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AFRC News

  • Grissom cuts ‘ribbon’ on new fire training facility

    Witha pull of the trigger and a snip of a fire hose, base officials officiallyopened a new fire training facility here November 9.Standing in for aribbon was a four-inch piece of scrap fire hose, and pnuedraulic shears uppedthe ante on the scissor portion of the cutting.Col. Doug Schwartz, 434thAir

  • Cyber gladiator battles community need

    One of the 960th Cyber Operations Group's CyberGladiators is battling community need by going above and beyond as an avidvolunteer.Maj. Brett Bonin, a Cyber Command & Control Mission Systemsenior duty officer, assigned to the 854th Combat Operations Squadron here, is athree-time awardee of the

  • Board meets to advise command chief

    Air Force Reserve Command’s command chief master sergeant got a helpful staff assistance visit when the bi-annual Reserve Enlisted Board of Directors convened here Nov. 2-4. The board was made up of 17 chief and senior master sergeants who serve as senior advisers to Chief Master Sgt. Cameron

  • Benefits of Thrift Savings Plan

    The Thrift Savings Plan provides military members a 401(k)-like savings plan, which allows members to contribute pre-tax dollars thereby reducing current taxes, and accumulating long-term, tax-deferred savings and earnings, which can supplement future retirement income.Participation is convenient

  • Symposium serves Citizen Airmen

    Nearly 1,500 Mobility Airmen and civilian partners came together at the Marriott World Center here for the 2015 Airlift/Tanker Association Convention and the Air Mobility Command and A/TA Symposium & Technology Exposition, Oct. 29-Oct. 31.The symposium serves as a key professional development forum

  • Command Chief speaks to veterans

    Chief Master Sgt. Cameron Kirksey, Air Force Reserve Command command chief, receives a plaque from Darlene Dew, United States Penitentiary Atlanta warden, after his Veteran’s Day speech at USP Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 5, 2015. Kirksey spoke to a crowd of around 150 U.S. Armed Force veterans and law

  • Hill Total Force F-16s rotate to Afghanistan

    About 400 Airmen from Hill Air Force Base are currently serving on a six-month deployment to Afghanistan to carry out F-16 operations.Nearly 70 reservists from the 419th Fighter Wing and their active-duty counterparts in the 388th Fighter Wing arrived at Bagram Airfield Oct. 28 in support of

  • Awkward look leads to life-saving CPR

    The awkward look on his neighbor’s face was all it took for SeniorMaster Sgt. James Hartzog to leap into life-saving action.Hartzog was driving home from lunch with his brother when henoticed the grimace, then the collapse, as his neighbor dropped to the groundwhile mowing the lawn. He quickly

  • Review board

    Maj. Gen. Richard S. "Beef" Haddad, Vice Commander, Air Force Reserve Command, Robins Air Force Base, Ga and Maj. Gen. Maryanne Miller, deputy to the chief of the Air Force Reserve, Headquarters U.S. Air Force Washington, D.C co-host the Active Guard Reserve review board with Air Reserve Personnel

  • Rocket warriors support GPS launch

    Air Force Reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, secured the Eastern Range prior to the U.S. Air Force's eleventh launch of a Boeing-built Global Positioning System IIF satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Space Launch Complex 41, here Oct. 31 at