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

Back on home turf

Reserve rescue crews join search for missing NFL players, boaters

Air Force Reserve Rescue crews from the 920th Rescue Wing (RQW) here took off in an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter March 1 at 5:00 p.m. to join the Coast Guard in a search for four missing boaters in the Gulf of Mexico. Detroit Lions defensive end Corey Smith and Oakland Raiders linebacker Victor

ARPC explains procedures for validating early retired pay

Air Reserve Personnel Center officials are finalizing procedures for validating the receipt of retired pay before Citizen Airmen turn 60 years old. Since Jan. 28, 2008, Guard and Reserve Airmen can reduce the age they receive retirement pay by three months for each aggregate of 90-day period of

Air Force Reserve senior officers nominated for promotion

Six Air Force Reserve brigadier generals and 15 colonels have been nominated by the president for promotion, according to an announcement Feb. 25 by Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., chief of Air Force Reserve. Nominated for promotion to a second star are: - Brig. Gens. Roger A, Binder, mobilization

Rescue reservists deploy to Africa

Reservist "maps" past with present during combat air patrol

An Air Force reservist flew with a piece of history Feb. 8 - more than 63 years after a Tuskegee Airman's last combat mission. Lt. Col. David Smith, a deployed F-16 pilot from the 93rd Fighter Squadron, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., paid tribute to Army Air Corps Flight Officer Gordon Hay Jr. by