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AFRC News

  • Awards recognize employers, reservists

    March 15 is the deadline for reservists to nominate themselves and their employer for Air Force Reserve Command's Citizen Airman Award and Employer of the Year Award.The awards recognize both an enlisted person and an officer who deployed in support of current operations in 2010. The employer award

  • Airman sheds more than 120 pounds to join Air Force Reserve

    She hated looking at herself in the mirror.While many complimented her sweet nature and beautiful smile, Santana Austin didn't feel pretty. As a child, she'd always struggled with her weight, but by the time she was 17, she was wearing a size 24 pants. Slowed down by the extra weight she carried on

  • VA announces changes to post 9/11 GI Bill

    Airmen enrolled in the Post-9/11 GI Bill will have more opportunities and means of using their educational benefits.President Barack Obama signed legislation to update and simplify the program, Jan. 4.According to the Veterans Administration, the agency that administers the program, the new

  • Hurricane Hunters switch gears to fly winter storms missions

    The Hurricane Hunters are in full swing with winter storm missions in Anchorage, Alaska. The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron has had little down time because of overlapping obligations, flying winter storm missions in November while still performing hurricane flights through Dec. 1, the

  • Deployment blessing

    While Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station C-130's were being de-iced and loaded with supplies 914th Airlift Wing Chaplain (Capt.) James Bastian blesses aircraft on the flightline. Chaplain Bastion blesses the aircraft and crew before they begin their mission delivering supplies to an undisclosed

  • Yellow Ribbon Lite accelerates deployment preparation

    The 310th Space Wing Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program hosted a first of its kind Yellow Ribbon Lite event at Buckley Air Force Base, Colo., on Dec. 29.The event, a spinoff of the weekend-long Yellow Ribbon event, addressed a last-minute need to prepare members of the 710th Security Forces

  • Gates Reveals Budget Efficiencies, Reinvestment Possibilities

    The Defense Department has found $154 billion in efficiencies over the next five years and will be able to invest $70 billion of that saved money in more deserving accounts, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today.The secretary announced the savings and reinvesting of the efficiencies during a

  • Niagara Reservists prepare to deploy

    Airmen of the 914th Airlift Wing have begun the deployment process from the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, Niagara Falls, NY to undisclosed location in southwest Asia. Members from the Operations, Maintenance and Logistics groups will be departing from the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station over

  • Reservists load humanitarian aid for Nicaragua

    A C-17 Globemaster III from the Air Force Reserve's 315th Airlift Wing, Charleston, S.C., landed here today to load humanitarian aid headed for Managua, Nicaragua.A 1984 E-One fire truck along with nearly 3.5 tons of medical supplies and firefighting equipment donated by Emergency Response Services

  • Air Force rescuers pull female hiker to safety

    From day until night, Senior Master Sgt. Mike Flake, a flight engineer on an Air Force rescue helicopter (HH-60G Pave Hawk), had been flying a training mission Dec. 22 around Tucson, Ariz. where his unit, the 305th Rescue Squadron here, trains regularly. Upon clocking out, he was home by 9:30 p.m.