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AFRC News

  • Communicators turn on "juice" in joint exercise

    Airmen from the 42nd Combat Communications Squadron took part in a month-long joint exercise at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, in June. The Joint Users Interoperability Communications Exercise tests the communication capabilities of federal agencies during emergencies and national and

  • Little Rock unit to get new name

    Air Force Reserve Command's C-130 unit here is changing its name.Maj. Gen. Mark A. Kyle, commander of AFRC's 22nd Air Force, will activate the 913th Airlift Group and present the unit's new guidon in a ceremony July 13. The 913th AG replaces 22nd Air Force, Detachment 1. The detachment was activated

  • AF Reserve announces 10AF leadership changes

    Lieutenant General James F. Jackson, chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve Command, has announced the following senior leader actions. Brigadier Gen. Richard W. Scobee, from director of Plans and Requirements, Office of the Air Force Reserve, Headquarters United States

  • RPA squadron begins operations at Hurlburt Field

    The 919th Special Operations Wing welcomed the 2nd Special Operations Squadron, its remotely piloted aircraft unit, to the Emerald Coast. The 2nd SOS, comprised of about 140 Air Force reservists formerly located at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., began RPA operations in its new facility at Hurlburt

  • Readiness Management Group inactivates

    Air Force Reserve Command's Readiness Management Group held its inactivation ceremony here July 1. The RMG was created in April 2005 to centrally manage individual mobilization augumentees. According to the AFRC commander at the time, now retired Lt. Gen. John A. Bradley, the goal of the

  • AF to every Airman: Tell us your story

    Air Force leaders want Airmen to share their stories with the world and designed the 2014 American Airman Video Contest with that purpose in mind."Every Airman has a story -- and smartphone technology now allows those Airmen to share those stories to a wider audience than ever before," said Air

  • KC-46A groundbreaking ceremony marks giant step forward for air refueling

    A new era in Air Force air-refueling capabilities took a giant step forward June 30. Shovels overturned the first piles of dirt during a groundbreaking ceremony for the new KC-46A Pegasus at McConnell Air Force Base. The ceremony symbolized significant progress in the KC-46A program and that

  • CMSAF Cody stresses service unity

    There is no distinction among Airmen within the Air Force components when it comes to how they perform their jobs, how they live up to standards and how they embrace the service's core values, said Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James Cody during a visit here June 24-25."Robins is a great

  • Grissom, Wright-Patt team up to tell AF Reserve story

    Since the Wright brothers first took to the sky, Ohio has been known as a state for aviation innovation, and in that spirit, two Air Force Reserve units found a creative way to showcase their missions to the world. The 434th Air Refueling Wing at Grissom partnered with the 445th Airlift Wing at

  • AF Reserve announces senior leader changes

    The Chief of Air Force Reserve announced the following senior Leader actions June 20.  Brigadier Gen. Udo K. McGregor is being reassigned from deputy director, Strategic Planning, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans and Programs, Headquarters United States Air Force, Washington, D.C., to vice