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  • Air Force Reserve Command chief visits Hawaii, Guam reservists

    The command chief master sergeant for Air Force Reserve Command visited 624th Regional Support Group in June to learn about the challenges facing reservists in the Pacific.Chief Master Sgt. Dwight Badgett's trip took place in conjunction with back-to-back unit training assemblies in Hawaii and Guam.

  • Hurricane Hunters show Alex strengthen into Category 2 storm before landfall

    Hours before an aircrew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron left for an after-midnight flight into Hurricane Alex, the storm had just been upgraded from a tropical storm to a hurricane. By the time the crew returned from more than seven hours inside the storm, the data they gathered showed

  • Seminars help officers complete military education

    Air Force Reserve majors and lieutenant colonels come here in June to start or complete their Air Command and Staff College or Air War College distance learning professional military education.They attend Air Reserve Component Seminars, which focus on helping Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard

  • Youngstown hosts German military reserve officers

    Two German air force reserve officers visited here in June to exchange ideas and experiences with their U.S. Air Force Reserve counterparts in the 910th Airlift Wing. Lt. Col. Stefan Bernreider and Lt. Col. Patrick Hofmann toured Youngstown Air Reserve Station June 12-26 as part of the Department of

  • Tinker reservists to participate in Navy fleet exercise

    Four 507th Air Refueling Wing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft and more than 180 Air Force reservists will join forces with the U.S. Navy during July to support a U.S. Pacific Fleet exercise.The exercise, called RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific), is a series of multinational maritime exercises scheduled to

  • ARPC hosts interservice Reserve conference

    Nearly 100 officials from the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard gathered at the Doubletree Hotel in Denver for the Individual Ready Reserve Interservice Conference June 22 and 23.ARPC hosted the annual event which allows representatives from all the services to discuss current

  • Participants gather at Reserve Personnel Center for annual muster

    More than 170 men and women gathered at the Air Reserve Personnel Center here as part of the Individual Ready Reserve muster program June 18.The program is mandated by law and requires the Air Force to connect with Airmen who have served and still have a military service obligation but are no longer

  • IMA program to grow by 400 by September

    With 400 new funded billets and recent attrition rates in Fiscal Year 2010, the Air Force Reserve Individual Mobilization Augmentee Program is looking to hire 1,600 people by September. "We're hiring and that is terrific news on several fronts," said Col. Nancy Zbyszinski, commander, Readiness

  • Former wing commander immortalized in Italian skies

    Although he is now retired, former 917th Wing Commander Brig. Gen. Jack Ihle's name can still be seen on an A-10 Thunderbolt flying in the skies over Europe. The names of General Ihle, Master Sgt. Erick Munson and Tech. Sgt. Alex Wilkins adorn the fuselage of a remote-controlled aircraft constructed

  • Reflections on the water: Outward Bound veteran expeditions

    Some cultures believe rivers have healing powers; that people can pour out their grief into the river and leave their sorrows behind.In a land where horses run free and osprey rule the sky, there's a river that runs south to north surrounded by a breathtaking landscape full of basalt rock