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AFRC News

  • Rescue Reservists land in Horn of Africa and Afghanistan

    Two groups of Citizen Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing deployed to two overseas locations to provide personnel recovery support to ongoing operations.  A group of fixed-wing aviator, maintenance and support personnel landed in Africa for four months as part of Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of

  • Maintenance crews swap out rescue choppers for combat ops

    Combat is hard on the body; it’s especially hard on the body of military choppers flown over Afghanistan’s jagged mountains and through its never-ending dust. To ensure the flying safety of Air Force choppers used to save lives in combat, maintenance crews from the 920th Rescue Wing swap out an

  • Medal of Honor recipient visits Patrick AFB

    It's not everyday you get to meet someone who's been featured on a postage stamp. On Jan. 31, 2017, personnel from Patrick Air Force Base gathered to hear from a special visitor whose likeness was placed on the top right-hand corner of millions of envelopes sent through the U.S. postal system, Medal

  • Afghan maintainers level up

    As the train, advise and assist missions continue in Afghanistan, the Afghan Air Force is taking the lead from Coalition in supporting ground troops through air power. Maintenance air advisors from Train, Advise, Assist Command-Air (TAAC-Air), 440th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, are working

  • Reservists construct $3M 911 call center

    Five Reservists from the 507th Civil Engineer Squadron here are expected to complete construction on a 1,500 sq. ft. emergency 911 call center by April 1.The call center is located within Bldg. 7017, which also houses the 72nd Security Forces Headquarters and Station 4 of Tinker Fire and Emergency

  • Reservist becomes ‘Good Samaritan’ during car accident

    Staff Sgt. Devin Smith, a Citizen Airman from Fort Worth, apparently has a “knack” for being in the wrong place at the right time.Such was the case January 19 when he was driving behind a 16-year-old girl named Aspen Ballesteros who hit the gravel shoulder, over corrected, and flipped her truck –