Military children treated to breakfast with Santa, visit with Olympic competitors

Most kids wake up to breakfast with family and loved ones. Yet, for a special group of military children Dec. 14, that breakfast included a unique visitor all the way from the North Pole.It was Santa Claus himself who joined Airmen and Soldiers and their families from across the Colorado Springs

Yellow Ribbon maintains course at Youngstown despite funding issues

A Yellow Ribbon event was held at the Community Activity Center here Dec. 8 after funding issues prevented Youngstown Airmen from attending the event in Orlando, Fla. Organizes held the local even to offer access to the same resources and remind Airmen that they are not forgotten. "Yellow Ribbon

Operation Damayan bridges reservist's past to present

For Staff Sgt. Jennyrose Whitney, the U.S. military's recent humanitarian assistance to  typhoon-ravaged regions of the Philippines had a very personal significance. As a young girl, Whitney lived in the Philippines. The personnel specialist with the 713th Combat Operations Squadron, Det 1, at Joint

Beale reservists spend holiday assisting with Operation Damayan

Thanksgiving is a huge event for Maj. Christopher Hetrick's family. But the annual gathering of four generations of relatives went on without the Air Force reservist this year. Hetrick, a civilian product engineer in the San Francisco Bay area and an Air Force Reserve operations planner, was one of

AF envisions smaller force to preserve readiness

Discussing upcoming budgetary variables during a Pentagon news conference today, the Air Force's top civilian leader for the past six months addressed the inevitability of a smaller force.Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning, who is returning next week to his position as undersecretary of the Air

Charleston reserve wing first to successfully complete AFRC inspection under new system

The 315th Airlift Wing successfully completed its first ever unit effectiveness inspection here Dec. 11 with an overall rating of "effective" after receiving two "effective" and two "highly effective" assessments in the inspection's four major graded areas.The UEI is a new concept for the Air Force

AFRC commissions artist to document heroism

Maj. Warren Neary, an Individual Mobilization Augmentee historian, was commissioned by the Air Force Reserve Command's History Office to paint scenes of Air Force Airman who were recognized during the 2013 Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference. Neary, a civil-servant historian at Scott

Grissom reservists help send relief to Haiti

Air Force reservists here partnered with Airmen from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., and Joint Base Charleston, S.C., to provide more than 45,000 pounds of food to Haiti as part of a humanitarian relief mission under the Denton Program, Dec. 7. The Denton Program is a Department of Defense

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Hurricane season ends, slowest since 1966

Nov. 30 marked the end of the slowest hurricane season since 1966 for the 403rd Wing's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, better known as the Hurricane Hunters."It was a very, very slow hurricane season," said Lt. Col. Jon Talbot, 53rd WRS chief meteorologist.  "Despite the predictions for an