Twin brothers embrace double vision at ARPC

Members at the Air Reserve Personnel Center have been seeing double since Senior Airmen Evan and Adam Van Horn were assigned here. Although the twins are fraternal, it's difficult to tell them apart.Their journey began in May when Evan began working as a points management agent on Reserve Personnel

76th Port Dawgs prep humanitarian cargo for shipment to Guatemala

Citizen Airmen from the 910th Airlift Wing's 76th Aerial Port Squadron here played an important part in building a pediatric hospice in Guatemala without ever leaving Northeast Ohio. The squadron lent a hand to the Austintown, Ohio, nonprofit Mission of Love Foundation, in transporting a wide array

ARPC announces CY14 Air National Guard lieutenant colonel and major promotion selection boards

Air Reserve Personnel Center officials here announced results for the 2014 Air National Guard lieutenant colonel and major promotion selection boards today. The selection boards convened at the center April 7 to determine those officers qualified to assume the next higher grade. Board members

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Niagara firefighter provides life saving interventions

Quick reaction and ingenuity by an Air Force Reserve emergency medical technician who witnessed a multiple vehicle accident helped save a life.Joseph Allen, a Department of Defense civilian employee with the Niagara Falls ARS Fire Emergency Services and a senior airman in the 914th Airlift Wing, put

Bomb blast survivor shares experience

He saw the flash of light and felt the wind, but he didn't hear the blast. Still the truck bomb that destroyed the living quarters known as Khobar Towers and killed 19 Airmen on June 25, 1996, picked up Senior Airmen Lee Wright, threw him across the room and covered him in glass and metal debris.Now

446th AW faces potential manpower cuts in FY15 Presidential Budget

The 446th Airlift Wing here faces a potential reduction of roughly 172 manpower sanctions by Dec. 5, 2014, pending Congressional approval of the Fiscal Year 2015 Presidential Budget.The manpower figures, reported in March, would reduce McChord's C-17 fleet from 42 to 36, placing the other six into

Reserve KC-10 tanker aircrew trains with RAF fighter pilots

A KC-10A aircrew from the 78th Air Refueling Squadron here refueled several Royal Air Force Typhoon GR4Fs over the North Sea June 6 during an infrequent air refueling training mission. The Typhoons were from the RAF 6 and 1(F) Squadrons, RAF Leuchars, United Kingdom.  The training is vitally

Hurricane Hunters, 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron team up for life-saving training

The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron's Hurricane Hunters based in Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, and the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron here have vastly different missions; however, the one thing they do have in common is saving lives.The two Air Force Reserve Command units paired

Air Force reservist recognized as AFRL's best in Colorado

Aurora Chamber of Commerce officials, and other local organizations, honored Staff Sgt. Iris Morales as the Reservist of the Year in the Air Force Reserve category during the 38th Annual Armed Forces Recognition Luncheon at the Double Tree by Hilton hotel here June 13."I want everybody here to