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AFRC News

  • Air Force leaders discuss leveraging Reserve strengths

    The Air Force Reserve faces many challenges, such as providing the training that Citizen Airmen need to support warfighting capabilities and maintaining full-time support to joint partners with a part-time force. With tightening budgets, leaders have had to brainstorm innovative ways to meet the

  • McChord Reserve civil engineers get cool training in hot sun

    With temperatures hovering in the 90s and high humidity, the heat is on for some 30 Reservists from the 446th Civil Engineer Squadron from McChord Field, Wash., who arrived May 21 for a week-long training exercise here. Known as Silver Flag, the exercise provides field training and classroom

  • Hill aerial porters back from Balad

    Staff Sgt. Stacy Souza, 67th Aerial Port Squadron, pulls her son in for a hug after a five-month deployment to Joint Base Balad, Iraq. Rick Souza, Sergeant Souza's husband, played "Mr. Mom" to his three children while his wife was away, and left for basic military training four days after she

  • 916th Airmen elevate outlook for health and fitness

    You've been there before, chained to your desk trying to meet multiple deadlines, staring at the computer screen, even eating lunch in place.The day seems endless.You've been sitting at your desk so long; it feels as if your posterior has woven itself into the very fabric of the chair.As the

  • Westover hosts Springfield Police Academy graduation

    As newly sworn-in police officers of three neighboring cities, the graduating cadets stood before family, friends and fellow officers in the Base Hangar, May 19, and learned the subtle difference between law enforcement officers and police officers.Before they were sworn in, civic leaders admonished

  • Arctic Reservists begin work on Boy Scout Jamboree site

    Arctic Reservists assigned to the 477th Civil Engineer Squadron recently arrived in Beckley, W. Va. to begin work on a 10,600 acre National Scout Jamboree site as a part of Joint Task Force Summit. Over the next two weeks, 22 Reserve civil engineers will clear trees and install silt fences on the

  • Reservists Get Down and Dirty

    Cold. Wet. Dirty. Face first in the mud is the perfect way to spend a rainy Pacific Northwest morning.Eight Reservists from the 446th Airlift Wing got down and dirty Saturday in the 6th Annual 5K Mud Run sponsored the by Joint Base Lewis-McChord Morale Welfare and Recreation Center at Lewis Main."I

  • High-tech science combats environmental hazards

    Those who have heard of bioenvironmental engineers may know it is a unique job - one that goes far beyond fit-testing gas masks. A typical day can include water and air sampling, noise and radiation analysis, ventilation air flow measurements, respiratory protection, and yes - gas mask fit-tests.For

  • Former POW offers insight to pre-, post-deployment Reservists, families

    Being a prisoner of war is unimaginable for many servicemembers, but for retired Air Force Col. Lee Ellis, this harsh reality was also a leaning experience he now shares with others. Colonel Ellis spoke about his Air Force career, focusing mainly on his Vietnam deployment, to approximately 285

  • Yellow Ribbon provides service members, families tools for success

    Service members and their families received tools necessary for successful deployments during the western regional Yellow Ribbon event held at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel in Tempe, Ariz., May 14-15.The event was referred to as a purple event, as it included Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard