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AFRC News

  • Service members receiving RAND Military Workplace Survey

    About 580,000 service members have begun receiving emails or letters inviting them to participate in the first RAND Military Workplace Study, Defense Department officials said.Active and reserve component members in all military branches and the Coast Guard are being invited to participate. "The

  • Warthogs soar over Afghanistan

    U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft assigned to the 303rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, fly over Eastern Afghanistan and are refueld by a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron out of Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar July 10, 2014 The

  • Seminar delivers 'Growth through Knowledge'

    More than 150 Airmen of various ranks came together Aug. 7 for a two-day Professional Development Seminar at the American Lake Conference Center at Lewis North.Themed "Growth through Knowledge," the event focused on current trends that may influence Airmen, both in the reserve and active duty, and

  • Deployer's love for tea steeps through

    Little girls often dream of tea parties but for one little boy, tea was a labor of love.Tech. Sgt. Joseph Holton, 512th Memorial Affairs Squadron, said initially, he saw tea as more of a chore, because he had to make it for his mother all the time. "Growing up around it, I honestly didn't see it as

  • "Each component gives the AF its strength" CMSAF tells Tinker reservists

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody emphasized the importance of the active, Guard, reserve and civilian components during a visit with reservists from the 507th Air Refueling Wing and the 513th Air Control Group here Aug. 2."Anything that affects one component affects us all," the top

  • Buckley hosts IRR muster

    Buckley Air Force Base held an Air Force Individual Ready Reserve muster screening here Aug. 7. IRR musters are mandatory formations hosted by a Total Force Air Force installation commander and conducted at active duty, Guard and Reserve installations. Selected IRR members attending the one-day

  • 910th, Ohio Guard, ESGR team up for employer awareness event

    The Air Force Reserve's 910th Airlift Wing here, the Ohio National Guard and Ohio Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve co-presented the 2nd Annual Joint Employer Awareness Event, August 7- 8. The two-day event, designed to give civilian employers of Air Force Reservists and Ohio National

  • Citizen Airman aided in her drive for excellence

    Sixty miles is a long way to walk.Senior Airman Thelma Smith had few other options to make the trip from her parents' home in Grandview Missouri., to Whiteman Air Force Base for her weekend commitments with the Air Force Reserve. That changed Aug. 8.A recent divorce and a car with serious mechanical

  • DOD continues aid to combat wildfires in Northwest

    Two Defense Department C-130 Hercules equipped with U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, or MAFFS, and under the command and control of U.S. Northern Command are assisting with wildfire suppression efforts in the Northwest, Great Basin, and elsewhere in the West at the request

  • 910th Citizen Airmen, loved ones share Family Day 2014

    Citizen Airmen assigned to the Air Force Reserve's 910th Airlift Wing gathered together with family and friends for a day of camaraderie, food and fun during the wing's recent Family Day held here, August 3, 2014. Family day is an installation open house held for Servicemembers and their families,