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AFRC News

  • Citizen Airmen support milestone recycled rocket launch

    SpaceX made history March 30 with the successful launch of a reused Falcon 9 rocket, marking the first time a commercial company has been able to send a previously-launched rocket into space a second time.   SpaceX launched SES-10 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in

  • Marking Change: Capt. Kim Burford

    She saw her. The scared little girl was only five or six years old. The girl needed her help, having possibly never sought dental care before. The tiny patient was in pain. Her mother tried to calm her, but she did not understand. The young dentist tried to sooth her fears, but did not prevail. Her

  • 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