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AFRC News

  • ARPC announces Reserve School Selection Board results

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials here announced selection results from the semi-annual CY14A Reserve School Selection Board. The selection board convened at the center Feb. 3-7 to match selected members to their respective schools based upon the needs of the Air Force Reserve followed by

  • Only reserve AWACS unit to inactivate if FY15 DOD budget approved

    The 513th Air Control Group, the only reserve unit that performs the Airborne Warning and Control System mission, is slated to inactivate if the fiscal 2015 Department of Defense budget is enacted into law.Air Force Reserve Command's 513th ACG is currently partnered with the active duty 552nd Air

  • Pope Field FTU final hurdle for Reserve medics

    "I like to bring the game to the patient so that's what we'll do," Maj. Laurel Minard said as she began her pre-mission brief. "Patients don't deserve our sympathy, they deserve our skill."Minard, a nurse with the 349th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., was beginning

  • Command media contest results announced

    Three offices and 26 individuals earned first-place awards in the 2013 Air Force Reserve Command Media Contest.The top entries were announced March 11 by Lt. Gen. James F. Jackson, AFRC commander. The public affairs competition featured 317 Web, print, graphic, still photo and broadcasting entries

  • Defense budget proposal affects Air Force Reserve units

    The Department of Defense budget request for fiscal 2015 includes a number of proposed changes for the Air Force Reserve.If enacted into law, the DOD budget request would increase the number of Reserve fighter wings equipped with F-16 fighters, create a classic associate B-1 bomber group, increase

  • Pope Airmen train with Atlas troops to recover aircraft

    82nd Combat Aviation Brigade troops hosted joint Downed Aircraft Recovery Team and Crash Damaged Disabled Aircraft Recovery training with Airmen from Pope Army Airfield at Simmons Army Airfield, Feb. 24.DART and CDDAR teams are responsible for recovering aircraft after they crash or become disabled

  • Climate limits C-17 support of Operation Deep Freeze this season

    Severe melt issues at Pegasus Airfield's white ice runway left little choice other than to cancel most of the planned C-17 missions supporting Operation Deep Freeze in the 2013-2014 season.A little more than 1,200 feet of the approach end of the primary 10,000-foot-long white ice runway had turned

  • ARPC marks 60 years, showcases progress

    More than 150 people attended the Air Reserve Personnel Center's exhibition of history as the center commemorated its 60th anniversary here Feb. 28. The event was open to all current and former ARPC employees, Buckley Air Force Base leadership and community partners. They were treated to a briefing

  • AF finalizing details for two officer force management programs

    Details for implementation of two fiscal 2014 officer force management programs announced in December are being finalized to allow Air Force officials to release eligibility criteria, Air Force Personnel Center officials said today.Details regarding the reduction in force board, coupled with

  • Opportunities, challenges abound on mobile horizon, CIO says

    The Pentagon's chief information officer today discussed the vast opportunities mobile computing provides and its critical role in improving support for the Defense Department's 600,000 mobile device users.During the 4th annual MobileGov Summit at the Newseum here, Teresa M. Takai said operational