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  • Air Force Reserve selects top enlisted Airmen

    Air Force Reserve Command honored its top Airmen for 2008 in a ceremony April 1 in Atlanta. The command selected four reservists to represent it in the Air Force's 12 Outstanding Airmen and First Sergeant of the Year competitions. They now compete against Airmen from other major commands and

  • Wright-Patt C-5A gets new air defense system

    Contractors from L3 Communications, based out of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., spent the past two months installing a new defensive system on a C-5A Galaxy aircraft here. The modification, along with recently installed armor plating, will allow the 445th Airlift Wing aircraft to fly in higher threat

  • Reservists help bring medical care to remote Alaska

    Twenty-three Air Force reservists delivered medical care in remote Alaska during a two-week training deployment in March. Operation Arctic Care is a joint-military medical readiness exercise that brings no-cost health care, health education and veterinary services to underserved people in Alaska's

  • Air Force Reserve commander meets with deployed reservists

    The commander of Air Force Reserve Command visited with reservists deployed to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing April 8-9 as part of a multi-base tour of the Air Forces Central in Southwest Asia. Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., who is also chief of Air Force Reserve, dined with the Airmen stationed

  • Reserve pararescuemen conduct water test of new NASA space capsule

    Six pararescuemen from the Air Force Reserve's 920th Rescue Wing conducted recovery testing on a mockup of NASA's next-generation spacecraft at the Trident Turn Basin here Mar. 8. The team of pararescuemen (PJs), Master Sergeants Robert Smith, Chris Seinkner, Matt Roche, Jeffrey McManus and Kenneth

  • Air Force Reserve officers move, stay to take promotions

    This spring some reservists are moving to other states to take Air Force Reserve Command senior office assignments while others are staying in their local areas and moving up in the command. Brig. Gen. Howard N. Thompson was mobilization assistant to the Air Force chief of staff in the Pentagon