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AFRC News

  • CSAF: Taking care of Airmen, future roadmap key to AF success

    Getting top performing Airmen promoted sooner, changing the enlisted performance report system, streamlining the enlisted and officer professional education programs and developing a roadmap for the Air Force for the next three decades were some of the topics discussed by the Air Force's top officer

  • SecAF outlines top priorities during 'State of AF' address

    After her second month in office, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James laid out her top three priorities as part of a "state of the Air Force" address, during the final day of the 30th annual Air Force Association Warfare Symposium and Technology Exposition Feb. 21.James laid out the path

  • Hagel talks with troops about 2015 Defense budget request

    In spotless aircraft hangars at two different military bases in southeastern Virginia yesterday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stood before several hundred airmen and soldiers, highlighting priorities in the Defense Department's fiscal year 2015 budget request and taking questions.The budget request

  • 315th AW Airmen named one of Charleston's top business professionals

    He is often seen with camera in hand at special events during a unit training assembly here, but like many reservists he also has a full-time civilian job during the week. Senior Airman Bobby Pilch is a public affairs specialist at the 315th Airlift Wing.But at his "day job" he is the government and

  • Statement by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Afghanistan

    "At President Obama's direction, and with my strong support, the Department of Defense will move ahead with additional contingency planning to ensure adequate plans are in place to accomplish an orderly withdrawal by the end of the year should the United States not keep any troops in Afghanistan

  • DOD reports decrease in activated AF Reservists this week

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

  • Yellow Ribbon benefits 1 million-plus in first 6 years

    The Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program has already assisted more than 1.1 million Guard and Reserve service members and their loved ones since it began in 2008 as an operation of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs.Geared toward assisting everyone affected by

  • Hagel Outlines Budget Reducing Troop Strength, Force Structure

    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has proposed cuts in military spending that include further reductions in troop strength and force structure in every military service in the coming year as part of an effort to prioritize U.S. strategic interests in the face of reduced resources after more than a

  • DOD takes holistic view of slowing military compensation growth

    The Defense Department can no longer put off slowing the growth of military personnel costs, and the fiscal year 2015 budget request DOD is recommending to the president begins that process, defense leaders said here today.Saying they are ready to take on the hard task of curbing growth in

  • San Antonio reservist competes in regional Golden Gloves tourney

    When Senior Airman Dustin "Spydaman" Southichack is not busting bugs, he's throwing punches in the ring as the only reservist on the Air Force Boxing Team.Like the superhero Spiderman, the 433rd Civil Engineer Squadron pest management specialist is weaving a web that will carry him to the next level