New accountability system to go online Air Force-wide

A new personnel accountability system goes on-line April 1 and affects both Airmen and civilians. The Air Force Personnel Accountability Assessment System is a new total force web-based program that assists Air Force people and their families after a disaster or large-scale crisis. The old

Air Force approves Reserve B-52 formal training unit

As part of the Air Force's reorganization of its B-52 forces, Air Force Reserve Command's 93rd Bomb Squadron here will spearhead the Air Force's B-52 Formal Training Unit program. Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, Air Force chief of staff, formally approved the total force integration initiative March 9. The

Air Force Reserve announces command & control awards

Air Force Reserve Command officials here announced the winners of the command's 2008 command and control awards March 5. The winners are: Large command post - 917th Wing, Barksdale AFB, La. Small command post - 910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio Command post senior NCO - Master

Reserve civil engineers deploy to Southwest Asia

Arizona rescue unit to support Space Shuttle launch

The 943rd Rescue Group deployed March 7 to Patrick AFB, Fla., to support the upcoming Space Shuttle Discovery launch mission. The Air Force Reserve rescue group deployed two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters, nine maintainers and four pararescuemen to augment its parent unit, the 920th Rescue Wing at

Clearing space

917th Wing shines at Bomb Comp

Air Force reservists from the 917th Wing took top honors in every event they competed in during the Giant Sword II/Proud Shield II Bomb & Load Competition and Symposium here. The wing's 93rd Bomb Squadron B-52 crew won Best Bomb B-52 and Proud Shield II Best Bomb during the last weeks of February.

Reserve Raptor runs in Alaska Fur Rondy

March transports NASA's Mars exploration robot rover

NASA's latest Mars exploration robot receives its air certification at March ARB so it can be transported on the C-17 Globemaster III. The Mars Science Laboratory rover will be flown to Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a C-17 from March ARB. It is scheduled to launch in 2011 to assess whether Mars was, or

Reserve rescue crews continue search for missing NFL players

As the search continues for four missing boaters in the Gulf of Mexico, two who are well-known NFL players, Air Force Reserve Rescue crews from the 920th Rescue Wing (RQW) here prepare to launch two aircraft to help find them March 2.  On March 1 rescue crews took off in an HH-60G Pave Hawk