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  • Unit helps reservists, families deal with post-deployments

    Reservists and families from the 315th Airlift Wing at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., are now getting more help after they return from a long deployment. In the 2007 Defense Appropriations Act, Congress mandated that reserve forces give reservists and their families more deployment and

  • Air Force Reserve gets new command chief

    Chief Master Sgt. Dwight D. Badgett has held a variety of jobs on the way to becoming Air Force Reserve Command's new command chief master sergeant, including being a high school teacher. Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., chief of Air Force Reserve and AFRC commander, selected Chief Badgett for the

  • Reservists help get wheelchairs to needy Iraqi children

    After a brief stop in America's Heartland, an Air Force Reserve C-130 aircrew from here took another step in a long journey for a special load of cargo headed for Iraq. On June 11, reservists from the 302nd Airlift Wing flew to Sioux City, Iowa, where they received four pallets of children's

  • Board seeks nominations for in-residence schools

    To get ahead in the Air Force Reserve, officers attend in-residence developmental education schools. Some of them should be checking their calendars now for the next board. The Air Force Reserve Developmental Education Designation Board will convene here in November to pick officers for schools in

  • Hawaii aerial porters garner Air Force award

    Hickam's 48th Aerial Port Squadron is the Air Force's best Air Reserve Component Air Transportation Activity for 2008. Lt. Col. Randall Honke, 48th APS commander; Chief Master Sgt. Leland How, 48th APS air freight superintendent; and Col. Robert "Randy" Huston, 624th Regional Support Group

  • Deployed reservist to face adjustments back home

    Reservists who deploy face many challenges when they return home, including the prospect of not having a job. Maj. Bill Pierce, a public affairs officer in the 507th Air Refueling Wing here, is not getting his old civilian job back because he's been promoted. The Board of Education in Putnam City,

  • More than a loadmaster

    Three, two, one, launch! But this launch isn't part of the space program. It's launching dropsondes or "sondes"out of a WC-130J Hercules to record vertical weather data for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla. "It's the best job I've ever

  • Too many Airmen opting out of SGLI

    For less than one dollar a day, Airmen can prevent financial hardship for their families if they die unexpectedly. Although the $27 a month Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance premium provides $400,000 in coverage and automatically comes out of military paychecks, some people are opting out of

  • Space aggressor helps community

    An imagery analyst with the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo., is Air Force Reserve Command's nominee for the 2009 American Legion Spirit of Service Award. Staff Sgt. Katherine Githens contributed her time, service and money to 25 worthy causes in her community during 2008. She

  • Reservist gives back during Air Force Week

    Speaking to children whose parents are currently deployed, as well as other community members, Lt. Col. Paul "Buster" Delmonte, a 466th Fighter Squadron flight commander, summed up last week's Air Force Week efforts in one sentence: "It's not my Air Force, it's yours." Colonel Delmonte was one of