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AFRC News

  • March wing, Travis aircrew haul in awards

    The Air Force Reserve Command announced two 2013 Air Force Association awards May 9. The 452nd Air Mobility Wing, March Air Reserve Base, California; and the aircrew of Lt. Col. Todd Hegy, 312th Airlift Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, California, won AFRC Outstanding Reserve Flying Wing Unit Award

  • Creech RPA unit garners aviation award for excellence

    The 91st Attack Squadron received Air Force Reserve Command's 2013 Grover Loening Trophy, a trophy presented annually to the all-around outstanding aviation program in the nation excluding combat rescue and special operations.The trophy is the rarest and oldest of all aviation awards and 2013 marks

  • NOAA, Hurricane Hunters team up for awareness tour

    An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircrew with their WC-130J aircraft and a team of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hurricane forecasters visited three Mexican and two Caribbean cities May 4-11 as part of the annual Caribbean Hurricane Awareness Tour. The CHAT, a joint effort

  • President travels to Arkansas to view tornado damage

    President Barack Obama landed here on Air Force One, May 6, to tour the local communities damaged by a tornado April 27.In his first visit to the state as president, Obama met with victims, local officials and emergency personnel."When something happens like this to a community, it happens to all of

  • Alaska Air Force Reserve F-22 unit flies milestone sortie

    F-22 pilots from the 477th Fighter Group, Alaska's only Air Force Reserve unit, made history during the Unit Training Assembly weekend May 3. With a combined total of 4,000 flight hours, Col. David Piffarerio, Majs. Jonathan Gration, Ryan Pelkola and Chad Newkirk flew the most experienced four-ship

  • Texas reservists first in to support Patriot Warrior

    Approximately 30 Air Force Reservists from the 433rd Civil Engineer Squadron here deployed to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, to launch Exercise Patriot Warrior 2014, April 26 - May 8. "This is a premier event for training, not an exercise or inspection" said Ralph Browning, an Air Force Reserve Command fire

  • 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