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AFRC News

  • Air Force looking for safety advisory council members

    The Air Force's chief of safety wants young people to sign up for the 2014 Airman-to-Airman Safety Advisory Council.Established in 2009, the council evaluates and seeks better ways to communicate safety efforts within the high-risk 17-26-year age group.Officers and enlisted Airmen in that age group

  • AF Reservist named top-shot in Schriever archery

    Tim Paget put an arrow through a 10-square-inch target from more than 50 yards away Aug. 23 at the Schriever Archery Range here. The shot earned applause from his fellow competitors even though it succeeded in eliminating all of them from the base's inaugural Schriever Archery Competition."That was

  • MAFFS C-130s deploy to California to aid firefighting effort

    The U.S. Forest Service, through the National Interagency Fire Center here, has ordered the three MAFFS aircraft operating at the Boise Air Tanker Base move to McClellan Air Tanker base near Sacramento, Calif., to assist the wildland firefighting effort in the western United States.In a request made

  • Reserve combat ops squadrons conclude Exercise UFG

    Reservists assigned to the 940th Wing, Beale Air Force Base, Calif., wrapped up exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian, a two-week joint and combined exercise here Aug 30. UFG, named in honor of a Korean military leader who repelled a Chinese invasion in the 7th century, is a computer simulated, command

  • Reserve intel squadron brings Total Force Integration concept to Hickam

    Ten communications specialists from the 50th Intelligence Squadron, Beale Air Force Base, Calif., completed two weeks of annual training at Distributed Ground Station 5, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Aug. 17-31.The arrival of the reserve DGS to work alongside an active duty squadron marked

  • March Reserve squadron supporting Korea exercise

    More than 75 members of the 701st Combat Operations Squadron from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., are here supporting Ulchi Freedom Guardian that began Aug. 26. UFG is an annual defense-oriented exercise developed around scenarios designed to defend the Republic of Korea, protect the region, and

  • Sequestration impacts felt throughout Air Force Reserve Command

    The impact of sequestration on readiness and morale has been felt widely throughout Air Force Reserve Command units.Under the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, across-the-board budget reductions, referred to as "sequestration," were initiated on March 1, 2013,

  • Niagara Falls hosts NHL trophies

    Chicago Blackhawks forward and south Buffalo native Pat Kane brought two National Hockey League trophies to Western New York Aug. 24.Arriving at Hangar 907 in a military Humvee, Kane brought the Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe Trophy to display in front of hundreds of enthusiastic hockey fans before a

  • Commission visits Tinker, gains insights from Airmen

    The National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force visited with National Guard, Air Force Reserve and active-duty members here Aug. 20 to get their perspectives on how best to shape the future force. The commission was established by Congress earlier this year to study the Air Force's three

  • Utah reservists tackle wartime readiness

    419th Fighter Wing Airmen broke out their chemical gear and brushed up on wartime readiness during an exercise here this weekend. As part of the exercise, reservists from units across the wing, including civil engineering, emergency management and medical, honed dozens of critical skills at a