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  • Grissom families reunited after recent deployments

    After months away at several locations around the world, including Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Airmen from the 434th Air Refueling Wing were recently reunited with their families as they returned to Grissom in early November. Many of the families made posters as they waited for their loved ones to

  • Employer Partnership launches powerful job search tool on Veterans Day

    The Employer Partnership of the Armed Forces launched its new, state-of-the-art web portal on Veterans Day. The new tools offer Reserve Component personnel, their Family members, Wounded Warriors, and veterans increased capabilities when seeking employment opportunities. The portal also vastly

  • Band of AF Reserve performs holiday concert Dec. 9

    The Band of the U.S. Air Force Reserve will present its free annual holiday concert at the Museum of Aviation Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. "Throughout this past year, the band has entertained millions of people across the country as well as many of our deployed troops overseas," said Maj. Donald Schofield, band

  • Combat Camera Airmen learn battlefield forensics

    It was a first for the Air Force when a cadre of instructors from Six3 Systems, Inc. arrived at March to teach the Battlefield Forensics Course to 4th Combat Camera Squadron Airmen. In the past, the company, taught the course to only Army and Marine Corps units, but 4th Combat Squadron personnel

  • Veteran campaigns for remembrance

    While pundits all over the nation recently ended frenzied campaigns in races for political office, one man continues at a slow, but steady pace on his campaign for America. One that's taken years, which he hopes will never end.His campaign: remembrance."I came here to talk about what happened to me

  • Reserve units stand up force support squadrons

    In the coming months, reservists serving in mission support and services career fields will realign under force support squadrons in the Air Force Reserve Command.A mix of mission support and services units received authorization Oct. 15 to inactivate or change their unit designation. The result is

  • Holiday packages destined for AOR must be mailed earlier

    "Mail early" is the advice the U.S. Postal Service is offering to those sending holiday packages overeas. The deadlines for mailing holiday packages for arrival by Dec. 25 are: Nov. 26 for space-available mail; Dec. 3 for parcel airlift mail; Dec. 10 for priority mail and first-class mail,

  • Youngstown team wins AFRC Force Support Readiness Competition

    Members from the 910th Force Support Squadron Readiness Flight won first place in the 2010 Air Froce Reseve Command Force Support Readiness Competition here Nov. 1-4.FSS members competed against other Airmen from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., Duke Field, Fla., Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, and

  • Ludacris entertains troops at Ft Meade

    Three-time Grammy winner and multi-platinum rapper Ludacris thrilled a crowd of about 1,300 people at the Fort Meade Pavilion in Maryland on Nov. 6, 2010. The show was part of Air Force Reserve Command Recruiting Service's Stateside Tour for the Troops series of concerts and special events.Tour for

  • Chief of Staff recognizes chief of Air Force Week, hometown heroes

    The Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, recognized Air Force Reservist, Lt. Col. John Brodeur, director of Cocoa Beach Air Force Week 2010, among many, during a capstone senior leader dinner at the historic Cocoa Beach Pier, Oct. 30, 2010. With well over 35,000 Airmen currently