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AFRC News

  • STARBASE Louisiana achieves another milestone

    You’ll have to excuse Easton Verheyden for seeming a little stunned. The Princeton Elementary student had no idea he was the 40,000th fifth-grader to enter the STARBASE Louisiana program when he stepped off the bus here Sept. 17.

  • Military leaders learn communication tactics at Triad Summit

    Communication is a concept that can be both simple and difficult, whether it be verbal or nonverbal, a person’s intent can be clouded. In the military, a squadron’s ability to complete the mission could hinge on its leaders’ success in communicating with each other properly.Air Force Reserve,

  • Flying to remain vigilant

    A 757th Airlift Squadron C-130H Hercules aircrew prepares for takeoff at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, Sept. 10, 2024. Aircrew took to the sky conducting essential combat readiness training needed for rapid reoptimization and the Great Power Competition. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt.

  • AFRC engages civic leaders to help tell the Reserve story

    The Air Force Reserve has long been recognized for its surge capacity and strategic roles and missions, but it also conducts unique activities exclusive to the AFR, such as aerial weather reconnaissance and aerial spray missions. Now, the organization is on a mission to highlight its broader

  • 434th OSS holds non-combat survival training

    U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jeremiah Oden, 434th Operations Support Squadron survival, evasion, resistance and escape noncommissioned officer in charge, eats a grasshopper during a non-combat training offered during the September UTA, Sept. 8, 2024, Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana. Oden told the

  • Air Force examines emerging tactics during Bamboo Eagle

    More than 10,000 personnel from the Department of Defense, the United Kingdom, and Australia participated in exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3, a combat-representative exercise including operational test and evaluation experts from the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron. The OT&E experts’ mission was to

  • 403rd Wing relocates aircraft, continues to fly Francine

    The Air Force Reserve’s 403rd Wing started relocating aircraft today as Tropical Storm Francine makes its way toward the Gulf Coast.The wing’s 815th Airlift Squadron, a tactical airlift unit, and the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, or Hurricane Hunters, are flying their C-130J Super Hercules