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  • Oklahoma reservists help Japanese relief efforts

    Air Force reservists from the 507th Air Refueling Wing's 72nd Aerial Port Squadron assisted Operation Tomodachi, the earthquake and tsunami relief efforts underway in Japan.The reservists were beginning the second week of their two-week annual tour at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, when news arrived of the

  • Grissom breaks ground on new ATC tower

    Elected officials, civic leaders, contractors, and 434th Air Refueling Wing and Air Force Reserve Command Airmen all descended on Grissom March 15 for a groundbreaking ceremony, which marked the beginning of construction for a new air traffic control tower here.The new ATC tower, with a programmed

  • Brothers reflect on deployment together

    Airmen leave several things behind when they deploy: their home, belongings and, most importantly their friends and family. The sting of saying farewell can be extremely difficult, but for two 419th Fighter Wing Airmen, it was softened because the person next to them on the plane was their

  • Spouses take flight

    Historically, when the Air Force Reserve's 920th Rescue Wing here launches its HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters and HC-130P/N King refueling planes, the people on board are wearing an Air Force uniform. It was not the case here March 6th when the spouses of those wearing the uniform got a lift on 920th

  • Heart Link provides spouses with critical information

    When a man or woman signs up to join the military, they take an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Sometimes, that oath gets called into play when an Airmen deploys. Then, their spouse who didn't sign up for a military commitment, suddenly is

  • General returns from SWA to command 4th Air Force

    Brig. Gen. Mark A. Kyle assumed command of 4th Air Force from Maj. Gen. Eric W. Crabtree at a change-of-command ceremony in the C-17 hangar here March 12.Before becoming commander of 4th Air Force, General Kyle served as director of mobility forces for U.S. Air Forces Central in Southwest

  • 445th AW reservist helps Iraqi MoD produce first media workshop

    The first Advanced Broadcasting and Television Production Workshop, composed of 22 students, was conducted from Feb. 20 to March 2 at the MoD's Ministerial Developmental and Training Center here. As the Government of Iraq continues to increase self-sustaining capabilities, the Iraqi Ministry of

  • Pittsburgh reservists step in to replace Lakenheath deployers

    Acting on a short-notice request for volunteers, 13 members of the 911th Security Forces Squadron here answered the call to fill a deployment void created by the deadly March 2 shooting attack at Frankfurt International Airport, Germany.The appeal went out shortly after a lone gunman boarded a bus

  • Oklahoma Air Force reservists return from deployment

    Members of the 507th Civil Engineer Squadron returned to Oklahoma yesterday after serving the previous six months at various locations in the mid east supporting  Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn.The civil engineers are members of the Air Force Reserve Command's 507th Air Refueling Wing,

  • Reserve pilot gets mission equipped after defeating cancer

    Ten years after airdropping emergency medical supplies at the South Pole for a physician who was diagnosed with cancer, the 97th Airlift Squadron scrambled to help one of its own deal with cancer.While deployed in support of Operation Deep Freeze in February 2009, Lt. Col. Joe Nauman, an assistant