Team provides medical care in Dominican Republic

A team of 39 medical specialists from the Air Force Reserve arrived here May 24 as part of MEDRETE 2010 Dominican Republic. During their two weeks of training on the island, the Air Force reservists will provide free medical care to the local population at four locations in the Puerto Plata region.

Whiteman fighter pilot sets sights on new heights

Within a few years, she became spacey - literally - planning to work some day for NASA as an astronaut, something she knew she could only do if she joined the Air Force and became a fighter pilot.Today, nearly 20 years later as a Regular Air Force pilot in the 303rd Fighter Squadron, part of Air

Survival training gets boost from Alabama state troopers

As a fully qualified survival, escape, resistance and evasion specialist, Senior Airman Chad Braunschweig has one goal - to make SERE training for the 908th Airlift Wing as realistic as possible.The opportunity for realistic training came one Sunday in May on the Alabama River in Millbrook, where

Youngstown radio operator provides communication lifeline to oil spill response

Air Force Reserve Command committed to cutting energy costs

As the energy program manager for Air Force Reserve Command, Roy Locke knows that the key to cutting energy consumption is to chip away at it a little at a time.The Air Force Reserve began curbing energy usage in the early 1970s when it first implemented a formal energy conservation program."We try

Maintainers prep planes for final resting place

Seven aircraft maintainers acted as "morticians" when they prepared four historic MC-130E Combat Talons for decommissioning and the flight to their final resting place.Airmen from the 919th Special Operations Wing spent three weeks at Gowen Field, Idaho, to give the birds "last rites" and ensure

March family to fight son's blindness with a bike ride across the United States

When 18-year-old James "Bubba" Frigo Jr. looks at the night sky, he can no longer see the stars. In 2008, a doctor specializing in inherited eye disorders diagnosed Bubba with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disorder in which photoreceptor cells in the retina die, leading to a gradual decline

Extreme athletes "Grab Some Air" for recruiting

It's almost 10 a.m. at the joint service open house here. Crowds already start to gather around a skate ramp that stands over 10 feet tall. A group of skateboarders and BMX riders warm up on the ramp, giving the crowd a taste of what's to come.After a few words from the announcer, the ramp suddenly

CCAF recognizes 350,000th degree recipient

An Air Force reservist earned the distinction as the 350,000 graduate of the Community College of the Air Force on May 5. Tech. Sgt. Brannen Parrish received an associate in applied science public affairs degree during the 2010 Senior Enlisted Leader Summit at the Senior NCO Academy, Gunter Annex.

Air Force reservists to provide C-130 training

Air Force Reserve Command will provide manpower and aircraft to establish a C-130H2 Formal Training Unit at Little Rock AFB, Ark., starting this fall.The Air Force Reserve organization will eventually replace Air Education and Training Command's 62nd Airlift Squadron by early 2014. Plans call for