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  • Colorado Reserve unit called in to fight wildland fires

    The Air Force Reserve Command's 302nd Airlift Wing here received word June 24 that it was tasked to provide Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, or MAFFS, support to the ongoing Colorado wildland fires. The request for assistance from The National Interagency Fire Center to the Department of

  • Trumpeter's first gig is band's last Independence Day concert

    By 30, many people have already set their course in life and know what they want to do. Airman 1st Class Mark Oates is not one of them.  He was 34 when he decided to join the Band of the U.S. Air Force Reserve."I might just be the oldest A1C in the Air Force," he said.Oates spent seven years working

  • Barksdale Total Force package produces weapons graduates

    Active duty and Reserve Airman, B-52 aircrews and maintainers from here combined to form a Total Force Enterprise package for a mission employment exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., June 4-15, 2012.The exercise was the final training phase of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School and capstone

  • Second day of Port Dawg gets physical

    The Air Force Reserve Command's bi-annual air mobility competition took a decidedly more physical turn on the second day of the three-day contest that ends June 21.Competitors from across the nation in the Port Dawg Challenge are locked in a battle to determine the best aerial port team in the Air

  • Port Dawg Challenge unleashed at Dobbins

    The Air Force Reserve's biannual air mobility logistics competition kicked off June 19 at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., pitting 19 Aerial Port Squadrons from 17 states in a battle to determine who's the best "Port Dawg."Six-person teams from installations across the nation - including Hickam Air

  • Rescue unit honors Florida judge with flag

    Six months ago in Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Brandon Forshaw scrambled across enemy territory to rescue a Marine who had been shot in the leg.On June 13, a U.S. flag flown in recognition of that rescue ended up in a Florida judicial court. Col. Robert Ament, 920th Rescue Wing vice commander here,

  • Robins Reservist gets extra role in baseball legend movie

    June 8 was a day to remember for Scotty Brown. The former high school baseball player and current Air Force reservist spent the day running through baseball drills on an old diamond near historic Luther Williams Field in Macon, Ga., while the motion picture cameras rolled.Brown was selected as an

  • Rescue Group Airmen return from Afghanistan deployment

    More than 70 Reserve Airmen from the 943rd Rescue Group returned home June 9 through the 19th after a four month deployment at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan providing medical evacuation capabilities in Afghanistan's Regional Command Southwest. While deployed, the rescue group flew 314 missions that

  • Ride like you're invisible

    Lt. Col. Clinton Burpo was in trouble.Just moments earlier he had been midway through his commute to work, riding his bicycle along the same route he did every morning.Without warning, something slammed into him from the side, knocking him off his bike and onto the pavement. He suddenly found

  • Smiles reward medics on humanitarian tour

    Forty-seven Citizen Airmen from the Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard put smiles on the faces of more than 10,000 patients in this island nation in May.The Airmen worked up to 15 hours a day for two weeks to provide non-stop medical, dental and optical care during the Medical