ARPC receives Air Force Organizational Excellence Award

Headquarters, Air Reserve Personnel Center was recently awarded the Air Force Organizational Excellence Award for exceptionally meritorious service from Oct. 1, 2010 to Sept. 30, 2012.During this period, the center's strategic vision, new information technology system support and integrated

Beale welcomes Reserve's newest RED HORSE squadron

Air Force Reserve Command's 22nd Air Force stood up the 583rd RED HORSE during a ceremony here July 13.The ceremony introduced the newest RED HORSE (Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers), in the Air Force Reserve and the first located on the West Coast."Today is a

McChord maximizing training on every mission

With cuts putting the squeeze on the Air Force budget, Reservists at the 446th Airlift Wing here are maximizing training opportunities to get the most out of every mission.In May and June, aircrew Reservists completed flight training tasks while also carrying rice and beans to Haiti on a

McConnell TFI team performs rare maintenance task

A total force initiative team of crew chiefs here got to repair a KC-135 Stratotanker rear verticle stabliizer, a task normally performed at a depot-level repair facility. Maintainers from the Repair and Reclamation sections of the 22nd Maintenance Squadron and 931st Maintenance Squadron began

Post-9/11 GI Bill benefit transfer phase-in period ends July 31

Click on the video to hear Brig. Gen. Jay Flournoy, commander of the Air Reserve Personnel Center, talk about the Post-9/11 GI Bill transfer phase-in period ending July 31.When the program was initiated in 2009, the post 9-11 GI Bill education transfer program was phased in to enable Airmen nearing

AF Reserve MAFFS C-130s, crews back in Colorado

Aircrews, maintainers and two Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 aircraft assigned to the Air Force Reserve Command's 302nd Airlift Wing returned  here July 7 after supporting aerial fire fighting operations for five days at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Ariz. The 302nd AW MAFFS

Forest Service repositions MAFFS aircraft to Arizona

The U.S. Forest Service, through the National Interagency Fire Center here, has directed the repositioning of military Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System aircraft from Colorado Springs, Colo., to Mesa, Ariz. "The weather and progress on the ground have helped us in the Four Corners region." said

AF Reserve announces senior leader changes

Lt. Gen. James F. Jackson, chief of Air Force Reserve, announced the following mobilization assistant changes July 8. Col. John M. Hillyer, from Political-Military Affairs Strategist, J5, Joint Staff, Washington, D.C., to mobilization assistant to the Director of Operations, Plans, Requirements and

Air Force cracks down on protected information

Using a new capability, the Air Force is cracking down on the unencrypted transmission of protected information and violators could find themselves locked out and in hot water. Recently, the Air Force started using technology that specifically looks for protected critical unclassified information in

MAFFS relocating to Arizona tanker base