An official website of the United States government
A .mil website belongs to an official U.S. Department of Defense organization in the United States.
A lock (lock ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .mil website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

  • Grissom firefighters tops in command

    Grissom Fire Department's motto of "always ready, always capable" has helped them receive the Air Force Reserve Command Medium Fire Department of the Year award.A couple of the departments highlights for 2010 include successfully providing airway and rescue breathing to a 6-year-old girl who was

  • JROTC cadets learn military, life skills during camp at March

    Fifty teenagers from Rancho Verde High School in Moreno Valley and Arlington High School in Riverside arrived at March last Monday for their two-week Air Force JROTC Summer Leadership School. The cadets' time at March educated them about the Air Force, but more importantly, helped in JROTC's mission

  • Total force effort earns 19 SOPS command team excellence award

    Members of the 19th Space Operations Squadron earned the 2010 Air Force Reserve Command Team Excellence Award last month.The award recognizes outstanding team performance and shares best practices within the Air Force. It promotes an efficient approach for enhancing mission capability, improving

  • Experts teach March Airmen to run injury-free

    Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, medical consultant for the Air Force Marathon, and Ian Adamson, ultra-athlete and three-time record holder, shared information on proper techniques and methods for injury-free running during two, three-hour running clinics here June 12.  Dr. Cucuzzella, an associate professor of

  • 'Eagle' rescues owl from hawk

    The wing commander here became an unlikely rescuer when he saved a fledgling owl from the clutches of an attacking hawk on June 1.Col. Karl McGregor, commander of the 452nd Air Mobility Wing, happened upon the 'fowl' incident on his morning drive to work. "The action was in the middle of the road in

  • Grissom recruiter rewarded for helping others

    One Grissom recruiter traveled to Haiti hoping to make a difference in the lives of people that were affected by a 2010 earthquake; instead it was the Haitian people that made a difference in his life.In 2010 an earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude occurred in Haiti, and more than a year later the

  • Reserve maintenance crew keeps engines running at NATO exercise

    With late spring temperatures just topping five degrees Celsius on the flightline here, it is not the climate 459th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Airmen are accustomed to working in this time of year back home.But gusty winds, cold conditions and long hours did not faze the Air Force Reserve

  • Reserve Airmen fuel up NATO forces in Iceland exercise

    Air Force Reserve Airmen and a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 459th Air Refueling Wing, Joint Base Andrews, Md., took part in Northern Viking 11, a biennial NATO air-space and maritime protection exercise here June 3-10, 2011.This year approximately 450 NATO military members from the U.S., Norway,