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AFRC News

  • National Guard (in Federal status) and Reserve activated as of April 22

    The Army National Guard, Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and Air Force Reserve announced this week a decrease in activated National Guard members and reservists, while the Air National Guard and Coast Guard Reserve announced an increase of activated reservists. The net collective

  • Hurricane Hunters participate in aeromedical evacuation training

    One day they could be flying a storm mission through a Category Five hurricane, and another they could be flying an aeromedical evacuation mission in support of global contingencies. As part of their training for these medical flights, members of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron "Hurricane

  • Westover to lose aircraft, personnel

    Air Force officials announced Monday that half of the 439th Airlift Wing's C-5 fleet - and more than 300 jobs here - will be cut as a result of Pentagon budget cuts and sequestration.While the host unit 439th AW flies 16 C-5B models, eight C-5s will transfer from Westover to Joint Base San

  • McChord reservist sings during Mariners' Salute to Service game

    A baseball tradition was thrown a curve ball during a recent Seattle Mariners game when a 446th Airlift Wing Reservist replaced "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" with "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch.On April 26, members of the U.S. military combined forces with America's pastime

  • Hill fighter wings prep to receive F-35A

    The 419th Fighter Wing annual training here is providing reservists and their active-duty counterparts in the 388th FW with immersion training on the Air Force's newest fighter jet, the F-35A Lightning II. Airmen from Hill's fighter wings, including pilots, maintainers, logisticians, and support

  • Hill's F-16s take first flights alongside F-35s

    F-16 pilots from Hill's 419th and 388th Fighter Wings took to the skies here this morning for their first training missions alongside the F-35A Lightning II, the Air Force's newest fighter aircraft. Hill's F-16s flew air-to-air combat training missions with F-35As assigned to Eglin's 33rd Fighter

  • Command garners maintenance & logistics readiness awards

    Representatives from Air Force Reserve Command units were among the winners of 2013 Air Force Maintenance and Logistics Readiness awards.William H. Mayfield Jr. of the 908th Maintenance Squadron, Maxwell AFB, Ala., was selected the top aircraft maintenance civilian technician in the Lieutenant

  • A glimpse at the command's Airmen of the Year

    Here is a glimpse at the accomplishments of the Air Force Reserve Command Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2013. The winners who will represent the command in Air Force competition later this year are: First Sergeant - Senior Master Sgt. Eric Smith, 433rd Security Forces Squadron, JB San

  • 926th AMDS trains Philippine military on combat medical care

    Members from the 926th Aerospace Medicine Squadron helped teach the Armed Forces of the Philippines life-saving measures here March 19 through April 2. The six-person team joined forces with the Medical Detachment of the Guam Army National Guard and the 624th Aeromedical Staging Squadron from Joint

  • Altus, McConnell AFBs selected to receive KC-46A Pegasus aircraft

    Air Force officials announced April 23, that Altus Air Force Base, Okla., is the Air Force's KC-46A Pegasus formal training unit and McConnell AFB, Kan., is the first active duty-led Pegasus main operating base."The KC-46A Pegasus aerial tanker remains one of our top three acquisition priorities,"