MacDill Reservist commander gives back through softball

"Swing batter batter, swing batter batter... strike-three, you're out!" yells the umpire at home plate. These are both common things to hear while at a competitive fast-pitch softball game. Although, at the Pro Fast Pitch X-Treme (PFX) field near Orlando, Florida, you can also expect to hear Col.

AF Reserve announces senior leader changes

The Chief of Air Force Reserve announces the following senior leader actions:Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Kittler, from Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, 18th Air Force, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, to  Mobilization Assistant to the Commander/Commander, Joint Transportation Reserve Unit, United

Rescue wing assists in search for missing teen boaters

Air Force Reserve search and rescue personnel from the 920th Rescue Wing from Patrick Air Force Base joined the Coast Guard search for two 14-year-old boys reported missing, July 25, 2015.A rescue crew departed in one of the wing's HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters, July 28, at approximately 8 p.m. for a

Airmen showcase tanker mission at major airshow

While many people will never have the chance to fly a KC-135R Stratotanker or operate its boom pod, several can now say they know what it's like and a little more about the Air Force due to a group of volunteers from Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana.Eight Airmen from the 434th Air Refueling Wing

Chaplain Candidates visit Joint Base Charleston

Members come home from deployment, leave behind good deeds

Roughly 50 Airmen from Grissom's 434th Security Forces Squadron and 434th Civil Engineering Squadron returned home from a 180-day deployment to Southwest Asia July 21-22.The members were greeted by friends and family, and their smiles and cheers pierced air as they watched the KC-135 Stratotanker

Last 307 RHS mission benefits Autistic children

When the 307th RED HORSE shuts and locks the doors on Aug. 31, it will leave Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana with a living legacy of construction projects, both military and humanitarian, around the world for thousands to remember what it was.After being notified the unit would be inactivated,

August issue of Citizen Airman is online

The August issue of Citizen Airman is now available on the web  at Citizen Airman Magazine. The cover story is a Profiles in Leadership piece on Howard Cannon. Cannon survived a plane crash in World War II as a member of the Army Air Corps, attained the rank of major general in the Air Force Reserve

AWACS reservists team up with E-3 program managers

For the first time in the history of the E-3 Sentry, reservists from the 513th Air Control Group invited E-3 program managers from Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., on board to showcase the Block 40/45 upgrade during a training mission on July 19.The program managers, who are responsible for upgrades

Operation Patriot Angler gets off to cool start

Members of the  944th Fighter Wing departed Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, July 25, leaving behind temperatures closing in on the century mark for the balmy 65-degree weather at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. By Arizona standards, it was a cool start for the 944th Logistics Readiness