Twilight zone

Individual Reservists get oriented

Twenty reservists and active-duty partners attended a two-day course designed to welcome them into the Individual Reserve program at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, D.C., June 21-22. At the IR Newcomers Orientation Course, attendees received briefings on readiness, deployments, participation, pay and

LRS deploys to England for training

Memorial service honors fallen North Carolina MAFFS Airmen

About 1,500 people turned out in one of the Air National Guard hangars at Charlotte Douglas International Airport Wednesday morning, including Guardsmen, families of the four dead Airmen and friends. A five-person U.S. Forest Service honor guard, with members drawn from as far away as California,

Barksdale program prepares recruits for rigors of basic training

During the July Unit Training Assembly, a lunch time crowd from the 307th Bomb Wing fills one room of the dining facility here, talking, eating and enjoying the camaraderie with their fellow Airmen. For them, lunch time is a break, a time to relax, escape the heat of the day and get away from the

Aircraft maintainers keep MAFFS C-130s flying

It's a waiting game. Under the hot, dry 90-plus degree weather in the afternoon of July 5, Tech. Sgt. Dave Stevens, 302nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, was sitting underneath a tent just off the side of the flightline staring at two C-130 Hercules aircraft. These C-130s are special; they

Fight dream pushes Airman to Olympic trials

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," a line made famous by boxing legend Muhammad Ali, means different things to Senior Airman Dustin Southichack, a 433rd Civil Engineer Squadron pest management specialist. When Southichack is not busting bugs, he throws punches in the ring as the only

Operations group Reservists ace evaluation

The fact that 279 aircrew Reservists averaged 98.9 percent on a closed book test, with zero failures, is just one factor in the 446th Airlift Wing earning accolades from its recent Aircrew Standard Evaluation Visit June 18-July 2. The 62nd Airlift Wing also excelled in the ASEV.Even before the

MAFFS operations resume

C-130 Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System operations resumed here July 3. The California Air National Guard's 146th Airlift Wing joined the Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing and the Air Force Reserve Command's 302nd Airlift Wing, stationed at Peterson Air Force Base, in supporting

USNORTHCOM resumes wildfire suppression missions

Six Department of Defense C-130 aircraft equipped with U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems and under the command and control of U.S. Northern Command are assisting in the efforts to control fires in the Rocky Mountain region and western United States at the request of the