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AFRC News

  • Reservist to receive Air Force Academy airmanship award

    A 1979 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy is going back to school May 13.Lt. Col. Keith Schultz, deputy commander of the 917th Wing’s Operations Group here, will accept the academy’s 2005 Col. James Jabara Award for Airmanship during lunch in the academy’s Mitchell Hall.The award honors him for

  • Personnel center stops mailing point credit summary

    The Air Reserve Personnel Center here no longer mails Air Force Form 526, Air National Guard/Air Force Reserve Point Credit Summary, to Air Force reservists.Guard and Reserve members had been receiving the form annually since October 1972. They must now use the virtual Military Personnel Flight to

  • Reservists overcome challenges of going to Guatemala

    The 10-day medical training exercise to Guatemala in April presented several challenges for reservists from Air Force Reserve Command’s 710th Medical Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.Squadron medical planner Maj. Jerry Hall, nurse Capt. Kami Willet and health services specialist Master Sgt.

  • Airmen travel to Guatemala to train, treat patients

    Outside a primitive five-room elementary school hundreds of villagers lined up to receive medical, dental and optometry care.Thirty-three Airmen left Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., April 23 to provide that care for 10 days at three different schools in villages surrounding the city of Coban in the

  • New commandwide anti-drug initiative begins

    Supply and demand are part of life in America. Unfortunately, that life includes a large supply of abused legal and illegal drugs.In an effort to reduce the demand for these drugs, Air Force Reserve Command began its “True Blue” campaign commandwide in April.“In the past, anti-drug or anti-substance

  • BRAC: Information available for affected bases

    The Secretary of Defense is expected to announce the proposed Base Realignment and Closure list during a press conference May 13.Air Force officials understand the effect BRAC can have on servicemembers, retirees, employees and their families.To assist people with vital BRAC information, the Air

  • Air Force announces aviation resource management awards

    Air Force officials recently announced the winners of the 2004 Outstanding Air Force Aviation Resource Management of the Year Awards.The 2004 winners are:-- Airman of the Year: Airman 1st Class Dusty S. Stofan, 17th Special Operations Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan.-- Noncommissioned Officer of

  • Two Airmen among recipients of military service award

    Two Airmen were among the six recipients of the annual Government Employees Insurance Company Military Service Awards. For 17 years, GEICO has recognized servicemembers from all branches of the service -- including the Guard and Reserve -- for work in drug and alcohol abuse prevention, fire and

  • Deployed sergeant takes STEP to technical sergeant

    One of the Air Reserve Personnel Center’s best people received some great news April 24 while deployed to Southwest Asia … “You are out of uniform.” Those words came from Maj. Gen. Norman Seip, Combined Forces Air Component deputy commander, when he spoke to Staff Sgt. Brett Sansone. At the time,

  • Reservists set example at New Horizons 2005 camp

    In a camp tucked away in southwest Panama, two Airmen are leaving a lasting impression on their fellow servicemembers and the local people they meet. Master Sgt. Steve Axie and Tech. Sgt. George Lyon have grown to call it home, but three months ago, the two arrived to build a base camp on a horse