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AFRC News

  • Reserve members obtain records sooner via website

    As most service members would attest to, waiting for records is tedious when the delay can be up to 14 business days. With that in mind, the Air Reserve Personnel Center here began referring customers to the new eBenefits website, an automated records retrieval portal managed by the Department of

  • Beast Mode challenges McChord

    A participant in the Beast Mode Challenge sponsored by the Air Force Reserve, races through an obstacle course in Snoqualmie, Wash., Aug. 15, 2015. The challenge was composed of a 3.5-mile mud-ridden obstacle course - with 12 football-themed trials of hills, blockades, water, and sludge, created to

  • Aeromedical Evacuation teams keep patients moving

    Located among the myriad of buildings on the Bagram Air Field flightline, it’s easy to miss the simple looking building with the letters “AE” hanging on the outside of it. Chances are, though, if service members must be moved from the battlefield to a medical facility outside of Afghanistan, the

  • Military, civilian first responders partner in exercise

    U.S. Air Force Reserve pararescuemen from the 304th Rescue Squadron -- a geographically-separated unit belonging to the 943rd Rescue Group -- participated in Operation Pathfinder-Minuteman at Camp Rilea, Astoria, OR, as part of an earthquake/tsunami disaster drill Aug. 4-6.More than 250 participants

  • Charleston C-17s help paratroopers celebrate 75 years

    Reserve C-17 aircrews from Joint Base Charleston, S.C., took part in the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Army Airborne School here by dropping a group of Army paratroopers over Lawson Army Airfield.Aircrews from the 701st and 300th Airlift Squadron flew two C-17s during Fort Benning’s Aug. 15

  • 913th Airlift Group Gets Black-Letter Status

    It happens less frequently than a blue moon, and is rarer than a no-hitter in Major League Baseball, but black-letter initials do happen, and the 913th Airlift Group’s Maintenance Squadron made sure it did July 28. A black-letter initial is just that, a crew chief’s initial with black ink on an

  • DOD increases C-130 support for California fires

    The National Interagency Fire Center has made the request to increase the number of DOD Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130s aiding in the suppression of California wildland fires from two to four Aug. 14.Two Air Force Reserve MAFFS equipped C-130 Hercules from the 302nd Airlift

  • Next generation biocontainment system unveiled at Dobbins

    The next generation in biocontainment systems was unveiled in a ceremony Aug. 11 at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia.The 94th Airlift Wing was chosen by the Department of State as the host unit for the Containerized Biocontainment Systems because of the installations proximity to world-class

  • Team Indiana Bosslift gives employers military overview

    From billows of smoke to billowy clouds, employers from Indiana and beyond got into the trenches and high above the Earth for a glimpse of military life.Fifty-two employers visited Grissom Aug. 7-8, 2015 for an employer orientation experience designed to show them just what military members do when

  • Top off

    A B-52H Stratofortress pilot and copilot practice an aerial refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. The B-52 is assigned to the Air Force Reserve Command's 307th Bomb Wing, which hosts the only schoolhouse where Reserve and Active Duty aircrew learn to fly the