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  • 927th ASTS arrives at Patriot Warrior 2018

    Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 927th Aeromedical Staging Squadron arrived at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Aug. 8, for the 2018 Patriot Warrior Exercise, an annual exercise geared toward enhancing the capabilities of Reserve Citizen Airmen by providing them with training to ensure all are deployment

  • Weekend-duty: Total Force Integration more than a buzz phrase at Offutt

    Innovation, which increases readiness, reduces costs, returns time back to Airmen and increases lethality, doesn’t have to involve software upgrades, new weapon systems or a rewrite of a regulation. Members of Team Offutt recently proved this when, for the first time, a RC-135V/W Rivet Joint flew a

  • Galaxy wraps upgrades to become C-5M Super Galaxy

    The first flight of the Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy Transport aircraft took place on June 30, 1968, with an audience which included President Lyndon Johnson. It’s now 50 years later, and the Super Galaxy is still going strong.Today, the Air Force and Lockheed Martin have finished upgrades in

  • Everyday Valor

    Master Sgt. Dennis Varnado doesn’t want to be defined as a hero.“If I want to be known for anything, it’s that I always do a job right and I try to treat people well,” said Varnado, a flight chief assigned to the 307th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here.That being said, the title of hero may be hard

  • A Pilot’s Journey

    Air Force Reserve Command Public Affairs presents A Pilot’s Journey, starring Maj. Jessica Hodson, written and produced by Maj. Christopher “Hercules” Vasquez.Hodson is a KC-10 Extender pilot from the Air Force Reserve’s 349th Air Mobility Wing, Travis Air Force Base, California who exemplifies our

  • Active to Reserve: Commander goes from retired to rehired

    The commander of the Air Force Reserve’s 815th Airlift Squadron “Flying Jennies” retired with 20 years of service from the U.S. Air Force in a ceremony at the Roberts Consolidated Maintenance Facility July 28, 2018. Lt. Col. Stuart M. Rubio, an active-duty C-130 pilot who has been commander of the

  • Air Force Reserve team up to save suicidal man atop Mount Hood

    A team of five Reserve Citizen pararescue Airmen partnered with the Oregon Army National Guard on a successful rescue of a climber who called for help atop Mount Hood in the midst of a suicide attempt July 13.Due to the 11,000-foot altitude, the rescue was performed by an ANG Chinook helicopter crew