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  • Kevin Waterhouse, Chief Master Sgt. Monte Snyder, and Master Sgt. Chastity Roush are master resiliency trainers for the 403rd Wing, an Air Force Reserve unit at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. They assist with teaching first term Airmen in nine areas that enhance resilience, one of the core tenets of the Air Force’s Comprehensive Airman Fitness, which encompasses creating Airmen with solid mental, physical, social and spiritual well-being. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lt. Col. Marnee A.C. Losurdo)

    Master resilience trainers enhance wellness

    Resilience is the capacity to recover from life’s difficulties; the ability to be knocked down by life and come back as strong as before. Some people come by it naturally, succeeding despite incredibly difficult circumstances. Even if someone doesn’t come by it as natural as other people, the good news is that resilience can be learned, said Chief
  • Training Environment Serves the Community

    Training Environment Serves the Community

    Sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, this IRT is an Air Force Reserve-led multi service/component training event intended to build mutually beneficial partnerships between the U.S. Department of Defense and local communities. The mission provides service members with hands-on readiness training opportunities, while providing direct and lasting benefits to residents of each community served.
  • Senior Airman Kenneth Blue III, a 434th aircraft guidance and controls technician, poses for a photo next to a KC-135 Stratotanker at Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind. June 6, 2019. Blue was recently accepted in the United States Air Force Academy and will undergo a rigorous academic and military training program before commissioning as an officer. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Courtney Dotson-Essett)

    Grissom maintainer earns a spot at Air Force Academy

    Three men of the Blue family share two things in common: they each have the first name Kenneth and each share a proud history of military service. However, only one of them is a son of Grissom and is headed to the Air Force Academy. For now, Kenneth Blue III is an aircraft guidance and controls technician with the 434th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron.
  • Lt. Gen. David Thompson, Air Force Space Command vice commander, observes downtown Pittsburgh, June 14, 2019.

    Steel foundation: Locally-born general comes home to tell AF story

    Lt. Gen. David Thompson, vice commander of Air Force Space Command and Pittsburgh local, visited several key organizations in the area June 13 and 14, 2019.
  • June is PTSD Awareness Month

    PTSD Awareness Month

  • Joint service members and civilians discuss Individual Ready Reserve program topics during Day Two of the 2019 Joint IRR Conference, hosted by HQ Air Reserve Personnel Center, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, June 13-15, 2019.

    HQ ARPC hosts 2019 Joint IRR Conference

    The Joint IRR Conference included representatives from the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy, educating one another on their service-specific IRR programs. While each service program has the same Office of the Secretary of Defense policies driving them, the consensus was that the conference was of great value for each service to attend by being able to discuss ongoing problems experienced by each branch.
  • Master Sgt. Brandan Keel

    Running with faith: an Airman’s journey to redemption

    Standing there with a knife in hand and cold-hearted from the most devastating news of his life, Master Sgt. Brandan “Troy” Keel contemplated an irreversible decision. Looking into his wife’s eyes after learning she was pregnant with another man’s baby, he couldn’t fathom living anymore. Suicide, he thought, was imminent.
  • Torren Jackson (center) is pictured with rescuers that helped free him from swift running water May 29, 2019 when he was swept from the road while riding his bike and trapped inside a culvert in Prague, Oklahoma. From left: Teggan Jackson, Dakota Fite, Torren Jackson and Eric Whitesel. (Courtesy photo by Sharon Lee/Prague Times Herald)

    Reservist rescues boy from flood waters

    A KC-135 Stratotanker crew chief with the 507th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here saved the life of an eight year old boy who was trapped in a flooded drainage ditch May 29, 2019, in Prague, Oklahoma.
  • Share Your Adventure

    Share Your Adventure: help the Reserve team grow through testimony

    The peer referral program is the lead source generator for AFRC RS with one of four people referred by current Reservists joining the Air Force Reserve and is replacing the command’s Get1Now campaign. As manning levels continue to increase for AFRC and other branches of service and the nation’s economy continues to be strong, Share Your Adventure is a vital program to help recruiters gather quality leads and assure AFRC has the manning it needs to excel in its mission to fly, fight and win.
  • Capt. Amber Hauer, a 34th Aeromedical Squadron flight nurse, climbs aboard a 20-man life raft during water survival refresher training in Key West, Florida, May 22, 2019. (U.S. Air Fore photo by Tech. Sgt. Frank Casciotta)

    Reservists conduct urban and water survival training

    Reserve Citizen Airmen with the 302nd Airlift Wing's 731st Operations Group and 34th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron spent three days practicing Survival Evasion and Resistance Escape skills in Key West, Florida, May 21-23.
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