Indiana flying wings team up with ESGR for boss lift

Indiana's Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard connect in the Hoosier skies every week offloading fuel and training to fight, but they recently connected for another mission - educating employers. Airmen from the 434th Air Refueling Wing at Grissom teamed up with those from the 122nd Fighter

916th ARW first to comply with commander's inspection program

The 916th Air Refueling Wing inspector general office recently became the first in Air Force Reserve Command to gain full compliance with the new Commander's Inspection Program, or CCIP. "This validates our team's commitment to the new program; we are very happy to have gained compliance first,"

Sky Country concert rescheduled for tonight

The local community is invited to a rescheduled free concert by the U.S. Air Force Band of the West's Sky Country at 7 p.m.This concert was moved to this evening due to last night's power outages, and will take place at the Museum of Aviation's Century of Flight Hangar. For more information or for

Luke aeromedical team cares for wounded warriors at Ramstein

A six-member team from the 944th Aeromedical Staging Squadron from Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, recently spent their two week annual tour at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, transporting injured military members and deployed civilians to care facilities. The Luke team worked with the doctors, nurses and

CARCAH manages storm requirements

A man sits in a small side room of the National Hurricane Center in Miami and scans a bank of computer monitors that stream satellite information, communications from weather reconnaissance aircraft, and the flight path data, when the phone rings with news of aircraft being denied clearance into

AFRC commander visits 307th Bomb Wing

Combat training helps Travis reservist save a life

It was the end of his unit training assembly weekend at Travis Air Force Base, Aug. 24, 2014, Master Sgt. Russ Wooten, 79th Air Refueling Squadron first sergeant, was headed home down Route 12 toward Modesto. He had his truck on cruise control at the speed limit, watching the road ahead. Suddenly a

Youngstown first AFRC unit to use new, safer docking system

The 910th Maintenance Squadron is the first Air Force Reserve Command installation to field the new Isochronal inspection docking system. The $1.5 million dock stand system is a complex array of mobile maintenance stands, designed to fit around a C-130 aircraft specifically for performing isochronal

Niagara Airmen load mobile dental clinic bound for Dominican Republic

Members of the 30th Aerial Port Squadron here loaded medical equipment onto a C-17 aircraft out of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, Aug. 26. A 36-foot motor home, converted into a mobile dental clinic was also part of the load destined for the Dominican Republic under the Denton Cargo

Hurricane Hunters, U.S. Naval Academy team up for research during 'Cristobal'