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AFRC News

  • Resiliency trainers help Airmen stay mentally fit

    Last month, eight Airmen and one key spouse mentor herebecame Resiliency Training Assistants (RTAs) to support the 301st Fighter Wing'sComprehensive Airman Fitness program. Fitness, an integral part of themilitary, entails an Airman's physical as well mental well-being -- the latterseemingly more

  • Reservists begin training with new aircraft

     The 5th SpecialOperations Squadron added yet another airframe to its list of Air Force SpecialOperations Command aircraft they use to train aircrews.The squadronbegan C-146A Wolfhound formal training unit flights in December at Cannon AirForce Base, N.M. So far, the squadron has trained six pilots

  • McConnell reservists deploy to Southwest Asia

    Air Force Reservists from the 931st Air Refueling Group, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Feb. 5. While deployed, aircrew and support personnel from the 931 ARG will fly aerial refueling missions, perform aircraft maintenance and fill other support roles while

  • President’s Budget Request restores manpower to the Air Force Reserve

    The Department of Defense budget requestfor fiscal year 2016 includes a number of proposed changes for the Air ForceReserve. If enacted into law, the DOD budget request would restore 2,100manpower positions to the Air Force Reserve and increase the Air ForceReserve’s presence in a number of mission

  • 24 senior officers nominated for promotions

    President Obama has nominated to the U.S. Senate 10 brigadier generals and 14 colonels for a Reserve of the Air Force appointment to the next higher ranks. Nominated for promotion to major general are: Brig. Gen. Abel Barrientes, mobilization assistant to the Pacific Air Forces vice commander, Joint

  • When seconds count: Ops schedulers coordinate high-altitude connections

    Twojet aircraft racing toward each other at over 300 mph, then maneuvering justmiles apart to connect for inflight refueling at exactly the second they werescheduled isn't just amazing, it's reality here at Grissom.Working behind the scenes to make that midair connection happen are plannersand

  • Bird's eye view

    Two F-15E Strike Eagles wait to receive fuel from a KC-135R Stratotanker Jan. 23, 2015, on their way to Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., in support of Red Flag 15-1. The exercise, featuring aircraft from 21 different Air Force squadrons, offers realistic combat training involving the air, space and

  • Welcome home

    Captain Lee Place, 934th Operations Support Squadron, greets his overjoyed children as he exits the aircraft. Members of the 934th Airlift Wing, friends, and family welcomed home their Airmen as they returned back from deployment overseas to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Air Reserve Station, Minn., Jan.

  • AF introduces Volume 9 of Portraits in Courage

    The Air Force released its ninth volume of Portraits in Courage, highlighting five teams and seven individual Airman for their honor, valor, devotion and selfless sacrifice in the face of extreme danger to themselves and others.