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AFRC News

  • Air Force Reserve Facebook fanpage invites Airmen to engage online

    Airmen now have another conduit to connect within the Air Force Reserve Command. More than 600 facebook users have already become "fans" of AFRC at http://bit.ly/AFRC-Fan .The official fan page site features informal postings from AFRC, video posts and photos. Fans can add comments to the page.

  • 940th reservists with Haitian ties volunteer

    As soon as the call came out for volunteers to participate in Haitian earthquake relief efforts, 940th Wing Reservists stepped forward. One of the first to volunteer was Tech. Sgt. Francois Celestin, a Services Flight member whose family lives in the heart of the devastated city of Port-au-Prince,

  • World's largest airlifter moves mobile air traffic control tower to Haiti

    In a true demonstration of the international support of the relief efforts in Haiti, U.S. Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration officials paired with an airlift contractor Jan. 21 to deliver a mobile air traffic control tower to the Port-au-Prince airport.The mobile tower will stay in place

  • Feeding the masses

    The normally quiet base at Homestead has suddenly become the eye of the storm for the United States military humanitarian relief efforts during Operation Unified Response. The sudden influx of personnel coming on and off base as well as the constant stream of evacuees being in-processed here has led

  • Homestead Air Reserve Base offers respite for Haiti earthquake victims

    Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti Jan. 12, this Reserve base has turned into a staging point where Air Force Airmen are delivering earthquake victims to reunite with relatives and loved ones. The base, located approximately 25 miles southwest of Miami, has become a hub of

  • March C-17s return from Haiti missions

    Two C-17 Globemaster IIIs from the 729th Airlift Squadron returned to March Air Reserve Base Jan. 18 after flying earthquake relief missions to Port-au-Prince. By mid-afternoon Jan. 18, Airmen from the 452nd Maintenance Group had regenerated the C-17s and new 729th AS crews were in the air for

  • Peterson-based AF Reservists join in Haiti relief efforts

    Two Air Force Reserve aircraft and aircrews assigned to the Colorado-based 302nd Airlift Wing received short-notice orders over the weekend to airlift evacuees out of Haiti and deliver needed supplies to the earthquake-stricken Caribbean nation.The C-130 Hercules aircraft were re-routed from

  • Band performs winter concert tour

    The Band of the U.S. Air Force Reserve begins its 10-day annual winter concert tour Jan. 28."Every year the concert band tours different places in southern Georgia and Florida," said Maj. Don Schofield, Band of the U.S. Air Force Reserve commander.This year the band added three new cities -

  • Processing the evacuated

    As planes continue to leave Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., full of relief supplies bound for Haiti, a great number of planes return full of evacuees coming home to the United States. These people, many of them U.S. citizens or residents, must go through evacuation in-processing at Homestead