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AFRC News

  • Command responds to Super Bowl ad allegation

    The Air Force Reserve Command released a statement Tuesday, following allegations from a recording artist claiming their song was used illegally in a Super Bowl Sunday regional TV advertisement. Recording artists, The White Stripes, posted a statement on their official website claiming the Air Force

  • 2 California units nominated for AFA aerospace awards

    Air Force Reserve Command announced its nominations for the following Air Force Association Aerospace Awards on Jan. 25:Citation of honor - 50th Intelligence Squadron, Beale AFB, Calif.Gill Robb Wilson Award - 4th Combat Camera Squadron, March Air Reserve Base, Calif. (Air Force Reserve Command News

  • Command announces environmental awards

    Air Force Reserve Command announced the following AFRC 2009 General Thomas D. White Environmental Award recipients Jan. 20:Reserve component quality award - 482nd Mission Support Group Civil Engineer Environmental Flight, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla.Pollution prevention award for team excellence

  • Air Force Reserve family readiness award

    The 482nd Fighter Wing at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., is the Air Force Reserve's recipient of the 2009 Department of Defense Family Readiness Award. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs) Dennis M. McCarthy will present the award to seven reserve components Feb. 12 in a Pentagon

  • March C-17 crew completes mission to Haiti

    A C-17 crew from here returned home Feb. 1 after flying a 5-day humanitarian mission to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The nine-member crew from the 729th Airlift Squadron took 171,400 pounds of cargo and 25 Army and Air Force service members into Haiti and airlifted 263 evacuees and aid workers out in a

  • C-5M Super Galaxy officially sets 41 world records

    A Dover C-5M Super Galaxy went into the world record books Jan. 19 when the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale certified 41 records set during a Sept. 13, 2009, flight.The U.S. National Aeronautic Association approved the U.S. records Oct. 30 before submitting them to the FAI, a Swiss-based

  • Team Dover flies first C-5M to Iraq

    As the Dover aircraft landed at the runway in Iraq, delivering over 85,000 pounds of equipment for troops downrange, it may have seemed like any other mission. This, however, was the first C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft to fly into Iraq.Dover's three C-5M aircraft have completed the operational testing

  • Air Reserve Component aircrew, maintainers tackle Haiti relief effort

    Aircrew and maintenance Airmen representing the Air Reserve Component are tackling the Haitian relief effort as part of their Coronet Oak rotational deployment.Coronet Oak is the U.S. Southern Command's airlift mission that provides humanitarian aid to the Central and South American theater of

  • Colorado-based AF Reservists continue relief aid flights into Haiti

    The Air Force Reserve's 302nd Airlift Wing delivered another bundle of supplies Jan. 30 into the Caribbean nation of Haiti as relief supply runs into the country continue.The Colorado-based aircrew from the 302nd AW and their C-130 Hercules delivered dozens of cases of bottled water, printing