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AFRC News

  • Minneapolis unit completes home station ORE

     The 934th Airlift Wing completed its first home station Operational Readiness Exercise last week under new guidance ushering in a new era in Air Force inspections. Feb. 13, the Secretary of the Air Force Inspector General's office released a new Air Force Guidance Memorandum to AFI 90-201, The Air

  • Rescue Airmen attend remembrance ceremony for Khobar Towers attack

    Rescue Wing members honored five Rescue Airmen and 14 other Airmen killed in the Khobar Towers terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia 17 years ago."We lost 5 members of our "Rescue Family" on June 25, 1996. Our thoughts and prayers remain with their families, friends and comrades--they are not

  • Pararescuemen continue to scour mountain for missing man

    Air Force Reserve pararescueman from the 304th Rescue Squadron, Portland, Ore., are continuing to scour Oregon's highest mountain for a 59-year-old dentist from Salem who went missing Saturday. Kinley Adams is believed to be an experienced hiker, and the Clackamas County Sheriff's office says

  • Barksdale bids farewell to A-10s

    The last three A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft assigned to the 917th Fighter Group left Barksdale June 24. The final take-off marked the end of an era at the base, as Airmen and community members waved their final goodbyes to the A-10s in a farewell ceremony on the flightline. "While today is

  • Air Force aerial firefighting continues against Rocky Mountain fires

    Air Force aerial firefighting aircraft continued dropping thousands of gallons of fire retardant June 24 in an effort to contain growing Rocky Mountain wildland fires.Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard C-130 aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System performed two

  • Charleston reservist is top Air War College distance learning graduate

    Two years of correspondence courses and professional military education seminars has earned a Joint Base Charleston Reservist the Air War College Academic Excellence Award.Lt. Col. Cade C. Gibson, 315th Maintenance Squadron commander, was honored for attaining the highest academic average among

  • $24M hydrant fueling system project announced at Westover

    Some 40 civic, business, and military leaders gathered at a ceremony June 24 announcing a $24.4 million contract to fund a new fuel hydrant system on base. The ceremony took place on the C-5 aircraft ramp at Westover, in the shadow of a C-5 Galaxy, the largest aircraft in the U.S. military. Opening

  • Portland pararescuemen searching for missing hiker on Mount Hood

    The 304th Rescue Squadron is  supporting an ongoing search-and-rescue mission for a climber who went missing on Mount Hood Saturday. Four Pararescuemen, also known as PJs, and 1 Combat Rescue Officer were activated by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center to participate alongside volunteer

  • Reservists deliver Dover's 11th C-5M

    History was recorded and heritage was remembered when the base received its 11th C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft June 21.Maj. Gen. Craig N. Gourley, Air Force Reserve Command vice commander, piloted the newly modernized aircraft from Marietta, Ga. He was accompanied by a team of 709th Airlift Squadron