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AFRC News

  • 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

  • Self-help project keeps guards safe at Kirkuk

    What provides better force protection: multiple layers of ballistics material or a three-quarters inch sheet of plywood? Thanks to a self-help recycling and construction project by Airmen in Kirkuk's 506th Air Expeditionary Group, people who stand perimeter guard here are receiving fortified guard

  • ARPC announces captain, lieutenant promotions

    The Air Reserve Personnel Center announces the second half of fiscal 2009 line and nonline captain and the second half of the fiscal 2009 first lieutenant promotions. There were 299 Air National Guard and 299 Air Force Reserve officers selected for promotion to captain, and 252 Air National Guard

  • Air Force Reserve picks best ISR people, programs for 2008

    Air Force Reserve Command officials announced March 16 the top reservists, civilians and programs in the command's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance community for 2008. The award winners by category are: Field grade officer - Level I, Lt. Col. Robert Rhoden, Headquarters AFRC, Robins