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Features

  • The MacGyver Mindset: Human Grit as the Final Firewall

    The alarm comes in the dead of night. Sirens echo across the flight line. Computer screens flicker, data feeds are corrupted, a suspicious video orders a mission stand down. Drones hover over fuel tanks. The fog and friction from modem threats blur command and control.In that moment, what do you do?

  • Ghostriders Return: Reserve flies first AC-130J operational training mission

    The thundering climb of an AC-130J Ghostrider over Florida’s Emerald Coast Oct. 9, 2025, signaled the start of a new era for the Air Force Reserve.For the first time in decades, the 919th Special Oper­ations Wing flew an operational training mission in the Air Force’s most advanced gunship, marking

  • Exercise Gallant Tower: Breaking New Ground in Joint Interoperability

    Exercise Gallant Tower brought together Reserve and active duty Airmen from the 908th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, 71st Rescue Squadron, the 729th Airlift Squad­ron, and Soldiers from the Alabama Army National Guard Det 2C/111th General Support Aviation Battalion, for a joint patient-movement

  • AFRC First Sergeant Vacancies Offer Leadership Growth Opportunities

    Air Force Reserve Command trans­forms more than 100 First Sergeant vacancies across the force into career ad­vancement opportu­nities for emerging leaders who want to make a difference in the lives of fellow Airmen.The command actively recruits technical sergeants eligible for pro­motion and master

  • ARPC upstream supplier to transform Force Support across ARC

    The ARPC EVOLVE Force Support Squadron Up­stream Supplier Initiative launched July 11, 2025 across eight units—six Air Force Reserve Command and two Air National Guard, marking a bold step in standardizing op­erations across the Air Reserve Component.Participating Units 188 FSS (ANG), Fort Smith,

  • Reserve Airmen of the 79th ARS Carry Warrior DNA into the KC-46 Era

    The story of the 79th Air Refuel­ing Squadron began on the beaches of Normandy and continues today in the skies of the Pacific. From drop­ping paratroopers in 1944 to leading today’s KC-46A Pegasus moderniza­tion efforts, Reserve Airmen of the 79th carry forward a legacy of inno­vation, lethality,