May 24, 2012 Pope office named best IG team An inspector general team on a military installation is not always viewed as good news.That's not the case for the 440th Airlift Wing at Pope Field, N.C. Its IG office is the recipient of the 2011 General John P. Flynn IG Award. The Secretary of the Air Force IG named the office the best
May 24, 2012 Home, this is MPAAT, we're rolling out It's really hard to believe my mobile public affairs advisory team and I are at the end of our deployment here to Camp Leatherneck in Southern Afghanistan. It has been an exciting, fast paced and unique deployment for all of us. Now that it is almost over, it seems like just yesterday we landed here
May 23, 2012 NCO leadeship course goes joint The 301st Fighter Wing Education and Training office recently added some purple to its Noncommissioned Officer Leadership Development Course.Participants are typically all Air Force NCOs, but this time, Army, Navy, and Marine Corps members were invited to attend. It is the first time for the class
May 23, 2012 Command names Grover Loening Trophy recipient The 732nd Airlift Squadron at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., is the recipient of the Grover Loening Trophy for calendar year 2011.Air Force Reserve Command announced its award selection May 18. The award recognizes the command's best flying unit, exclusive of combat rescue and special
May 22, 2012 442nd Fighter Wing gears up for active-duty association The 442nd Fighter Wing is scheduled to begin integrating more than 100 active-duty Airmen by October.The total-force integration of active-duty Airmen into Reserve units is part of an initiative to improve efficiency and combat capability by leveraging reserve experience and continuity. The 442nd is
May 22, 2012 Traffic safety fair brings awareness to young drivers It's prom season again. Some area high school students are busy preparing for that big night. Meanwhile federal, state, local agencies, volunteer firefighters as well as some Western New York area businesses are preparing these students for the most important event of prom season: Staying live.This
May 22, 2012 New Reserve enlistee training ensures BMT success The 477th Fighter Group welcomed seven new Reserve enlistees during the May Unit Training Assembly weekend. These Airmen make up the Development and Training Flight, a new Air Force Reserve initiative which prepares enlistees for Basic Military Training by educating them on Air Force customs and
May 21, 2012 Arizona Reservists make Capital house call Air Force Reserve Command's Airman of the Year, Senior Airman Merranda Moreno, and several other members of the 944th Fighter Wing were part of a congressional delegation visit to Washington D.C. May 8-9. The group spent two days on Capital Hill visiting state representatives and staff from seven
May 21, 2012 Reservists must complete training to ride motorcycles Reservists planning to ride motorcycles while on orders, during annual training or while completing unit training assemblies should plan to complete an approved motorcycle training course."Any time a motorcycle mishap occurs while you are in status, whether you are driving to or from base for UTAs,
May 20, 2012 Active duty, Reserve tests combat readiness in exercise Polar Force 12-4 The 3rd Wing launched more than a dozen aircraft Saturday morning as part of exercise Polar Force 12-4, an operational readiness exercise designed to test the unit's ability to deploy.The exercise is broken up into two parts; Phases 1 and 2. Phase 1 started Wednesday and ended Saturday.During an