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AFRC News

  • 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

  • D-Day vets, fallen forces remembered by French, allied nations

    Military forces from several allied nations joined with the people of this French town June 5, to commemorate the 68th Anniversary of the Normandy D-Day invasion.Led by Army Maj. Gen. Jeffrey A. Jacobs and Air Force Maj. Gen. Wallace "Wade" Farris, Jr., U.S. and allied service members paid their

  • Rescue Airmen return from Horn of Africa deployment

    Approximately 60 Reserve Airman from the 920th Rescue Wing here returned home June 4th from a deployment that took them to the Horn of Africa in support of ongoing search-and-rescue, and humanitarian relief efforts there. Airman deployed in support of the Combined-Joint-Task-Force-Horn of Africa

  • Reserve reaches milestone in IR deployment processing

    The Readiness Management Group here and the 94th Airlift Wing at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., achieved a milestone in Individual Reserve deployment processing May 24. Lt. Col. Kim Devoto was the first individual reservist to return from a deployment through the Centralized Deployment Processing

  • Policy changing to allow reservists to carry leave balance

    Air Force Reserve officials are working to change policy to allow reservists who earn days of leave to carry those days over from year to year.New laws and Department of Defense instructions permit reservists to carry over the leave days. However, policy and procedures have not caught up with the

  • June issue of Citizen Airman now available

    The June issue of Citizen Airman magazine is now available. The issue salutes Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., Air Force Reserve Command commander and chief of Air Force Reserve, as he prepares to retire. The June issue also includes stories about new heavy equipment simulators being used at Dobbins

  • Citizen Airmen, employers to get awards

    The Air Force will honor two reservists and their civilian employers in September at the Air Force Association Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition in Washington, D.C..Air Force Reserve Command picked Lt. Col. Robert J. Sweet, 476th Fighter Group, Moody AFB, Ga., and Southwest Airlines