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AFRC News

  • Airmen, Sailors, Soldiers take part in Paris air show

    Stronger muscles, a stretched body and a vastly more intelligent brain made the C-130J-30 an attraction at the 2005 Paris International Air Show. The U.S. Air Force’s newest airlifter appeared for the first time at the Paris venue, the world’s oldest and largest air show. “This aircraft has more

  • BRAC affects Air Force reservists in 22 states

    If put into law, Air Force Reserve Command will close three installations and move people from a dozen locations to two dozen sites throughout the United States.Although command officials anticipate keeping roughly the same troop level authorizations, AFRC will expand some existing missions such as

  • Master athlete takes on world games

    With more than 35 years of experience as a runner, Lt. Col. David M. Hardwick spends as much as 20 hours a week training for his third World Masters Games. The chief of intelligence for the 445th Operations Support Squadron here will join more than 21,000 athletes from 82 countries in Edmonton,

  • Reservists need to register civilian employment info

    Time is running out for about 15,000 Air Force reservists in the Selected Reserve to comply with a Department of Defense directive. Oct. 31 is the deadline for reservists who are paid for training to register information about their civilian place of employment. Some 60,000 of these Airmen, roughly

  • Reservist finishes first runner-up in Miss Hawaii pageant

    An Air Force reservist stationed here placed first runner-up at the Miss Hawaii Pageant June 10 during a ceremony at the Coral Ballroom of the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Waikiki, Hawaii. Senior Airman Angela Everhart, a utility systems specialist with Air Force Reserve Command’s 624th Civil Engineer

  • Last C-141 crew chief class prepares to keep birds flying

    Imagine being the last of a kind and the possibility of extinction isn’t a too far off in the future. That’s the position three reservists are in as the last three C-141 Starlifter crew chief’s the Air Force will train. July 25 will be a historic day when they graduate. Staff Sgt. Lauro Valles Jr.,

  • Command announces team excellence award winner

    Members of the 340th Flying Training Group’s OpsNet team will represent Air Force Reserve Command in the annual Air Force Chief of Staff Team Excellence Award competition in September.Maj. Gen. David E. Tanzi, AFRC vice commander, congratulated the group April 29 on the team winning the command

  • Airmen join Soldiers taking Kenya military to new heights

    As the sun rose June 6, seven Airmen wearing desert flightsuits stood outside the guarded entrance to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport waiting for their passengers. The Air Force Reserve Command C-130 Hercules crew was handpicked to take several dozen Kenyan army special operations forces’

  • Airman teaches deaf man to fly

    With planes taking off down the runway behind her, the flight instructor begins talking more loudly while illustrating a point to her student. Then she remembers he cannot hear a word she is saying. He is deaf.Senior Airman Christy Helgeson met Rob Drake at a local flying club, where she is an