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AFRC News

  • 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

  • SecAF: Total force readiness has atrophied

    While elements of the Air Force are always prepared to meet the country's readiness needs, total force readiness has deteriorated, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told the Defense Writers Group here June 18.Nearing the six-month mark of her term as the Air Force's top official, James touched

  • Reserve KC-10 tanker aircrew trains with RAF fighter pilots

    A KC-10A aircrew from the 78th Air Refueling Squadron here refueled several Royal Air Force Typhoon GR4Fs over the North Sea June 6 during an infrequent air refueling training mission. The Typhoons were from the RAF 6 and 1(F) Squadrons, RAF Leuchars, United Kingdom.  The training is vitally