was trained during their annual tour at Naval Medical Center San Diego’s Medical Surgical Simulation Center.