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AFRC News

  • Reserve A-10 unit redirected to Kandahar Airfield

    442nd Fighter Wing Airmen and A-10 aircraft, originally slated to deploy to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, have been realigned to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.

  • SECAF/CSAF Letter to Airmen: Government Shutdown

    To the Airmen of the United States Air Force:As you are no doubt aware, funding for the federal government expired at midnight. The administration is urging Congress to enact a short term continuing resolution to fund the federal government to allow Congress more time to finalize the budget for the

  • DoD issues guidance for potential government shutdown

    The Defense Department has issued guidance to its military and civilian leadership on how to proceed if the federal government should shut down at midnight tonight, according to a memorandum from Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan.

  • Enlisted leaders host ‘Real Talk’ forum for deployment reintegration

    The 386th Air Expeditionary Wing Top III council recently organized a "real talk" forum to Airmen preparing to return home from deployment for the first time. The event was an opportunity to hear candid, first-hand accounts of reintegration deployment experiences from a panel of senior

  • Reserve commander visits 944th Citizen Airmen

    Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 944th Fighter Wing welcomed the commander of Air Force Reserve Command, Lt. Gen. Maryanne Miller during the January Unit Training Assembly. Miller spent three days at the home of the F-35 Lightening II, joining 944th FW Reservists as they went through their monthly

  • Keesler Reservists support Southwest Asia operations

    Approximately 150 Air Force Reserve Citizen Airmen and several C-130J Super Hercules aircraft from the 403rd Wing have deployed to Southwest Asia in Support of Operations Freedom’s Sentinel and Inherent Resolve.

  • Flying Ambulances: Aeromedical Evacuation

    The morning starts early with an alert about four hours before take-off.  Members of the 379th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron begin several mandatory tasks before boarding the aircraft.  Nurses go over mission details, as medical technicians pack more than a thousand pounds of

  • AFJROTC launches Flight Academy program to address aircrew shortage

    Headquarters Air Force Junior ROTC has launched a program aimed at potentially putting more pilots in the cockpits of military aircraft to help address the Air Force’s ongoing aircrew shortage.Beginning in the summer of 2018, select AFJROTC cadets who applied for a new Fight Academy scholarship will