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AFRC News

  • Tanker crew chiefs keep mission on track

    The windshield was simply refusing to cooperate.As the KC-135 Stratotanker approached San Antonio the aircraft commander's windshield began to fog. The window heater was on as evidenced by the co-pilot's clear view of the city below.While the aircrew ran checklists and checked the circuit breakers,

  • Hagel announces fewer furlough days for DOD employees

    After weeks of review, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has concluded budget cuts will require most of the department's civilian employees to be furloughed beginning in July, but that because of other efforts to deal with the shortfall, only half of the 22 days originally envisioned as temporary

  • May 31 is deadline to sign up for TRICARE automatic payments

    Beneficiaries enrolled in TRICARE Reserve Select or TRICARE Retired Reserve who pay monthly premiums by check must switch to an electronic form of payment by May 31 to avoid losing coverage. TRICARE will only accept monthly premium payments using recurring automatic payments by credit or debit card,

  • Reserve dentist focuses military career on global health challenges

    Dr. Vincent Chiappone, a dentist with the 940th Wing here has a passion for volunteering that has taken the major far in his Reserve career - all the way around the world actually.Over the past three years, Chiappone has travelled with military medical teams to Northern Alaska, the Congo, Belize,

  • Airmen honored at Field of Honor ceremony

    Two of the 10 service members recognized for their service during the 7th annual Field of Honor ceremony at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum, Fayetteville, N.C., May 11 were Pope Field Airmen. Tech. Sgt. George E. Earhart from the 21st Special Tactics Squadron, accompanied by his wife

  • Tinker reservists return from Southwest Asia

    More than 20 reservists from the 507th Air Refueling Wing returned home to Tinker Air Force Base May 13th, after a five-month deployment to Southwest Asia in support of on-going air refueling operations in U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.The 507th Air Refueling Wing is the largest Air

  • Homestead Airmen conduct live ordnance loading area operations

    Homestead Air Reserve Base recently conducted a series of live ordnance loading area operations.More commonly known as LOLA, the operations consist of loading live ordnance on F-16s in an authorized area on the flightline away from people and buildings. The munitions are loaded in an isolated

  • Florida Airmen battle surf-sand menace to CSAR aircraft

    Salt eats metal and sand pollutes machinery. Combat search and rescue aircraft assigned to the 920th Rescue Wing here are magnets for both. The Atlantic Ocean breaks surf a few hundred feet to the east of the Patrick AFB aircraft parking ramp and the salt meets fresh-water mix that is the Banana

  • Kansas reservists support Texas flight medicine

    The 18th Air Refueling Squadron and the 433rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron teamed up to conduct aeromedical evacuation training, May 11-12.The training allowed 433rd AES members to set up litter systems in conjunction with the aircraft's AE configuration, practice caring for patients in-flight