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AFRC News

  • Recruits must pass P.A.S.T. to have future in rescue

    "Don't quit." That's the motto here for the pre-indoctrination course for the Air Force Reserve pararescuemen and combat rescue officers. It's an imperative that will stick with these men throughout their two-year training program, known as the "Pipeline."Patrick's 920th Rescue Wing administers the

  • Tinker reservists deploy to Guam, Southwest Asia

    More than 100 Air Force reservists from the 507th Air Refueling Wing deployed in late December to support Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.The Air Force Reserve Command unit flies and maintains the KC-135R Stratotanker and performs daily air refueling missions in support of national

  • 445th AW reservists fly snow removal equipment to Afghanistan

    The 445th Airlift Wing participated with the Air Force Security Assistance Center and the 88th Air Base Wing Dec. 23 to transport two snow removal vehicles and associated snow removal equipment to Kabul, Afghanistan. The plows will be used to clear runways at Kabul International Airport for the

  • President Signs 2010 Defense Budget Into Law

    Defense officials are hailing passage of the fiscal 2010 budget that funds military programs and wartime operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and provides a military pay raise.President Barack Obama signed the 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act into law Dec. 19 after the Senate approved it

  • Thunderbolt up close

    A KC-135R Stratotanker from the Air Force Reserve Command's 336th Air Refueling Squadron conducts night aerial refueling training with an A-10 Thunderbolt II from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base over southern Arizona. 

  • Holiday Notes from Home airs Dec 23-25

    Amy Grant, Brian McKnight and Take 6 join the Band of the Air Force Reserve and Air Force Strings in this year's Holiday Notes from Home concert on the American Forces Network and the Gospel Music Channel this holiday season.The hour-long special will air on the Gospel Music Channel Dec. 23 at 10

  • Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters fly first winter storm

    The Air Force Reserve "Hurricane Hunters" are tasked by the National Weather Service to fly their first winter storm of the season on the East Coast starting Friday.The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron "Hurricane Hunters" assigned to the 403rd Wing, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., are perhaps

  • AF Reserve loses Airman in Operation Enduring Freedom

    The Department of Defense announced the death of a 932nd Airlift Wing airman who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.Tech. Sgt. Anthony C. Campbell Jr., 35, of Florence, Ky., died Dec. 15 of wounds suffered from the detonation of an improvised explosive device in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

  • 10 nominated for major general, 15 for brigadier general

    Ten Air Force Reserve brigadier generals and 15 colonels have been nominated for promotion to the next higher rank by President Obama.Nominated to the U.S. Senate for promotion to major general are:Brig. Gens. Eric W. Crabtree, commander of 4th Air Force, March Air Reserve Base, Calif.Wallace W.

  • AFRC commander visits deployed troops

    Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., Air Force Reserve Command commander, visits with 746th Aircraft Maintenance Unit servicemembers during a base visit, Dec. 7, 2009. General Stenner was traveling throughout Southwest Asia visiting Reservists deployed in support of operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring