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AFRC News

  • Joint mass casualty exercise tests Fort Worth personnel

    Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, Navy and Civil Air Patrol personnel conducted a joint mass casualty exercise here June 23.  "The goal is to facilitate learning in a joint effort as well as individual training requirements so that we could actually answer and work a mass casualty," said Maj.

  • Reserve C-130s respond to Lime Gulch fire

    Two Air Force Reserve Command C-130s equipped with U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems responded to the Lime Gulch fire in southern Jefferson County, Colo. June 19.The U.S. Forest Service-generated launch order was received shortly after 2 p.m. by the AF Reserve aircrews who

  • Reserve aerial spray unit swats 'skeeters' at JB Charleston

    "There must be thousands of 'em, millions of 'em. What are they doing?""It looks like they're preparing an invasion."Even though this dialogue is from the 1996 science fiction blockbuster film, "Independence Day," it is an accurate description of the annual real-life assault from saltwater marsh

  • Total force trifecta pulls off tanker-fighter mission

    Members of the 459th Air Refueling Wing here got first-hand experience working within the total force trifecta of active duty, Guard and Reserve during an overseas mission June 7-12. Two pilots, three maintainers and a boom operator from the Air Force Reserve's 459th ARW traveled to Estonia to

  • Program fights mosquitoes, trains Airmen

    Air Force Reserve Command is expanding its Innovative Readiness Training program this summer to help communities control mosquitoes.C-130H aircrews will spray Williston and Minot in North Dakota June 30-July 3 and York County and the City of Poquoson in Virginia July 22-26. These communities are

  • Reserve rescue group saves off-duty Soldier hiking in difficult terrain

    The Citizen Airmen of the 943rd Rescue Group were called into action June 15 for a late-night rescue of an injured off-duty Soldier who fell from a cliff while hiking in the Huachuca Mountains near Sierra Vista, Ariz. The survivor was clinging onto a two-foot wide ledge with a possible broken leg

  • Anatomy of a hurricane hunter: When storms get personal

    During Maj. Sean Cross' first flight into what became Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, he and his WC-130J Hercules crew joked and asked themselves why they were even tasked for the mission. "There was absolutely nothing to it at that point," he said.By his second flight, the jokes stopped and were

  • Tropicare 13 wraps up readiness training in Hawaii

    Communities across Hawaii are bidding aloha to more than 500 Guard and Reserve members as Tropicare 13, a medical Innovative Readiness Training event, draws to a close this week on the islands of Lanai, Maui, Molokai and Hawaii.Reserve component medical personnel from the Air Force, Navy, Army and

  • Pope Field getting 'green' control tower

    Construction crews on are busy putting finishing touches on the new $8 million air traffic control tower overlooking the flightline here. "The new 135-foot 11-story structure brings a host of capabilities to Fort Bragg that the long-standing 1970s-era tower had grown too outmoded to provide," said

  • Comptroller offers glimpse of post-sequester options

    The budget storms assailing the Pentagon are unprecedented, the Defense Department's chief financial officer said in Washington June 13."I've never seen anything like this," Pentagon Comptroller Robert F. Hale told an audience attending the 2013 Defense Communities National Summit, "and I hope we