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AFRC News

  • Niagara community exercises accident response

    Members of the base along with local community emergency responders participated in a Major Accident Response Exercise here, June 27. This exercise is designed to evaluate the capability of the base to respond to a simulated accident involving mass casualties and evaluate the effectiveness of our

  • MacDill hosts total force decon exercise

    It’s rush hour and a 10,000-gallon fuel truck rolls over and spills highly flammable liquid over the roadway. Moments later, firefighters at the MacDill Air Force Base fire station jump into their boots and strap on their suspenders to the beat of the piercing siren. On scene, the firefighters meet

  • Sink 'r Swim: SERE instructors dive head first into training

    Their job is teach service members how to survive during worst-case scenarios so they can return home to their loved ones.Survival, Escape, Resistance and Evasion specialists equip aircrew members on how to do exactly that: survive, escape, resist and evade. And, learning those skills could make all

  • Charleston unit conducts mass deployment exercise

    More than 90 Airmen from the 300th Airlift Squadron at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, accomplished more than 500 training events during a mass deployment here, June 24 to 26.The exercise included basic water survival and combat training, both conducted by U.S. Air Force Survival, Evasion,

  • MacDill reservists return from SWA

    Chief Master Sgt. John Fill holds his daughter for the first time after returning from an extended deployment in southwest Asia on June 17, 2015 at MacDill Air Force Base. Fill is the Chief boom operator for the 63rd Air Refueling Squadron. Boom operators are responsible for extending the boom on a

  • MacDill reservist nominates boss for Patriot Award

    A local employer was presented the Patriot Award from the Florida Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve office here June 7. The Patriot Award is awarded to employers who go above and beyond to support the National Guard or Reserve military service of their employees.Senior Master Sgt. Nathaniel

  • Air Force marine patrol prevents suicidal drowning

    "Gearing up for work every day, we prepare for any number of different scenarios. We prepare ourselves physically and mentally to handle whatever we could encounter that day. We'd like to believe, here in the marine patrol, that we're ready for anything," explained Senior

  • Stickell takes helm at RIO

    Col. Carolyn Stickell formally assumed command as the Headquarters Individual Reservist Readiness and Integration Organization commander during a ceremony here June 24.Stickell became the second commander of HQ RIO following Col. Christopher Cronce’s move to the Pentagon, where he is now the deputy

  • Gourley retires after 37 years of service

    Maj. Gen. Craig Gourley (right) receives the Distinguished Service Medal from Maj. Gen. (ret) James Sluder, long time friend and comrade-in-arms, June 5 at the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas. Gourley served as the Deputy Inspector General of the Air Force, Office of the