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AFRC News

  • Reserve, Guard leaders discuss budgets, DOD cuts on Capitol Hill

    The top leaders from Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force Reserve and National Guard programs provided statements and answered questions at a Senate hearing regarding their fiscal 2013 manning and budget proposals on May 23.Cutting budgets, making decisions and retaining the most capability were the hot

  • Jolly Green protects, serves for milestone Dragon launch

    A Dragon breathed fire at 3:44 a.m. EDT May 22 with the launch of the first-ever commercial rocket mission to the International Space Station.Before the Space Exploration Technology's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off, Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing based at nearby Patrick Air Force Base flew two

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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