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AFRC News

  • Obama signs $633 billion defense authorization act

    President Barack Obama signed the $633 billion fiscal 2014 National Defense Authorization Act into law Dec. 26.The legislation allows the department to institute pay raises, bonuses and incentive pay, including a 1 percent pay raise for Air Force reservists and other military personnel. The act

  • Air Force's newest leader takes charge

    The Air Force's 23rd Secretary of the Air Force was formally sworn in, Dec. 20, in the Pentagon.Deborah James assumed the position of the Air Force's highest ranking leader, making her the second female in Air Force history to serve in the role. As James takes on her new duties, she said she knows

  • Obama-signed Bill Provides Military Pay, Bonuses

    President Barack Obama today signed House Resolution 3304, which provides pay and bonuses for U.S. service members, enhances counterterrorism efforts overseas, builds security capacities of key U.S. partner-nations, expands efforts to prevent sexual assault and strengthens protections for

  • Looking for trouble

    Master Sgt. Michael W. Rosato, Jr., 445th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron jet engine craftsman, looks for any damage or irregularity during a post flight inspection on a C-17A Globemaster III engine here Dec.17.

  • Youngstown family lends a hand with Toys for Tots

    Air Force Reserve Master Sgt. John Martinelli, an electrician assigned to the 910th Civil Engineer Squadron, loads a "Toys for Tots" collection box with a variety of toys at the Community Activity Center here, Dec. 19, 2013. Each year 910th Airlift Wing Citizen Airmen and Department of Defense

  • ARPC commander receives first star

    Col. Samuel C. Mahaney, Air Reserve Personnel Center commander, was confirmed by the Senate for appointment in the Reserve of the Air Force to the grade brigadier general under title 10, U.S.C., section 12203.Since date of rank coincides with the date Senate makes confirmations, Mahaney is

  • 47-year-old mom joins AF Reserve

    Imagine... your child just graduated high school and is deciding between college and the Air Force, but at 47-years-old, you join instead. That is exactly what Capt. Karen Stewart, a newly qualified flight nurse with the 315th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. did."After

  • Reservists juggle mission requirements and higher education

    Managing a full-time college course load can be hectic, but add the mission requirements of a reserve flying schedule and it can be downright difficult. Tech. Sgts. Shayne Katirgis and Kyle Simpson, reserve loadmasters with the 701st Airlift Squadron at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., managed to fit in

  • ARPC announces education board results

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials here announced selection results from the Enlisted Developmental Education Board for calendar year 2014.The selection board convened at Air Force Reserve Command, Robins AFB, Ga., Oct. 21 - 25 to match selected members to their respective schools based upon

  • Answering the call ... even during the holidays

    It's six days before Christmas and the last place I thought I would end up this week would be Scotland and Turkey. Welcome to being an Air Force reservist.When duty calls, there is never a perfect time and it always seems to occur when we have something pressing at our civilian job, a family