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AFRC News

  • Whiteman Reserve leaders applaud Yellow Ribbon training

    Reservists from the 442nd Fighter Wing, an A-10 Thunderbolt unit in Missouri, attended Air Force Reserve Yellow Ribbon Program training events prior to their mass deployment to Afghanistan this spring."I knew it was a good program and it's even better than I expected," said Col. Hubert C. Hegtvedt,

  • Air Force Reserve kicks off Patriot Warrior at Grissom

    While most maps place Grissom in the heart of the Hoosier state, to more than 500 Air Force reservists from around the United States, it is now located in a foreign nation and has become the tip of the spear for ongoing wartime operations. While scenario may be fictitious, the work being

  • SecAF, AFRC commander visit Westover

    The Patriot Wing hosted Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James and Lt. Gen. James Jackson, Chief of Air Force Reserve, May 2.The Air Force selected Westover as one of several bases Secratary James visited in the northeastern United States to gain a better understanding of the Total Force

  • Air Force secretary reports on total force balance

    Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James outlined April 30 the service's progress in leveraging the talent and capabilities of the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve within the total force concept.James, along with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, testified at a Senate Armed

  • Reserve units support civilian agencies during Patriot Hook Exercise

    The 433rd Airlift Wing's C-5A Galaxy was the first on the scene in support of the Air Force Reserve Command's Patriot Hook Exercise 2014, April 23-28 at Naval Air Station North Island, Calif. Patriot Hook is an annual AFRC-sponsored exercise that integrates federal agencies with the military, while

  • Westover to lose aircraft, personnel

    Air Force officials announced Monday that half of the 439th Airlift Wing's C-5 fleet - and more than 300 jobs here - will be cut as a result of Pentagon budget cuts and sequestration.While the host unit 439th AW flies 16 C-5B models, eight C-5s will transfer from Westover to Joint Base San

  • McChord reservist sings during Mariners' Salute to Service game

    A baseball tradition was thrown a curve ball during a recent Seattle Mariners game when a 446th Airlift Wing Reservist replaced "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" with "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch.On April 26, members of the U.S. military combined forces with America's pastime

  • Hill fighter wings prep to receive F-35A

    The 419th Fighter Wing annual training here is providing reservists and their active-duty counterparts in the 388th FW with immersion training on the Air Force's newest fighter jet, the F-35A Lightning II. Airmen from Hill's fighter wings, including pilots, maintainers, logisticians, and support

  • Hill's F-16s take first flights alongside F-35s

    F-16 pilots from Hill's 419th and 388th Fighter Wings took to the skies here this morning for their first training missions alongside the F-35A Lightning II, the Air Force's newest fighter aircraft. Hill's F-16s flew air-to-air combat training missions with F-35As assigned to Eglin's 33rd Fighter

  • Altus, McConnell AFBs selected to receive KC-46A Pegasus aircraft

    Air Force officials announced April 23, that Altus Air Force Base, Okla., is the Air Force's KC-46A Pegasus formal training unit and McConnell AFB, Kan., is the first active duty-led Pegasus main operating base."The KC-46A Pegasus aerial tanker remains one of our top three acquisition priorities,"