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AFRC News

  • ACC releases F-16 accident report

    One pilot’s landing, lack of comprehensive braking and flight path deconfliction, combined with a second pilot’s delayed transition to the correct side of the runway led to the collision of two F-16C aircraft on the Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, runway Aug. 15, 2015, according to an Accident

  • AFRC announces 2015 Chaplain Corps awards

    Air Force Reserve Command has announced the 2015 Air Force Reserve Chaplain Corps awards.Headquarters Air Force Chaplain Corps Awards:Thoralf T. Thielen Award for the Outstanding Reserve Chaplain of the Year, Chaplain (Capt.) Quanika Bynum, 42nd Air Base Wing/HC, Maxwell Air Force Base,

  • First AFRC tanker goes digital at Tinker

    The 507th Air Refueling Wing here is the first Air Force Reserve Command unit to receive the new KC-135 Block 45 upgrade, an improvement to the flight deck that provides flight crews with an updated autopilot and digital panels that eliminate analog instrument gauges by consolidating the outdated

  • AF Reserve, ANG Airmen prepare for 2016 wildland fire season

    More than 400 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Airmen from across the country gathered May 2-6 to be certified on the military’s Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, known as MAFFS, in preparation for the 2016 wildland fire season.Airmen from four ANG wings, together with the AF Reserve’s

  • Hill F-35s form up for combat training

     F-35 pilots here began flying routine four-ship combat training missions at the Utah Test and Training range in the west desert this week.Active duty and Reserve pilots from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings will use the jet’s intricate computer network to evade a series of simulated threats.

  • A5A8 provides strategic planning for today, tomorrow

    Logistics and support mission planning was once referred to as the task of ensuring members of the services had “beds, beans and bullets” – all the essentials they needed to get the job done. Now, for the young Airmen at the wing level who perform the daily work of the Air Force Reserve, logistics

  • Election season playbook for political activities

    Election season has kicked-off.  Whether you root for donkeys, elephants or some other breed of political persuasion, the following rules of the game should guide your political participation as we move to the November election:For active-duty membersThe Department of Defense strongly encourages

  • Team Dobbins competes in Savage Race

    Your heart is pumping, adrenaline rushing, and you’re pushing to your limit as you trek through an unfamiliar, wooded terrain. Your wingmen are at your side experiencing the same challenges, but still encouraging you to press forward. Your shoes are full of mud, your clothes soaked and clinging to

  • Dobbins Civilian Personnel Office best in AFRC five years running

    Air Force Reserve Command announced the winners of the 2015 Installation/Program awards April 2016.The 94th Force Support Squadron Civilian Personnel Office here was named Civilian Personnel Program of the Year, marking the fifth consecutive year the office has won the award.“They are people that