Senior NCO finds reward in helping fuels community

An Air Force veteran with more than 20 years service is Air Force Reserve Command's Senior NCO of the Year and was the command's nominee in that category in the Air Force 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year competition.Senior Master Sgt. Steven C. George is assigned to Headquarters AFRC's Logistics

Heavy lift for a heavy lifter

The Marines got some needed heavy lift capability July 14 from an Air Force Reserve unit that specializes in transporting outsized cargo. A C-5B crew from the 439th Airlift Wing, Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass., delivered two Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters to the Marine Heavy Lift

MAFFS aircraft, crews conclude firefighting operations in Southwest

After performing 242 sorties and dropping 609,960 gallons of fire retardant over the wildfires that have been burning in New Mexico and Arizona, Air Reserve Component personnel and their Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped aircraft concluded their mission on July 13.The National

Reserve, community welcome C-17 mission to Wright-Patterson

Balancing Reserve force discussed at Commander and Spouse Forum

Air Force Reserve wing commanders and their spouses attended the annual Air Force Reserve Commander and Spouse forum here July 6-8 to gain increased awareness of the needs of Citizen Airmen and their families.Attendees engaged with Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner Jr., chief of Air Force Reserve and

Employers get a glimpse of Youngstown mission

The engines of a C-130 Hercules roaring to life, fire arms blazing as terrorists attack and take hostages, and flames shooting into the blue sky and engulfing the hulk of a Hercules during a mock training scenario. These were just a few of the sights and sounds that approximately 60 civilian

Reserve C-130s continue aerial firefighting efforts in Southwest

Air Force Reserve personnel and two Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System equipped C-130s continue to assist the U.S. Forest Service in fighting wildfires in New Mexico and Arizona.Since being activated by the National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho on June 15, the 302nd Air Expeditionary Group

On target

94th Security Forces Combat Arms Training and Maintenance instructors conduct M-4 carbine training during the July 9 unit training assembly. Students -- other members ofthe 94th Security Forces Squadron -- spent several hours in the classroom and then went to the range to qualify. 

Pope reservists to join 9/11 Ruck March to Remember

The 440th Airlift Wing Security Forces Squadron is joining forces with 14 other Air Force Security Forces Squadrons and participating in the 9/11 Ruck March to Remember. In relay fashion, southern and eastern seaboard state Air Force Squadrons will march from Lackland AFB near San Antonio, Texas to

Air Force Reservists serve as astronauts' Guardian Angels for one final launch

Despite threatening weather, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off Launch Pad 39A at 11:29 a.m. at Kennedy Space Center and disappeared into the clouds over Florida's east coast for the last time July 8, marking the end of an era for NASA, the space shuttle program, and the 920th Rescue Wing's astronaut