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AFRC News

  • 5th Flying Training Squadron pilot to compete in 20th Air Force Marathon

    Maj. Christina Hopper, a traditional reservist T-38 instructor pilot with the 5th Flying Training Squadron at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, will be one of the 10 marathon runners representing the nearly 70,000 Air Force reservists in the 20th Air Force Marathon Sept 17 at Wright-Patterson Air

  • VLPAD adds multiple career fields, vacancies

    The Air Force’s Voluntary Limited Period of Active Duty program, or VLPAD, has added a number of career fields for selected air reserve component line of the Air Force officers.   For three years and one day, Reserve and Air National Guard officers from certain Air Force specialties can fill vacant

  • #BeThere, before the call

    When the phone rings in the middle of the night, it’s like an alarm going off in your brain. No one calls at one in the morning to say they were “just thinking of you.”   I received one of those calls 13 years ago and woke to my mom telling me my dad had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The

  • Airmen participate in 24-hour 9/11 stair climb

    An Airman carries an American flag up a flight of stairs during a 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb event held at Duke Field, Fla., Sept. 10. The 24-hour climb began at 8:46 a.m. with the 919th Special Operations Wing commander walking the flag up the outside stairwell of the base’s billeting facility.

  • 815th Airlift Squadron flies four-ship training mission

    The 815th Airlift Squadron “Flying Jennies”, an Air Force Reserve unit assigned to the 403rd Wing here, flew a four-aircraft training exercise today, their first multi-element training mission since the squadron found out in 2015 that it was no longer scheduled for inactivation.The 815th AS is a

  • 403rd Wing activates new maintenance unit

    A new chapter began today with the activation of the 403rd Wing’s newest maintenance unit during a ceremony at the Consolidated Roberts Aircraft Maintenance Facility.Maj. Brian Horton assumed command of the 803rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, which is responsible for the inspection, repair, launch

  • Charleston reservists search biases with help from Google.

    The 315th Airlift Wing, in conjunction with Google, conducted bias and inclusion training for wing senior leaders on Sept. 9, 2016.“This training came about by partnering with our local business leaders,” said Col. Greg Gilmour, 315th Airlift Wing commander.  “The training that was conducted was

  • A day not like any other

    “The day started like any other day, wake up, make coffee and roll into work,” said Malone “Bubba” Smith, 301st Fighter Wing anti-terrorism officer.

  • Grissom remembers 9/11

    More than 500 Grissom Airmen, firefighters and civilians joined Americans around the world Sept. 11, to pay their remember and pay their respect to the victims of 9/11.

  • Running toward goal

    Going the extra mile is nothing new to Staff Sgt. Christian Enriquez, a Citizen Airman assigned to 944th Fighter Wing Detachment 1 as an F-16 avionics craftsman. He thrives on it.On September 17, Enriquez will be 1 of 10 marathon runners who will be representing the nearly 70,000 Air Force