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AFRC News

  • Dobbins provides hurricane evacuation support

    Late Wednesday evening, the first of several KC-130s carrying evacuees landed on the Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, flightline. What began as a typical aircraft arrival scene with airfield managers guiding the planes in, became a bit more unique as Marine Corps aircrews offloaded suitcases of

  • Individual Reservists lend a hand after Harvey

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which flooded the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana with more than 50 inches of rain, Air Force Reserve Individual Mobilization Augmentees were on the ground helping with recovery efforts.Many of these Reserve Citizen Airmen contributed in uniform, as emergency

  • 507th enables lifesaving medical training

    The 507th ARW has a fleet of eight KC-135 Stratotankers, which are used mostly for aerial refueling in operations worldwide, but the aircraft can also transform into emergency rooms in the sky to provide lifesaving in-flight patient care during a crisis.

  • Air Commando continues breaking barriers

    Military life is typically unplanned and unpredictable. Some may view that as a negative, but having an open mind and saying yes to opportunities can take you on an unbelievable adventure.For instance take Capt. Kaci Dixon, who is currently an intelligence individual mobilization augmentee, assigned

  • Florida Reserve Airmen fly Texas relief missions

    A contingent of 95 Air Force Reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing, Cocoa Beach, Florida, joined forces with several other groups of military rescue assets and were airborne within the first few hours of arriving here, exercising their combat rescue skills over and around Houston.

  • Wright-Pat C-17 delivers Hurricane Harvey relief teams

    An Air Force Reserve C-17A from the 445th Airlift Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, delivered U.S. Army Soldiers to Kelly Field, Texas Aug. 31. The Soldiers are assigned to assist with the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts in Houston, Port Author and and other areas affected by the massive

  • Reservists address European migrant crisis with Allies, partners

    In the spirit of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s “Twice-the-Citizen” approach, U.S. Air Force and Coast Guard reservists, along with an international committee from 13 NATO nations, led a three-day civil-military exercise, known as a CIMEX, that addressed the migrant crisis across Europe,

  • 301st supports Hurricane Harvey relief

    Air Force Master Sgt. Viviana Molina, 73rd Aerial Port Squadron air transportation, secures webbing straps on 90,000 lbs. of American Red Cross supplies August 29, 2017, at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas, in support of Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Supplies included

  • Reserve Citizen Airmen saving lives in Texas

    Rescuing people in his former home state was thrilling for HH-60G pilot Maj. Jason Tomas, a Florida resident who grew up in Houston. “One of the rescues was close to my hometown, within 10 miles. I didn’t’ realize it at the time,” he said, but upon looking at the map after landing he saw the

  • Dobbins hosts EOD teams from around the world, tests new technology

    A group of explosive ordnance disposal technicians gathered around a set of displays under a tent set up about 20 yards from a small, yellow cinder block building. Inside the building are several rooms, one of which appears to be a makeshift laboratory for manufacturing crystal methamphetamine. The