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AFRC News

  • Photographer wins award, others place in contest

    A photographer from Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass., won an award, and people from four other bases placed in the Air Force Media Contest.According to an announcement April 6, Staff Sgt. Hueming Mui from Westover's 439th Airlift Wing took first place in the Portrait/Personality Photograph

  • Dover reservists mobilized to support Afghanistan troop build-up

    Approximately 300 Air Force Reserve flight crew members, maintenance technicians, aerial porters and support personnel were called to active duty April 5 to support the Afghanistan troop build-up this spring. The 512th Airlift Wing reservists will be activated for about six months to provide airlift

  • Reservists participate in tennis tournament

    During a sunny South Florida day, Air Force reservists from Homestead Air Reserve Base participated in pre-match ceremonies prior to the women's final of the Sony Ericsson Open Tennis Tournament, April 3.Before a capacity crowd of 14,000 and a national television audience in the millions, Brig. Gen.

  • Reservist wins 4th military powerlifting title

    A member of Air Force Reserve Command's Recruiting Service here earned three gold medals at the 2010 USA Military National Powerlifting/Bench Press Championships on March 20 at Brooks City Base near San Antonio.Master Sgt. Tina Robinson, Reserve Recruiting first sergeant, won the bench press in the

  • Reserve aerial porters continue to support Haiti relief

    Air Force Reservists from the 514th Air Mobility Wing are providing aerial port expertice and translator skills in the ongoing Haitian earthquake releif effort. Members of the 35th and 88th Aerial Port Squadrons arrived in Haiti in mid-February. Living on meals-ready-to-eat and residing in tents,

  • Niagara Falls dining facility wins Hennessy Award

    For the first time in nine years, the 914th Services Squadron is heading to the front of the line to receive Air Force Reserve Command's John L. Hennessy Award.The last time the dining facility at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, N.Y., won the command award was in 2001.In addition to food quality,

  • Answering the call at home and abroad

    For some military members, the call to duty is only surpassed by the call to help others. For Air Force Reservist and 920th Rescue Wing member Tech. Sgt. Corey Hellmann, it's his motivation and mission in life.When he isn't providing respiratory therapy at his civilian job, a level-one trauma center

  • 'Over There" helps children understand deployments

    Jessica Whelchel, Military OneSource consultant, holds a copy of "Over There," a children's board book about a father's deployment, as she talks with Kristen Pleasant, wife of Senior Airman Kevin Pleasant, 452nd Maintenance Squadron, about Military OneSource resources for kids during the Yellow

  • Reservists leave Iraqi children with refurbished desks

    Sitting at a well-crafted desk may not seem like a big deal to children in the United States or other more affluent parts of the world, but to the children of Kirkuk's school provinces, it is. As one of their last efforts to leave a place better than they found it, Reservists from the 446th Civil

  • Memories of 6-month Afghanistan tour linger for Reserve nurse

    Maj. Deborah "Lucy" Lehker's job isn't an easy one to leave behind. For the past six months she has been a member of a three-person team of medical professionals caring for critically wounded service members during air transport in Afghanistan. When she arrived at March Air Reserve Base on March 10