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AFRC News

  • 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

  • Pope C-130 crew loads Army Kiowa helo

    Soldiers with 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, Combat Aviation Brigade, load an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior armed reconnaissance helicopter into a Reserve C-130H medium transport aircraft here June 2. The unit is the air cavalry reconnaissance squadron for the Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne

  • Maintenance innovation has potential to save time, money

    Rocks kicked up when landing a C-130 on unimproved runways can damage the fuselage of the aircraft. To combat this problem, maintainers in the 302nd Maintenance Group here began putting tape on the plane's belly. In January, they took another step by applying protective tape to the forward landing

  • Reserve C-130s battle North Dakota mosquitos

    Air Force Reserve Command C-130s completed aerial spray missions here and over Williston, N.D., May 28 - June 7.Roaring overhead at more than 200 mph, 100 feet above watery areas, specially equipped C-130s from the 910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, delivered mosquito-killing

  • Boehning named AF Reserve Process Manager of Year

    Lt. Col. Stephanie Boehning, 932nd Airlift Wing, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., has been named the Air Force Reserve Command Process Manager of the Year for 2012. Boehning is responsible for performance management at the 932nd AW using AFSO21 (Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century) and