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  • Reserve commanders get a look at Lean

    Twenty-eight commanders from 10th Air Force participated in a two-day seminar on the Lean system, a managerial process designed to help identify waste, at Homestead Air Reserve Base and Miami Children's Hospital,  Aug. 10-11. The seminar topic was on point with where the U.S. military is headed; by

  • No clowning around; family care is important

    The base passenger terminal here looked different Aug. 8.The men and women in military uniform fit right in. However, the children wearing face paint, parents socializing over cake and jovial clowns blowing up balloons kind of stood out during a gathering of family and friends of deployed members of

  • 5 compete for DOD fire, emergency services awards

    Three firefighters and two organizations are representing Air Force Reserve Command in the Department of Defense Fire and Emergency Services Award competition.The command nominees are:Fire officer - Alvin L. Sims, 482nd Mission Support Group Fire Department, Homestead Air Reserve Base,

  • Plan affects Reserve fighter units in 3 states

    If approved, Air Force Reserve Command units in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah will change missions under an Air Force fighter transition plan announced in July.All of the affected units are classic associate units that provide reservists to fly and maintain Regular Air Force aircraft and equipment.

  • Optometrists focus on need in Africa

    Stepahno Shivanbe doesn't know much English, but he knows enough to say, "Thank you. Thank you very much." That's what he kept repeating as he walked out of the examination room, an olive-drab shipping container marked "Optometry." The elderly man was one of the first patients treated at the

  • McChord reservists begin Operation Deep Freeze missions

    Reservists with the 446th Airlift Wing here are now performing WINFLY, the first phase of the annual Operation Deep Freeze missions in support of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic program. During WINFLY, which is scheduled to end Aug. 29, crews are busy shuttling advance teams and cargo

  • Reservist earns medals for combat in Afghanistan

    A 512th Airlift Wing reservist received the Bronze Star and the Air Force Combat Action Medal during a ceremony Aug. 7 in the base theater.Tech. Sgt. Stephen J. Kaufman, a 512th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight team leader, earned the medals while serving with the 755th

  • South Carolina RED HORSE helps Navajo in New Mexico

    As the early morning sun begins to light up the sky in western New Mexico, more than 20 reservists from the 560th RED HORSE Squadron start their workday.The Airmen are from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., and belong to a unit called a rapid engineer deployable, heavy operational repair squadron

  • Video teleconference allows deployed dad to see newborn son for first time

    The power of technology allowed a deployed aerial porter to lay eyes on his newborn son for the first time. Senior Airman William Clark, deployed to Iraq since April, got his first look at his son Aug. 3, thanks to a video teleconference connection. It was a moment that Senior Airman William Clark