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AFRC News

  • Command selects outstanding airmen, first sergeant

    An airman and three senior NCOs will represent Air Force Reserve Command in the Air Force's 2012 Outstanding Airmen of the Year and First Sergeant of the Year competitions later this year.AFRC's nominees to the Air Force competitions are:First sergeant - Senior Master Sgt. Daniel J. Anthony, 302nd

  • Reserve component leaders discuss FY14 budget

    The top leaders from the U.S. military's reserve components went on Capitol Hill April 17 to provide statements and answer questions about their fiscal 2014 budget proposals.Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), chairwoman of the full U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations; Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),

  • Purple, the color of sacrifice

    Schools throughout Houston County, Ga., joined a nationwide movement to "Purple Up" on April 15. Matt Arthur Elementary School students, faculty and staff were one of many schools in the United States wearing purple to recognize April as the Month of the Military Child. "The military is a very

  • Air Force reserve instructor pilot killed in vehicle accident

    An Air Force reserve instructor pilot was killed along with his wife and two daughters near San Antonio, Texas, April 13.Lt. Col. Kenneth Koontz, a civilian simulator instructor and member of the 96th Flying Training Squadron was killed in a traffic accident on U.S. Route 90."Lt. Col. Kenneth

  • Air Force Reserve celebrates 65 years of historic service

    President Harry S. Truman signed legislation on April 14, 1948, establishing the modern-day Air Force Reserve. The new organization reaffirmed the "Citizen Airmen" concept that reaches back to the Army Air Service reservists of the First World War. This came seven months after Truman established the

  • Reserve Red Horse unit has happy homecoming at Charleston

    Hundreds of family members and friends waited anxiously in a packed Joint Base Charleston Passenger Terminal for a 747 charter jet carrying nearly 100 Airmen from 560th Red Horse Squadron returning from a six-month deployment  April 11.The Air Force Reservists have been deployed as part of the the

  • Air Force restarts tuition assistance

    The Air Force has officially restarted military tuition assistance, effective immediately. The service restarted the program as a result of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013, where Congress called for the MTA program to continue in the current fiscal year. As a

  • Robins reserve combat comm unit supports African Lion exercise

    Fourteen members of Air Force Reserve Command's 55th Combat Communications Squadron here are in Morocco providing critical communications support for African Lion 2013, an annually scheduled, bilateral U.S. and Moroccan sponsored exercise designed to improve interoperability and mutual understanding

  • Air Combat Command stands down units due to budget cuts

    The United States Air Force will begin to stand down active duty combat units starting today to ensure the remaining units supporting worldwide operations can maintain sufficient readiness through the remainder of the fiscal year.The stand down is the result of cuts to the command's operations and

  • Reservists asked to participate in Community Assessment Survey

    The 2013 Air Force Community Assessment Survey launched April 5, and all members of the Air Force Reserve team who are asked to participate are encouraged to do so.The assessment is designed to assist chaplains and people working in installation-level Airman and family readiness centers, family