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  • Enlisted corps nominates colonel for Order of Sword

    The enlisted people of Air Force Reserve Command nominated the commander of recruiting service for induction in the command's Order of the Sword in a ceremony here July 31. Col. Francis M. Mungavin accepted the nomination from Chief Master Sgt. Troy McIntosh, AFRC command chief master sergeant. The

  • Seasoning program gets Airmen trained faster

    A year ago, Brad Vanzandt was a tractor salesman wondering what direction he wanted his life to take. He decided to make a change, a big change of "220,000 volts." He told his father, an Air Force retiree and electrical engineer, what he wanted to do. The contract jobs his father worked on in

  • Brothers in arms cross paths in Afghanistan

    Senior Airman Matthew Delgado made one last trip back home before deploying to Bagram, Afghanistan, in May. Halfway into his four-month deployment, he was surprised when someone knocked on his dorm room door and told him his older brother was waiting for him at the post exchange here. Army Private

  • Chaplain candidates tour Charleston

    Forty-four chaplain candidates arrived here July 27 on the fourth stop of a 28-day tour. The tour is designed to give the candidates an introduction to the Air Force Reserve. Many of the candidates are in their first year of seminary and beginning to learn about what people do in the Air Force.

  • Air Force Reserve unit tests solar-powered cart

    The new cart costs about $8,000 - roughly $1,200 more than its plug-in counterpart - but it could create savings over time through reduced utility bills and a longer battery life. With summer temperatures topping 90 degrees, March reservists are no strangers to the heat. June brought record-breaking

  • Farnborough Air Show 'something to tell grandkids'

    Dreams danced off silver-tipped wings as more than a quarter of a million spectators attended the sold-out Farnborough Air Show in England July 13-20. For one couple, the dream will last a lifetime. Nitan Vadher wanted to surprise his girlfriend, Seema Chudasama, by asking her to marry him on the

  • Grissom supports Purdue scientific experiment

    Air Force aircrews routinely fly people and cargo to different parts of the world. On July 28, a KC-135R Stratotanker crew from here took Professor Ephraim Fischbach of Purdue University's physics department, his staff and their cargo to Thule Air Base, Greenland, to conduct a scientific experiment.