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AFRC News

  • 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

  • Reservists 'deck the halls' at Alaska Fisher House

    Guests at the Alaska Fisher house will feel more at home this holiday season thanks to some hard work and effort by members of the 302nd Fighter Squadron and the 477th Operations Support Flight.The Fisher House program is a unique private-public partnership that supports America's military in their

  • Quiet hurricane season ends

    Members of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron traveled to their forward operating location at Henry E. Rohlsen Airport, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, to close up their facility and officially end tropical storm reconnaissance operations for the 2014 hurricane season.This 2014 season was quiet for

  • DOD Spirit of Hope Award ceremony

    Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James presented the Department of Defense Spirit of Hope Award to military and civilian honorees during a ceremony at the Pentagon, Dec. 12.

  • Homestead has best fitness, food programs in command

    The 482nd Force Support Squadron was selected as Air Force Reserve Command's best fitness and food programs of the year.As the Fitness and Sports Program of the Year, the Sam Johnson Fitness Center received a $4.5 million renovation and was previously awarded the Air Force Reserve Command's Fitness