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AFRC News

  • 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

  • Mobilized maintainers support troop buildup

    One hundred thirty-six reservists from Dover's 512th Maintenance Group have been mobilized since April 5 to support the on-going Afghanistan troop buildup. They are activated for at least six months to provide airlift support for Operation Enduring Freedom. The airlift operation supports President

  • Reservists talk to Congress about aerial spray mission

    Six Air Force reservists fresh from the fight to save the Gulf coast from one of the worst oil spills in American history briefed congressional members and staffers from the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate June 7 and 8.As part of the U.S. military's only fixed-wing aerial spray

  • Air Force Reserve medics train by treating patients in Dominican Republic

    After treating more than 7,500 patients, 39 medical specialists left this hot and humid island nation knowing they had helped people, while gaining valuable training and a cultural experience.Most of the team for MEDRETE 2010 Dominican Republic came from Air Force Reserve Command's 927th Air

  • Looking 'buff' in Berlin

    A B-52H Stratofortress from the 93rd Bomb Squadron, Barksdale Air Force Base, La., is taking part in the Berlin Air Show June 8-13, 2010. Air Force Reserve Command officials say this is the first time a B-52 from the 917th Wing has taken part in the international event.

  • Aerial spray mission ends; crews return to Youngstown

    C-130 aircraft and crews returned to Youngstown Air Reserve Station June 4 from the Gulf of Mexico.Youngstown's 910th Airlift Wing sent two specially equipped transport planes and 60 reservists to Stennis International Airport, Miss., May 1 to support cleaning up the Deepwater Horizon oil