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AFRC News

  • C-130 crew chief inspires others to succeed in fitness

    Tech. Sgt. Vic Bejarano saw a disturbing trend in his shop -- co-workers and friends losing stripes and suffering the consequences for failing their fitness tests. Bejarano talked to his wife about what he saw as a growing problem and she told him to do something about it.So he did. Now, from 11:30

  • Air travel becomes easier for U.S. service members

    The Transportation Safety Administration is making air travel easier for military members and their families with new updates to their security procedures.The TSA program, called TSA Pre-Check, expedites screening procedures for active-duty, reserve and Coast Guard service members. Once verified as

  • Hill selected to receive first operational F-35A aircraft

    Hill Air Force Base was selected as the new home for the Air Force's first operational F-35A Lightning IIs.Air Force officials chose Hill AFB after a lengthy analysis of multiple locations' operational considerations, installation attributes, economic, and environmental factors."Hill AFB is ideally

  • Welsh: Budget Woes Force Cuts to Some Base Facilities

    In this time of sequestration, the Air Force must focus on its primary mission of being able to fight and win the nation's wars, Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, the Air Force chief of staff, said here yesterday.Family programs that support that mission will receive funding, but "nice-to-have" facilities

  • December issue of Citizen Airman available online

    The December issue of Citizen Airman, official magazine of the Air Force Reserve, is available at http://www.citamn.afrc.af.mil/. This month's cover story focuses on a civil engineer who escaped the civil war in his native country of Sierra Leone, came to the United States with his family and joined

  • Team Andrews fulfills 8-year-old's dream

    Team Andrews hosted its annual Pilot for a Day Program here Nov.22. Ne'Veah Littleton, 8-years-old, was diagnosed with stage four Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, a tumor on the brain stem. He was diagnosed in April 2013. The average survival of children diagnosed with DIPG is approximately nine

  • Alamo Wing Reservists return from Afghanistan deployment

    Senior Airman Barrett Cain III, 433rd Security Forces Squadron, is interviewed by Erin Nichols, a FOX 29 KABB-TV reporter at the San Antonio International Airport Nov. 22, after returning from a six-month deployment to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Cain was one of 11 Alamo Wing Airmen who returned

  • CY14A Air Force Reserve School Selection Board to convene

    The CY14A Air Force Reserve School Selection Board will convene Feb. 3, 2014 at the Air Reserve Personnel Center, Buckley Air Force Base, Colo. Both Invitation to Apply and RSSB Application can be found on myPers located under the red "News Alert" tab or on the vPC-GR Dashboard under the "Actions

  • AF Portal goes mobile, gets face-lift

     Expected to launch by the end of 2013, the Global Combat Support System-Air Force, or GCSS-AF, is rolling out a revamped portal, which simplifies navigation, improves performance on low bandwidth connections and works from mobile devices. "The old system had become cluttered, difficult to navigate