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AFRC News

  • Youngstown hosts German military reserve officers

    Two German air force reserve officers visited here in June to exchange ideas and experiences with their U.S. Air Force Reserve counterparts in the 910th Airlift Wing. Lt. Col. Stefan Bernreider and Lt. Col. Patrick Hofmann toured Youngstown Air Reserve Station June 12-26 as part of the Department of

  • Tinker reservists to participate in Navy fleet exercise

    Four 507th Air Refueling Wing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft and more than 180 Air Force reservists will join forces with the U.S. Navy during July to support a U.S. Pacific Fleet exercise.The exercise, called RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific), is a series of multinational maritime exercises scheduled to

  • Communications specialists get 'juiced' during training exercise

    Approximately 20 Reserve Airmen of the 42nd Combat Communications Squadron began packing up their expeditionary field equipment here Friday as an 18-day, world-wide communications training exercise concluded.The purpose of the Joint Users Interoperability Communications Exercise, known as JUICE, is

  • ARPC hosts interservice Reserve conference

    Nearly 100 officials from the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard gathered at the Doubletree Hotel in Denver for the Individual Ready Reserve Interservice Conference June 22 and 23.ARPC hosted the annual event which allows representatives from all the services to discuss current

  • Participants gather at Reserve Personnel Center for annual muster

    More than 170 men and women gathered at the Air Reserve Personnel Center here as part of the Individual Ready Reserve muster program June 18.The program is mandated by law and requires the Air Force to connect with Airmen who have served and still have a military service obligation but are no longer

  • IMA program to grow by 400 by September

    With 400 new funded billets and recent attrition rates in Fiscal Year 2010, the Air Force Reserve Individual Mobilization Augmentee Program is looking to hire 1,600 people by September. "We're hiring and that is terrific news on several fronts," said Col. Nancy Zbyszinski, commander, Readiness

  • Former wing commander immortalized in Italian skies

    Although he is now retired, former 917th Wing Commander Brig. Gen. Jack Ihle's name can still be seen on an A-10 Thunderbolt flying in the skies over Europe. The names of General Ihle, Master Sgt. Erick Munson and Tech. Sgt. Alex Wilkins adorn the fuselage of a remote-controlled aircraft constructed

  • Reflections on the water: Outward Bound veteran expeditions

    Some cultures believe rivers have healing powers; that people can pour out their grief into the river and leave their sorrows behind.In a land where horses run free and osprey rule the sky, there's a river that runs south to north surrounded by a breathtaking landscape full of basalt rock

  • Training at Volk Field prepares for inspection

    The flight line at the Volk Field Air National Guard Training Center in western Wisconsin was alive with activity June 3 as the first of many aircraft arrived to begin a five-day operational readiness training practice.The practice was the fourth in a series of training events to prepare Air Force