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AFRC News

  • Long-time weather recon crewmembers retire

    A WC-130J Super Hercules aircraft landed on the Keesler Air Force Base runway and taxied to its parking spot in front of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron where a crowd watched the engines shut down and the propellers come to a slow halt.Lt. Col. Troy “Bear” Anderson and Lt. Col. Valerie

  • October issue of Citizen Airman is now online

    The October issue of Citizen Airman magazine is available at http://www.citamn.afrc.af.mil/. The cover story reminds reservists that even though state laws regarding marijuana use are changing, weed and the armed forces still don't mix.

  • ISR Airman honored during AFA Conference

    Staff Sgt. Aaron Tobler was one of the Air Force's 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year recognized during the Air Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber Conference in Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2016. Tobler is a geospatial intelligence analyst with the 50th Intelligence Squadron, Beale Air Force

  • Freedom Award nomination season opens Oct. 1

    Army 1st Sergeant John Zagyva’s employer lobbied for changes in state law to allow differential pay for deployed Guard and Reserve service members. Tech. Sgt. Daniel Mills’ employer participates in Warrior Yoga sessions with his military employees to address PTSD and other service-related issues.

  • Alamo Express provides mission essential training

    More than 100 Airmen from the 433rd Airlift Wing with Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland arrived at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas to participate in the exercise Alamo Express Sept. 15-19, 2016. The Alamo Express is the 433rd AW’s premier training exercise, which prepares Airmen for real-world

  • Chiefs' longtime rivalry still going strong

    A sit-down interview with two chief master sergeants at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, recently mirrored a casting call for the next rendition of a “Grumpier Old Men” movie. The lightning fast quips and slams shared between Bryan Ford and Robert Wright dates back to the 1980s, when the two lived

  • #BeThere: for yourself and your wingman

    I survived two suicides. In 2015, the person I was seeing ended his own life. A few weeks later I tried to do the same. I am telling you this because I feel that transparency is the best way for me to help others who are going through what I experienced. I’ve learned a lot through my healing

  • Reservists, Guardsmen provide surge support to Great Basin fires

    The 2016 Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System Air Expeditionary Group along with two Air Reserve Component MAFFS-equipped C-130 aircraft completed a month-long activation in support of aerial fire suppression missions in the Western U.S., Sept. 3, 2016. This year’s MAFFS activation began when a

  • Expeditionary exercise trains Security Forces

    As part of a large-scale Field Training Exercise put together by the 446th Security Forces Squadron, more than 50 members from Joint Base Lewis-McChord conducted a large-scale Field Training Exercise September 8 - 11th.