All in a snow day's work at ARPC

The Air Reserve Personnel Center snow removal team clear the sidewalks and parking lot here April 23 to ensure the safety of employees and visitors coming to the ARPC building. Buckley Air Force Base had delayed reporting due to ice and snow accumulation. 

Alamo Wing honorary commanders enjoy Lackland Fiesta Military Parade

Eight honorary commanders assigned to the 433rd Airlift Wing braved unseasonably cool and breezy weather to join Col. Jeffrey Pennington, 433rd AW commander, at one of Fiesta 2013's military festivities April 19.Due to the recent sequestration and scarce funding, the parade was combined with Joint

Remember the Alamo

The 433rd Airlift Wing participated in the 88th annual Pilgrimage to the Alamo--a memorial tribute to the Alamo heroes and the heritage of Texas held during Fiesta Week here April 22. A solemn wreath-bearing procession of historic, civic, patriotic, military and school groups departed from Municipal

Reserve bomber crew participates in first nuclear exercise

Arizona reservists assist homeless veterans

Members of the 944th Fighter Wing volunteered their time to help homeless veterans at the 12th annual Arizona StandDown. The Arizona StandDown, held at the Arizona State Fairgrounds Veteran's Coliseum, is a three-day event aimed at getting homeless veterans in the valley off of the streets and into

Utah reservists return to warm welcome

Master Sgt. Kirk Andrascik, 419th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, embraces his wife, Jenna, upon returning to Hill Air Force Base today following a four-month deployment to Kunsan Air Base in the Republic of Korea. Nearly 30 Air Force Reservists from the 419th Fighter Wing and nearly 120 active duty

College honors Niagara reservist for leadership

Lt. Col. Patrick Peretta, 914th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, received the Daemen College Community Leadership Award April 6, 2013 for his outstanding work with veterans at the Amherst, N.Y. college.Peretta received the award from Dr. Michael S. Brogan, Daemen Vice President for Academic

Air Superiority: Advantage over enemy skies for 60 years

A few months after the D-Day invasion in June 1944, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower surveyed the Normandy beaches with his son. "You'd never get away with this if you didn't have air supremacy," then 2nd Lt. John Eisenhower told his father. "Without air supremacy," the elder Eisenhower replied, "I

Reserve EOD Airman shows leadership, courage under fire

Bullets rained down on a joint group of U.S. Air Force Airmen and British Army forces fighting for their lives in an intense firefight along the bank of the Helmand River in southwestern Afghanistan, Sept. 21, 2012.Tech Sgt. Jarrod V. Mills, of the 315th Airlift Wing's Civil Engineering Flight at

Beale command post fosters culture of excellence

Life as a command post controller is not a glamorous one. Every day controllers descend down three flights of stairs, pass through four secure doors, each requiring key cards and authentication codes, where they will spend the majority of the next 12 hours of their shift.It's easy to be overlooked