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AFRC News

  • Air Force aerial firefighters train in New Mexico

    Air Force C-130 transport aircraft dotted the skies over central New Mexico from April 30 to May 4 in preparation for this year's firefighting season. The Cibola National Forest and the Air Force Reserve Command's 302nd Airlift Wing, based at Peterson AFB, Colo., hosted the annual training and

  • Mission support group finds creative solution to training turbulence

    As commanders and first sergeants struggle to keep their Citizen Airmen up to date on ancillary training, leadership from the 442nd Mission Support Group recently established "Ancillary University." The two-month-old program, which features classes en masse versus individual and small-group

  • Air Force air evac crews adapt, train onboard mix of planes

    Caring for patients on an aircraft is no easy task.  Throw in patient emergencies, problems with the aircraft or an unfamiliar aircraft and the challenges become even greater. Aeromedical crews faced these and other issues during an Air Force Reserve Aeromedical Evacuation Jamboree here April

  • Charleston wing uses cable TV to reach community

    The 315th Airlift Wing here in partnership with Comcast Cable Television of Charleston is producing a monthly news-talk television show called Troop Talk. Troop Talk reaches more than 110,000 households throughout the Charleston television market and showcases to the community the efforts of

  • Smith represents reservists on all-Air Force team

    She was always watching. She was always stuck on the sidelines, mesmerized for hours on end by the action taking place just a few tantalizing feet away. But she wasn't a part of it...she was only a spectator, just watching. Watching as her older brothers ran up and down the driveway, dribbling,

  • Command announces 2006 Outstanding Airmen of Year

    Air Force Reserve Command selected its 2006 Outstanding Airmen and First Sergeant of the Year during a banquet held at the Museum of Aviation here April 27. The winners are: · Airman of the Year: Staff Sgt. Clinton Petit, security forces journeyman and individual mobilization augmentee, 45th

  • New friends grant old wish

    The shy, more than slightly reserved young pilot in the flight suit looked about the room nervously. Behind small-framed glasses, his eyes darted from person to person. Flash bulbs went off and a news camera looked on as a booming voice read the last of his citation. "... and so it is with great

  • Reservist receives a blue and white tribute

    A March Field pilot who received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in Iraq was honored April 9 at the Los Angeles Dodgers season-opening baseball game. Maj. Paul Sonstein, a C-17 pilot who was then stationed at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., was flying continuous missions back and forth

  • Reservists take medical care to Guatemalans

    Journeying as much as 10,000 feet above sea level, a group of 31 Air Force Reserve Command medics brought a wealth of medical knowledge to the mountainous region of San Marcos as part of New Horizons 07, April 14-28. New Horizons is a joint chiefs of staff-approved, U.S. Southern Command-sponsored

  • Hill Total Force Integration signed into action

    A historic agreement was signed into place April 16, finalizing the association between the 388th Fighter Wing and 419th Fighter Wing here. The Commander of Air Combat Command, Gen. Ronald Keys, and the Commander of Air Force Reserve Command, Lt. Gen. John Bradley, signed a Memorandum of