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  • Guard, Reserve conclude firefighting operations in Texas

    After performing 81 sorties and dropping 243,000 gallons of fire retardant over the wildfires that have been burning in South and West Texas, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve personnel and their MAFFS - Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System - aircraft are heading back home May 6.The National

  • Team Rescue gives life to cyberspace training

    Standing five-feet-five-inches tall, a small-framed female Airman, Tech. Sgt. Rhonda Danyus, stood in line waiting to go up against a human weapons system - six-foot-four-inches tall, 230 lb., Master Sergeant Jon Grant, in a hand-to-hand combat duel.Built like an NFL linebacker, Sergeant Grant, a

  • March service members say "thank you" to spouses

    President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first Military Spouse Appreciation Day in 1984.  To observe this year's Military Spouse Appreciation Day, March servcie men and women wrote notes of thanks to thier spouses.Wing Commander's thank you to March spouses"Nothing lasting is possible without the

  • Vice commander gets first look at ARPC

    The vice commander of Air Force Reserve Command paid his first visit to the Air Reserve Personnel Center May 3, 2011. Maj. Gen. Craig N. Gourley  visited with Center employees and received a mission briefing, discussed key topics with Col. Patricia Blassie, ARPC commander and other senior leadership

  • Reserve KC-135 crew first to refuel F-35

    The 916th Air Refueling Wing here scored another first when they refueled an F-35 Lightning II over California recently. A flight and maintenance crew from the 911th Air Refueling Squadron deployed to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., became the first wing in Air Force Reserve Command and Air Mobility

  • Air Force announces Eglin as MQ-1 squadron candidate base

    Air Force officials announced today the Eglin Air Force Base complex in Florida is the candidate for an Air Force Reserve Command MQ-1 Remote Split-Operations squadron. "The selection of this candidate is the result of a deliberate, measured and transparent process," said Kathleen Ferguson, deputy

  • Reserve tankers among 42 aircraft participating in Sea Lion 11-05

    Air Force Reserve Command KC-135 Stratotankers were among the 42 aircraft that converged in the skies above North and South Carolina to support Operation Sea Lion 11-05, a phase two operational readiness exercise centered at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C.Stratotanker crews from the 916th Air Refueling

  • Aerial firefighting units recertify, maintain mission during fire season

    For the first time in the history of the military's modular airborne firefighting system program, the 302nd Air Expeditionary Group's Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard MAFFS-equipped C-130 Hercules aircraft are operating on two fronts after wildfires broke out in Texas just before the annual

  • One command post initiative extended to aerial firefighting mission

    For the first time in recent history, an Active Duty and Air Force Reserve combined command post is providing command and control support for the 302nd Air Expeditionary Group's Modular Airborne Firefighting operations at Gowen Field in Boise, Idaho.In an effort to further solidify and gain