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AFRC News

  • Reservist re-enlists at center ice

    Senior Master Sgt. Robert Gaspar, 507th Operations Support Squadron, takes the oath of enlistment from Maj. Charles Hicks, 507th OSS, March 15. The re-enlistment, the last for Gaspar, took place at center ice before the Oklahoma City Barons hockey game. Also on hand presenting the colors was the

  • Big brother hands over mission to little brother

    As a service member's deployment comes to an end, one of the biggest concerns is to set their replacement up for success. For Staff Sgt. David Rippy, his replacement is his brother, Senior Airman Mark Rippy, both reservists deployed from the 315th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Charleston Air Force

  • Niagara Falls Gulf War veterans gather at squadron

    Prior to the March Unit Training Assembly here, a few of the 328th Airlift Squadron Airmen noticed something about their wingmen attending a routine intelligence brief."During the brief we looked around and we noticed we had the highest number of Desert Storm veterans attending," said Lt. Col. Glen

  • Reserve C-17 crew diverts mission to help sick child

    A 445th Airlift Wing C-17 Globemaster III was on a routine passenger movement mission March 7 when it was diverted to Yokota Air Base, Japan, to pick up a sick 2-year old child that needed to be transported to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, for medical treatment.The original mission called for the

  • YARS air show coordinator talks "Thunder" with chamber

    Air Force Reserve Maj. Jay Ference, 910th Operations Group YARS air show coordinator and Holly Baker, a member of the Youngstown Air Reserve Base-Community Council's air show planning committee, talked to a member of the Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce's Take 5 media team here, March

  • ARPC announces Reserve School Selection Board results

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials here announced selection results from the semi-annual CY14A Reserve School Selection Board. The selection board convened at the center Feb. 3-7 to match selected members to their respective schools based upon the needs of the Air Force Reserve followed by

  • Command wins awards in Air Force Media Contest

    Air Force Reserve Command Airmen and civilian employees took four first-place, five second-place and four third-place awards in the 2013 Air Force Media Contest.Results of the contest were announced in an email March 13. "The contest is designed to inspire and reward excellence and professionalism

  • Air Force Reserve doctor volunteers at science fair

    When an Air Force Reserve doctor assigned to the 624th Aeromedical Staging Squadron here received a phone call asking if he would serve as a judge at the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools District Science & Engineering Fair at Ioloni School in Honolulu, he did not hesitate to say, "Yes!"

  • Space wing reservists showcase grit, heritage during combat dining in

    An obstacle course, squirt guns, riot shields and blue flight suit "throwbacks." Oh, and Spartans guarding a grog bowl.It was all-out war between the squadrons of the 310th Space Wing March 1 during the wing's Combat Dining In/Annual Award Banquet at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. The event brought

  • Mud fun: Reserve 'Mudruckers' hit the pits again

    Several reservists with the 315th Airlift Wing here took a break from unit training assembly activities March 8, to run, splash and crawl through the mud on the Boone Hall Farms Rugged Maniac 5K course here.This was a repeat appearance for the "Mudruckers," who completed their first obstacle-style