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AFRC News

  • Hill fighter wings first to bring F-35A to Red Flag

    Pilots and maintainers from the 419th and 388th Fighter Wings deployed the F-35A Lightning II to Nellis AFB, Nevada, Jan. 20.This is the first deployment to Red Flag for the F-35A and the first large movement since the Air Force declared the jet combat ready in August 2016.Red Flag is the Air

  • Reserve warriors support successful launch

    The U.S. Air Force Reserve's 920th Rescue Wing supported United Launch Alliance’s successful launch of the third Space Based Infrared Systems Geosynchronous Earth Orbit spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, Jan. 20 at 7:42 p.m. ET.The

  • Goldfein addresses priorities for the 21st century

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein outlined his perspective on the future of American airpower and how Airmen “deployed in place” play a vital role in today’s Air Force during his discussion at the American Enterprise Institute Public Forum in Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 2017.

  • 315th delivers aid bound for refugees in northern Iraq

    Six pallets, more than 50,000 pounds, over a quarter of a million Kurdish refugees fed. Reservists from the 315th Airlift Wing delivered humanitarian aid bound for refugee camps in northern Iraq this weekend while also conducting a multifaceted training mission.

  • Reservist journeys from first sergeant to flight nurse

    After 22-years of service, most people start thinking about retirement… well, not everyone. In a somewhat unusual move, 1st Lt. Julia Lesage, a former first sergeant, decided after more than two decades in the Air Force to hang up her stripes and pursue a commission to become a flight nurse.

  • Federal employees see pay raise for 2017

    Executive Order 13756 authorizes a 1 percent across-the-board pay increase for federal employees and locality increases costing ~1.1 percent, for an average pay increase of 2.1 percent.

  • Reservist to be featured on Harry Connick Jr show Jan. 16

    Maj. Christina Hopper, an Air Force Reserve F-16 pilot from Vance Air Force base, Oklahoma, will be the featured guest on NBC's daytime show "Harry," starring Harry Connick Jr., Jan. 16 to coincide with Martin Luther King Day.