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AFRC News

  • Command announces Aviation Resource Management Awards

    Air Force Reserve Command has announced the 2014 Outstanding Aviation Resource Management Awards. The following individuals and organizations will represent AFRC in the Air Reserve Component competition.Senior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year: Master Sgt. Mark E. Frizzo, 73rd Airlift Squadron,

  • Reservist saves critically injured teens after watercraft accident

    Like millions of Americans, Senior Master Sgt. Steph Schwarz was looking forward to watching the NFL playoffs Sunday afternoon. Instead, he ended up responding to the scene of an accident that played out in his backyard."I heard a crash from outside that was loud enough to make me jump out of my

  • Pittsburgh Airman helps at car accident, prevents certain disaster

    An Airman here helped prevent certain disaster when he assisted accident victims on a snow-covered interstate highway Jan. 6.Senior Master Sgt. Bruce Zimmerman, 911th Security Forces Squadron operations superintendent, was driving to work for the early shift when a couple of miles in front of him, a

  • Command announces 2014 Medical Award winners

    Air Force Reserve Command announced the winners of the 2014 MedicalAwards.Winners, by category are:Nursing Leadership ExcellenceAward -- Lt. Col. Kelly E. Compas, 932nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron, Scott AirForce Base, Illinois.Outstanding Field Grade Officer assigned to aReserve Ground Medical Unit

  • 2014 Air Force year in photos

    A C-130J Hercules and WC-130J Hercules fly in formation during an Operation Surge Capacity exercise April, 5, 2014, over the Mississippi Gulf Coast region. Aircraft from the 815th and 345th Airlift Squadrons and 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron participated in the large-scale training exercise

  • DoD Releases 2015 Military Pay and Compensation Rates

    Today, the Department of Defense announced the 2015 military pay and compensation rates for service members, with most service members receiving a one percent increase in basic pay.The new rates for basic pay, basic allowance for housing, basic allowance for subsistence, and the cost of living

  • Reserve PJ's among Mackay Trophy honorees for meritorious flight

    In the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, in the same exhibit hall with Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and the Wright Brothers' 1903 flyer, under a case of protective glass, stands a massive silver cup, lined in gold, atop a three-tiered mahogany pedestal.The pedestal

  • From Plane to Table: Reserve aircrew deliver food to thousands in Nicaragua

    Donna Wright was anxiously peering out through a rusty fence on a humid Saturday afternoon when a C-5M Super Galaxy touched down on the runway. She waved at the pilots as the mammoth plane made its way to a parking spot close to the passenger terminal. It was a rainy day in Managua, Nicaragua, so

  • Dobbins Civilian Personnel Office achieves "second-to-none" status

    For the fourth consecutive year, the 94th Force Support Squadron civilian personnel office was chosen as the Air Force Reserve Command Civilian Personnel Program of the Year for their excellence in taking care of the civilian workforce here.It's been the same team for those four years, said Kelly

  • ARPC announces colonel promotions

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials here announced results for the 2014 Air Force Reserve Line and Nonline Colonel Promotion Selection Boards today.The selection boards convened at the center Oct. 6, 2014 to determine those officers qualified to assume the next higher grade. Board members