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  • Reservists tackle mud, snow, water, electricity for Wounded Warrior Project

    The first rule of Tough Mudder is it's not a race, but a challenge. At the starting line, competitors recite a pledge, vowing to uphold the tenets of the Tough Mudder before embarking on a challenge that takes them over 4,000 feet of elevation change, through icy water, putrid-smelling mud, up

  • Balancing Reserve force discussed at Commander and Spouse Forum

    Air Force Reserve wing commanders and their spouses attended the annual Air Force Reserve Commander and Spouse forum here July 6-8 to gain increased awareness of the needs of Citizen Airmen and their families.Attendees engaged with Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., chief of Air Force Reserve and

  • Employers get a glimpse of Youngstown mission

    The engines of a C-130 Hercules roaring to life, fire arms blazing as terrorists attack and take hostages, and flames shooting into the blue sky and engulfing the hulk of a Hercules during a mock training scenario. These were just a few of the sights and sounds that approximately 60 civilian

  • Reserve C-130s continue aerial firefighting efforts in Southwest

    Air Force Reserve personnel and two Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System equipped C-130s continue to assist the U.S. Forest Service in fighting wildfires in New Mexico and Arizona.Since being activated by the National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho on June 15, the 302nd Air Expeditionary Group

  • On target

    94th Security Forces Combat Arms Training and Maintenance instructors conduct M-4 carbine training during the July 9 unit training assembly. Students -- other members ofthe 94th Security Forces Squadron -- spent several hours in the classroom and then went to the range to qualify. 

  • Pope reservists to join 9/11 Ruck March to Remember

    The 440th Airlift Wing Security Forces Squadron is joining forces with 14 other Air Force Security Forces Squadrons and participating in the 9/11 Ruck March to Remember. In relay fashion, southern and eastern seaboard state Air Force Squadrons will march from Lackland AFB near San Antonio, Texas to

  • PLASTIC PATIENTS, REAL READINESS

    Temperatures exceeded 100 degrees outside daily as the largest wildfire in Arizona's history blazed across the state last month.But members of the 507th Medical Squadron faced their own heated challenge while attending a unique trauma training course in Scottsdale.During their June 12 to 25 annual

  • Reservists deliver aid to Haiti over holiday weekend

    While most Charlestonians were at home with family over the Fourth of July holiday weekend enjoying the beaches, hot dogs and fireworks, members of the 315th Airlift Wing here departed on a C-17 Globemaster III on a humanitarian aid mission to Haiti July 1. The aircraft delivered 20 pallets of