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  • Medical Airmen return from 'Arctic' mission

    Technically, they were still within the United States. But to Lt. Col. Cheryl Hooper and Lt. Col. (Dr.) James Clark, it seemed like another world.The two Airmen from the 931st Aerospace Medicine Flight returned in late March from a two-week deployment supporting Operation Arctic Care, a joint

  • Command of 22nd Air Force changes

    Twenty-Second Air Force welcomed a new commander during a change-of-command ceremony April 3 at the 22nd Air Force Senior Leaders Conference 2009 at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel here. Maj. Gen. James T. Rubeor, former deputy to the chief of Air Force Reserve in the Pentagon, succeeded Maj. Gen.

  • Air Force Reserve picks top weather people

    Air Force Reserve Command picked its top weather unit and reservists for 2008, according to an announcement in March. The 5th Operational Weather Flight at Shaw AFB, S.C., was named the best weather flight. The 12th OWF at Scott AFB, Ill., had two award winners. Capt. Christopher T. Higgins is the

  • Command selects best in aviation resource management

    Aviation resource managers from around the United States were named in April as the best in Air Force Reserve Command for 2008. The 916th Air Refueling Wing at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., took the best small team award, and the 446th Airlift Wing, at McChord AFB, Wash., has the top large team.

  • Air Force Reserve names airfield operations award winners

    Air Force Reserve Command officials here announced the 2008 AFRC Airfield Operations Award winners in March. The 94th Operations Group at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., won the D. Ray Hardin Air Traffic Control Facility award. The Ronald D. McCarthy Airfield Management Facility award went to the

  • Air Force reservists to train C-17, KC-135 crews at Altus

    Air Force Reserve Command will stand up a classic associate squadron at Altus Air Force Base, Okla., in 2010, according to an announcement here April 2. Reserve C-17 Globemaster and KC-135 Stratotanker instructors will fly and instruct as part of the integrated Regular Air Force and Reserve crews.

  • Commander speaks to Congress about Air Force Reserve

    Two units received a "positive plug" in the congressional record when the commander of Air Force Reserve Command testified March 25 before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr. touted the strong Yellow Ribbon Program partnership initiatives between the

  • Network news anchor gets a closer look at military mission

    ABC World News anchor Charles Gibson experienced something March 28 his nephew has been talking about for years - a weekend training mission in a C-17 Globemaster III. Mr. Gibson traveled from New York to Charleston AFB and flew with his nephew, Maj. Rob Oswald, the aircraft commander on the 317th