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AFRC News

  • 913th Airlift Group Gets Black-Letter Status

    It happens less frequently than a blue moon, and is rarer than a no-hitter in Major League Baseball, but black-letter initials do happen, and the 913th Airlift Group’s Maintenance Squadron made sure it did July 28. A black-letter initial is just that, a crew chief’s initial with black ink on an

  • DOD increases C-130 support for California fires

    The National Interagency Fire Center has made the request to increase the number of DOD Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130s aiding in the suppression of California wildland fires from two to four Aug. 14.Two Air Force Reserve MAFFS equipped C-130 Hercules from the 302nd Airlift

  • Patrick Airman is top Reserve honor guard member

    A 920th Rescue Wing reservist has been chosen as the top honor guard Airman in Air Force Reserve Command.Tech. Sgt. Thomas Tantius, a services craftsman with the 920th Force Support Squadron here, received the AFRC Honor Guard Member of the Year for 2014."I'm very humbled," said Tantius on being

  • Next generation biocontainment system unveiled at Dobbins

    The next generation in biocontainment systems was unveiled in a ceremony Aug. 11 at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia.The 94th Airlift Wing was chosen by the Department of State as the host unit for the Containerized Biocontainment Systems because of the installations proximity to world-class

  • Team Indiana Bosslift gives employers military overview

    From billows of smoke to billowy clouds, employers from Indiana and beyond got into the trenches and high above the Earth for a glimpse of military life.Fifty-two employers visited Grissom Aug. 7-8, 2015 for an employer orientation experience designed to show them just what military members do when

  • 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,