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AFRC News

  • Saving lives in the Pacific

    More than 140 reservists with the 446th Airlift Wing here are taking part in the Pacific Lifeline exercise in Hawaii Jan. 26 to Feb. 9. Of the wing's participating squadrons, the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron leads the pack with 84 people. Other reservists belong to the Air Force Reserve

  • Mother replaces son on Kirkuk's front lines

    As many parents anxiously await the next phone call from their sons and daughters serving in Iraq, one mother journeyed across the Atlantic to not only see her child; but to replace him on the front line. Atop a remote guard tower, mother and son stand post peering across the barbed wire into the

  • Shooting for the stars - C-17 pilot auditions for American Idol

    At first sight, she looks like any other talented performer, bringing her music to patrons lucky enough to catch one of her local singing gigs, but don't let her youthful looks fool you. This nightclub singer also flies a half-million pound airlifter into combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Capt.

  • Reserve Recruiter's son catches Texas record

    They thought they were finished. Nothing caught. Nothing biting. The three anglers were clock watching, waiting for high noon on Cedar Creek Lake in North Texas, when one of the poles bent into a familiar shape. "We knew it was big," said Mitchell Kimbrough, 15, who walked to his fishing rod and

  • Air Force Reserve selects units for awards

    Air Force reservists in selected units from Massachusetts to Hawaii will need to adjust their military ribbons this year. Seventeen Air Force Reserve Command units - ranging in size from a flight to a flying wing - earned the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for 2007. In a Jan. 7 memorandum, AFRC

  • Command announces financial management/comptroller awards

    Air Force Reserve Command officials here announced the command's 2007 financial management and comptroller awards Jan. 14. The 911th Airlift Wing at Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pa., received the most awards. In addition to winning the financial management and comptroller

  • Reserve Airmen train Guardsmen on Raptor

    Reservists here are training members of the Air National Guard as part of total force integration. Airmen from the 477th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here trained 13 Airmen from the Alaska Air National Guard's 176th Wing Jan. 13 on take-off and recovery procedures for the F-22 Raptor. The Air Guard

  • ROVER provides pilot's view to ground forces

    When A-10 pilots from here deploy to Afghanistan this spring, they will share a better picture of the battlefield with troops on the ground. An enhancement on LITENING-AT targeting pods, known as the remotely operated video enhanced receiver, lifts some of the fog of war. ROVER allows 442nd Fighter

  • Air Force outlines plans for new planes, systems

    Sixteen Air Force Reserve Command sites appear on the Air Force's "roadmap" for basing weapons systems in the future. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley announced the long-term plan Jan. 16. It projects what Air Force capabilities the nation needs in the 21st century to meet threats to