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AFRC News

  • 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

  • Commander speaks at A/TA Convention

    Lt. Gen. James F. Jackson, chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander, Air Force Reserve Command, speaks about the future of the Air Force Reserve during the 47th Annual Airlift/Tanker Association Convention in Orlando, Fla., Oct. 31. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Shandresha Mitchell/Released)

  • Former AFR commander passes

    Maj. Gen. (retired) Homer “Pete” Lewis, 96, who served as Chief of Air Force Reserve and Air Force Reserve commander simultaneously, passed away Oct. 21, 2015 in Eagle Pass, Texas. “Lewis believed life was a ‘grand adventure,’ and he lived every day to its fullest,” said Lt. Gen. James Jackson,