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AFRC News

  • 'Arctic Reservists' celebrate 3rd year with Bald Eagle release

    The 477th Fighter Group "Arctic Reservists" showed they were ready to take flight as a relatively new unit during their annual picnic Aug. 15, by releasing an American Bald Eagle back into the wild. The release is symbolic of the unit's growth since its stand-up in 2007, said Col. Eric Overturf,

  • World War II vet flies with old unit 65 years later

    When crew chief Sgt. Charles Bullard jumped out of a C-47 in September 1945, he and many of his war buddies were grateful to be back in "the good old U.S. of A."Mr. Bullard was 18 when he enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941. He went to school to learn how to maintain the latest military

  • Reserve pilot pulls double duty during Red Flag

    Pilots flying sorties during Red Flag-Alaska can expect long days filled with mission planning, preflight briefings and post-flight briefings.Maj. Chad Feucht, 302nd Fighter Squadron F-22 pilot, is fulfilling his Air Force Reserve Command flying commitment during the realistic 10-day air combat

  • Dover Reserve aircrew supports Canadian's Operation Boxtop

    The Air Force Reserve's 326th Airlift Squadron put another "pin" on the map due to its recent support of Canadian Operation Boxtop.The aircrew's mission was to deliver a Halverson 25K-loader to Thule Air Base, Greenland, for transport to a Canadian air base referred to as Canadian Forces Station

  • Luke reservist among Air Force's 12 Outstanding Airmen for 2010

    An Air Force reservist from Luke AFB, Ariz., is one the Air Force's 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2010.Tech. Sgt. Stephen R. Hunter Jr. is an explosive ordnance disposal technician with Luke's 944th Civil Engineer Squadron.According to his award nomination, Sergeant Hunter took part in 107

  • Reserve commanders get a look at Lean

    Twenty-eight commanders from 10th Air Force participated in a two-day seminar on the Lean system, a managerial process designed to help identify waste, at Homestead Air Reserve Base and Miami Children's Hospital,  Aug. 10-11. The seminar topic was on point with where the U.S. military is headed; by

  • No clowning around; family care is important

    The base passenger terminal here looked different Aug. 8.The men and women in military uniform fit right in. However, the children wearing face paint, parents socializing over cake and jovial clowns blowing up balloons kind of stood out during a gathering of family and friends of deployed members of

  • Plan affects Reserve fighter units in 3 states

    If approved, Air Force Reserve Command units in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah will change missions under an Air Force fighter transition plan announced in July.All of the affected units are classic associate units that provide reservists to fly and maintain Regular Air Force aircraft and equipment.

  • Optometrists focus on need in Africa

    Stepahno Shivanbe doesn't know much English, but he knows enough to say, "Thank you. Thank you very much." That's what he kept repeating as he walked out of the examination room, an olive-drab shipping container marked "Optometry." The elderly man was one of the first patients treated at the

  • McChord reservists begin Operation Deep Freeze missions

    Reservists with the 446th Airlift Wing here are now performing WINFLY, the first phase of the annual Operation Deep Freeze missions in support of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic program. During WINFLY, which is scheduled to end Aug. 29, crews are busy shuttling advance teams and cargo