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AFRC News

  • HQ RIO Det 6 commander, husband retire same day

    On July 17, Headquarters RIO lost 28 years of Individual Reserve management experience when the Detachment 6 commander retired. In a joint ceremony held in the Davis Conference Center at MacDill Air Force Base, Col. Malia Spranger, the Det. 6 commander, retired alongside her husband, Lt. Col. Kurt

  • Top off

    A B-52H Stratofortress pilot and copilot practice an aerial refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The B-52 is assigned to the Air Force Reserve Command's 307th Bomb Wing, which hosts the only schoolhouse where Reserve and Active Duty aircrew learn to fly the

  • Hurricane Hunters deploy to Hawaii to fly Guillermo

    The Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, assigned to the 403rd Wing at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, began flying data-gathering missions into Hurricane Guillermo from here Sunday.Hurricane Guillermo became a Category 2 storm Friday with maximum sustained winds of 105

  • Air Reserve Component fighting Western wildfires

    Two Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped aircraft arrived here from the Air Force Reserve Command's 302nd Airlift Wing, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., yesterday afternoon and started flying on the Rocky fire Northwest of Sacramento, Calif., the same day.They joined two Air National Guard

  • 307th RED HORSE inactivates after 44 years

    U. S. Air Force Colonel Timothy Lamb, commander of the 622th Civil Engineer Group, Dobbins Air Force Base, Ga, and Lt. Col. Charles Chapman, 307th RED HORSE commander of the furl and prepare to encase the unit’s flag, at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Aug. 2, 2015. During the inactivation ceremony,

  • Reserve B-52 aircrew is now “CONECT”ed

    Airmen from the 343rd Bomb Squadron here became the first Reserve aircrew to be qualified on the new combat network communications technology modification on the B-52H Stratofortress July 28. The aircrew, with the call sign "Chaos 43," is part of a Total Force Enterprise with the 96th Bomb Squadron,

  • Reserve medics train for prestigious combat badge

    Only about 17 percent of military medical personnel today successfully earn the Expert Field Medical Badge. And every year, a two-week intensive testing event at Joint Base Lewis-McChord  aims to expand the pool of medical professionals who wear the coveted badge.  This year, eight Airmen from the

  • Kids get a taste of deployment during Operation JET

    The 802nd Military and Family Readiness Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland held its annual Operation Junior Expeditionary Team (Operation JET) event here on July 31, to give children of service members the chance to experience a mock deployment. More than 200 children from throughout the JBSA

  • Rescue reservists support major air combat exercise

    More than 120 Air Force Reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing participated in RED FLAG, a realistic combat training exercise involving more than 3,000 personnel from the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, conducted here July 13-31.The rescue Reservists provided the majority of personnel recovery

  • Reserve C-130s called up to fight wildland fires

    The Air Force Reserve’s aerial fire-fighting unit was called up to join other Department of Defense assets to battle wildland fires in California and the Northwestern U.S. Aug 1.Two Modular Airborne Firefighting System-equipped C-130 Hercules, aircrews and support personnel from the 302nd Airlift