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AFRC News

  • Jiu Jitsu instructor teaches reservists, families basics of self-defense

    One out of every six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime, according to the Rape Crisis Center.Chief Master Sgt. Sheila Richard is one of those statistics. She was sexually assaulted when she was 19 years old. "I knew the experience was going to make

  • DOD officials order disability board results review

    Some Airmen who met a medical or physical disability evaluation board between Sept. 11, 2001 and April 30, 2012 prior to separating from the Air Force may be eligible for re-evaluation, Air Force Personnel Center officials said.When defense officials learned some diagnoses had been changed during

  • Nellis Reserve unit gains new RPA squadron

    A new Remotely Piloted Aircraft squadron activated during a ceremony at the Holloman Desert Sands Club here, Nov. 19.The 429th Air Combat Training Squadron stood up as a geographically-separated unit under the 926th Group, which is headquartered at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev."Gaining the 429th ACTS

  • Rescue Wing Airmen support SpaceX rocket launch

    Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully launched its first commercial Falcon 9 rocket into orbit at 5:41 p.m. Eastern Time Dec. 4, as Airmen and HH-60G Pave Hawks from the 920th Rescue Wing safeguarded the hazard zone.This mission was the first commercial flight from the Cape Canaveral

  • 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