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  • Teen Leadership Summit

    Leadership summits offered to Guard & Reserve teens

    Teens with a parent in the Air Force Reserve or Air National Guard can sign up to attend a free leadership summit this summer. April 16 is the deadline to apply for the 2010 AFR/ANG Teen Leadership Summits. Participants must be 14 to 18 years old. Applications and instructions are available online at www.georgia4h.org/AFRANGTeenSummit. To attend
  • Major Robert Baird an Air Force Reservist from the 507th Air Refeuling Wing recently received a lifesaving award from actions performed in his civilian job as a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma police officer. The major is shown here in a May 2009 file photo presenting a speech to a Broken Arrow elementary classroom on his military experiences.

    Police officer saves life in line of duty

    An Air Force reservist working in the Broken Arrow (Okla.) Police Department received an award Jan. 14 for saving a person's life.In addition to being a police officer, Maj. Robert Baird is a logistics officer with the 507th Air Refueling Wing's Logistics Readiness Squadron here. While on patrol Dec. 30, 2009, he responded to an emergency call from
  • Afghan nationals have their photo taken by Staff Sgt. Christine Jones 4th Combat Camera Squadron, Shabila Kalan Village, Zabul Province, Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez )

    Photographers fulfill new tasking on deployment

    The calls came Easter Sunday. The 4th Combat Camera Squadron at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., received a tasking to send a team to Afghanistan. Although the team received advanced notice, the phone calls removed all doubt the squadron would soon have still photographers and videographers in southern Afghanistan.The team's mission was a first for
  • (from left) Master Sgt. Phillip Hartzell, Nancy Driscoll, Edward Crisostomo and Joel Swanson discuss a radiological detection device during a break in the presentation Swanson recently was giving on base. Swanson is a contractor response coordinator for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Region 7, which includes all of California. March ARB first and emergency responders attended the session, which promoted interagency cooperation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Megan Just)

    Department of Energy shares nuclear expertise

    The flash from an initial nuclear weapon explosion is so bright that people looking at it within a 5-mile radius could go permanently blind if their blinking reflex took longer than a quarter of a second.This scenario and others were topics of discussion here Jan. 28 during a U.S. Department of Energy outreach session.A team from the department was

  • Command responds to Super Bowl ad allegation

    The Air Force Reserve Command released a statement Tuesday, following allegations from a recording artist claiming their song was used illegally in a Super Bowl Sunday regional TV advertisement. Recording artists, The White Stripes, posted a statement on their official website claiming the Air Force Reserve Command used, "without permission," a
  • Special Group Captain (Brig Gen equivalent) Thawonwat Chantanagama, Deputy Director, Director of Operations, Royal Thai Air Force (left in blue), Lt. Col. Corey L. Steinbrink and Lt. Col. James M. Steward, with the Air Force Reserve’s 302nd Airlift Wing present Modular Airborne Firefighting System training certificates. More than 50 members of the RTAF attended the 302 AW-led training to increase their proficiency with the MAFFS system. Seven 302 AW members traveled to Thailand to provide expert training on safe and effective C-130 MAFFS operations. This event marks the first time the Air Force Reserve has sent delegates to train a foreign Air Force on use of the MAFFS equipment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Jody L. Ritchie)

    Reservists honeThailand's aerial firefighting skills

  • After boarding a C-17 Globemaster III in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 29, a young girl waits patiently to use the lavatory. Behind her, two crew members from the 729th Airlift Squadron, prepare to fly the load of 176 passengers to Orlando Sanford International Airport. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Capt. Ashley Norris)

    March C-17 crew completes mission to Haiti

    A C-17 crew from here returned home Feb. 1 after flying a 5-day humanitarian mission to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The nine-member crew from the 729th Airlift Squadron took 171,400 pounds of cargo and 25 Army and Air Force service members into Haiti and airlifted 263 evacuees and aid workers out in a C-17 Globemaster III. March has sent six missions
  • Master Sgt. Richard Biasi, 512th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, marshals a C-5M Super Galaxy moments before a historical take off. A Team Dover aircrew onboard "The Spirit of Normandy," unofficially set 41 records in a single flight Sept. 13. The certified results are expected to be released in about a month. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jason Minto)

    C-5M Super Galaxy officially sets 41 world records

    A Dover C-5M Super Galaxy went into the world record books Jan. 19 when the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale certified 41 records set during a Sept. 13, 2009, flight.The U.S. National Aeronautic Association approved the U.S. records Oct. 30 before submitting them to the FAI, a Swiss-based world air-sports organization with more than 100

  • Team Dover flies first C-5M to Iraq

    As the Dover aircraft landed at the runway in Iraq, delivering over 85,000 pounds of equipment for troops downrange, it may have seemed like any other mission. This, however, was the first C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft to fly into Iraq.Dover's three C-5M aircraft have completed the operational testing phase and are about to enter the conversion phase.
  • Staff Sgt. Gina Cerquozzi, 35th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron avionics technician, assigned from the 302nd Airlift Wing, Peterson AFB, Colo., communicates with another maintenance technician on a Coronet Oak C-130 aircraft while troubleshooting an auxiliary fuel tank indicator problem. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Stan Coleman)

    Air Reserve Component aircrew, maintainers tackle Haiti relief effort

    Aircrew and maintenance Airmen representing the Air Reserve Component are tackling the Haitian relief effort as part of their Coronet Oak rotational deployment.Coronet Oak is the U.S. Southern Command's airlift mission that provides humanitarian aid to the Central and South American theater of operations as well as islands located in the Caribbean
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