Lackland's old C-5A workhorse flies into future

Analog compasses and dials from the last century are being replaced with new avionics instrument display screens. These sleek, modernized systems don't make C-5A's completely new but they do enhance some of the old aircraft's capabilities.The first two modernized C-5As are completed and are here. In

Junior ROTC cadets learn about Air Force

March joint-service team grants wish

Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen worked together here in April to grant a wish to a 6-year-old Riverside boy diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Andrew, enrolled in the Inland Empire chapter of the Make A Wish Foundation, wanted to become a member of the military for a day. Air Force,

Best NDI lab in Air Force

Air Force Reserve picks aircrew flight equipment award winners

Aircrew flight equipment people from the East Coast to the West Coast and points in between won Air Force Reserve Command awards for 2008. Command officials announced the following award winners April 17: Officer - Capt. Anthony R. Wilmot, 328th Airlift Squadron, Niagara Falls International Airport

Reservist named best T-1 instructor pilot

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