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  • ARPC releases 2009 Guard, Reserve Personnel fact sheets

    The Air Reserve Personnel Center released the 2009 Guard and Reserve Personnel Fact Sheets today. This publication offers valuable information on a variety of subjects including pay charts, promotion and retirement information, entitlement benefits and assignment information. The publication is

  • Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters fly Alaska winter storms

    Hurricane Hunter aircraft deployed to Anchorage, Alaska, Jan. 17 for a month-long mission in support of the 2009 Winter Storm Reconnaissance program. In addition to two WC-130J aircraft, the 403rd Wing put together a team of Air Force Reservists including aircrews, operations, maintenance, aerial

  • Instinct leads reservist to thwart escape

    "He just looked suspicious," remarked Staff Sgt. Otis T. Luke, referring to the Iraqi detainee he prevented from escaping from a medical facility. Sergeant Luke was awarded the Air Force Achievement Medal in late-December for thwarting a detainee's escape attempt while deployed to Iraq last

  • Command of 4th Air Force changes hands

    Hundreds of people here watched Maj. Gen. Robert E. Duignan turn over command of 4th Air Force to Brig. Gen. Eric W. Crabtree Jan. 25. Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., chief of Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve Command, presided over the ceremony. After relinquishing command,

  • Air Force Reserve aircrew delivers humanitarian supplies to Nicaragua

    A C-17 aircrew from Dover's 326th Airlift Squadron airlifted 18,000 pounds of humanitarian cargo to Nicaragua Jan. 17-19. Onboard were desks, chairs, file cabinets and books for the new library at Ave Maria University, Latin American Campus, in San Marcos, Carazo. The school is a one-hour drive from

  • Air Force reservists participate in Inaugural parade

    Ninety members of the 459th Air Refueling Wing from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., braved bone-chilling winds Jan. 20 to form an all-volunteer marching troop in the presidential inaugural parade. Weather and intense security notwithstanding, hundreds of wing hopefuls offered their time and

  • March reservists 'pulling' duty in Panama

    Thirty-five members of the 452nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron deployed to Chitre, Panama, Jan. 10, to conduct a humanitarian mission as part of its medical readiness training exercise. The squadron deployed doctors, dentists, optometrists and pharmacists, according to Senior Master Sgt. Theresa

  • Reservist sheds 115 pounds to work on F-22s in Alaska

    Eleven months ago, Derrick Bell took the first step in a journey that would change his life in more ways than one. The 38-year-old husband and father of two shed more than 115 pounds to meet the Air Force Reserve physical standards of enlistment, astounding his recruiter, family and friends. Airman

  • Reservists get second Raptor unit ready to fly

    Air Force Reserve Command moved closer to launching its second F-22A associate group Jan. 7 when Col. Donald "Louie" Lindberg flew his first Raptor sortie here. Colonel Lindberg commands Detachment 1, 301st Fighter Wing at Holloman. Plans call for the detachment to stand up as the 44th Fighter Group

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