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AFRC News

  • Dover fuels shop hauls in command award

    The 512th Airlift Wing's flying squadrons may represent the Team Dover mission in the air, but they rely on ground forces to get them there. One group of Airmen, the fuels management flight in the 512th Logistics Readiness Squadron, did their job so well that they won Air Force Reserve Command's

  • In the fight

    Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, or "MAFFS"-equipped C-130s from the Air Force Reserve's 302nd Airlift Wing performed additional fire retardant drops June 13 on the Black Forest fire in northern El Paso County, Colo. To learn more about the MAFFS mission, click here.

  • Reserve CES repairs World War II era airfield

    More than 50 Reservists from the 477th Civil Engineer Squadron completed repair work on a World War II era airfield during their annual tour May 27 - June 8. Fletcher Field in Clarksdale, Miss. was opened July 5, 1942. It was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a contract basic flying

  • AF Reserve announces mobilization assistant moves

    Lt. Gen. James F. Jackson, chief of Air Force Reserve, announced the following mobilization assistant changes June 13. Brig. Gen. James F. Mackey, from mobilization assistant to the Director of Operations, Plans and Policy, Pacific Air Forces, Joint Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to reserve deputy

  • McConnell Total Force Team prepares for Iowa bike race

    For most people, the thought of biking hundreds of miles through unfamiliar rugged territory is not only daunting, it's exhausting. For four McConnell Airmen, this is how they will spend their Saturday mornings for the next four weeks.The Airmen are participating in the Register's Annual Great

  • Air Force C-130s drop 25,000 gallons of retardant on Colorado fire

    Airmen from Colorado's 302nd Airlift Wing flew their first aerial firefighting support missions of the year June 12, dropping fire retardant on the growing Black Forest fire.302nd AW aircrews fighting the nearly 9,000-acre blaze performed 10 drops, releasing approximately 25,000 gallons of fire

  • Reserve C-130 unit requested to fight wild fires

    The 302nd Airlift Wing here received an official request for aerial firefighting support from the U.S. Forest Service June 11.Two Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130s and aircrews from unit were to be ready to drop fire retardant on fires in southern Colorado June 12."We received

  • Reserve Generation to perform at Independence Day celebration

    Reserve Generation from the Band of the U.S. Air Force Reserve along with Stillwater and Bobby Eakes will perform at the 31st annual Independence Day Celebration at McConnell Talbert Stadium July 3. This year's event is sponsored by the City of Warner Robins. Gates open at 6 p.m. for this free

  • ARPC announces Air National Guard O-4, O-5 promotion results

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials here announced results for the 2013 Air National Guard line and nonline major and lieutenant colonel promotion selection boards today. The selection boards convened at the center April 8 to determine those officers qualified to assume the next higher grade.

  • Liberty Wing leaders visit Capitol Hill

    Col. Raymond A. Kozak, 512th Airlift Wing commander, and Chief Master Sgt. William T. Wild III, 512th AW command chief, visited with congressmen in Washington, D.C., June 4 as part of the Air Force Reserve Command's Capitol Hill Visit Program."(These visits are) a great opportunity to not only