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AFRC News

  • Reserve recruiters reach goal for 17th year

    Air Force Reserve Command Recruiting Service has met the command’s accession goal for the 17th consecutive year.For the past fiscal year, Reserve recruiters not only reached their goal but surpassed it, ending the year with 8,241 accessions equating to 101.7 percent of the goal.“I want to give a

  • The Airman who traveled the world but never left Keesler

    For more than 30 years, Senior Master Sgt. Eric H. Johnson III, 403rd Maintenance Squadron Propulsion Flight chief, has cared for and kept the propellers turning at Keesler Air Force Base, the only base to which he was assigned his entire Air Force career.

  • AFRC commander unveils "Earth, Blood and Fire” painting

    During the 49th Air Mobility Command and Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium in Orlando, Oct. 26 through 29, Lt. Gen. Maryanne Miller, commander of the Air Force Reserve Command, Air Force Reserve, unveiled the painting "Earth, Blood and Fire,” a painting that depicts the Modular Airborne Fire

  • Reserve Citizen Airman aids Hurricane Maria victims in Puerto Rico

    Having just experienced the wrath of Hurricane Irma as it tore through his hometown of Melbourne, Florida, early September 2017, Master Sgt. Gerardo Ramos was on pins and needles as he watched the next Category 5 hurricane, Maria, ravage Puerto Rico, the island where he spent the first 21 years of

  • Reserve Citizen Airman key in Florida veterans court

    Air Force Reserve Citizen Airman Senior Master Sgt. James Salgado plays a key role in the Tampa-area Veterans Treatment Court, volunteering as lead mentor and operations director for the court which has a bi-weekly docket of nearly 100 veterans.

  • Defenders gain air assault skills

    Imagine standing at the open door of a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with its four blades spinning deafeningly above and the ground 90 feet below -- and then stepping over the edge. So far, three members of the 403rd Security Forces Squadron have done just that as the culmination of their

  • RIO Connect app revolutionizes access to information

    The latest release of the RIO Connect Individual Mobilization Augmentee Mobile Wingman application now enables Reserve Citizen Airmen to access common access card-secured sites from their mobile devices when paired with a mobile CAC reader and associated software.

  • Reserve Citizen Airmen battle hurricanes on many fronts, save lives

    As tens of thousands of people continue to deal with the impact of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, Reservists throughout the country are fighting the worst of Mother Nature’s wrath.At the 433rd Airlift Wing located at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, Reservists delivered medical personnel,