Features

Oct. 10, 2023
Reserve, Active Duty Team Up for First MQ-9 Dirt Landing

Just south of Fort Stockton, Texas, sits one of the largest private armed forces training centers in the country. The Nine Mile Training Center is an expansive terrain offering privacy from prying eyes … and it’s the perfect place to put the MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft through its paces.At
Oct. 10, 2023
ARPC activates new retirement services initiative

The Air Reserve Personnel Center activated a new retirement services initiative on June 1, 2023, designed to assist Reserve Citizen Airmen with their transition into retirement.
June 21, 2023
Unique Exercise Prepares Defenders for Austere Conflict

Across the country, Reserve Citizen Airmen are constantly sharpening their wartime skills to ensure they are always Ready Now. Citizen Air Commandos from the 919th Special Operations Security Forces Squadron at Duke Field, Florida, for example, recently completed a four-day field training exercise
June 21, 2023
The Road to Recovery: Command Chief Fights Back After Tragedy

Chief Master Sgt. Barbara Gilmore, the command chief of the 403rd Wing, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, has always liked to push her limits. From running 5Ks or half marathons to skydiving to participating in the 26-mile Bataan Memorial Death March through desert terrain and conditions, she was
June 21, 2023
Youngstown Wing Tests New Electronic Aerial Spray System

When members of the 910th Airlift Wing returned to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, in March for their annual aerial spray mission at the Utah Test and Training Range, this year’s product sprayed just a bit faster out of the unit’s aerial spray-modified C-130H Hercules aircraft.
June 21, 2023
Reserve Transitions to Defense Travel System

Air Force Reserve Command is continuing steps to prepare for the transition to a single travel management system which, when completed Oct. 1, 2023, will mark a transformational effort for the command.
June 21, 2023
One Team, No Seam: Travis Hosts Large Readiness Exercise

The Air Force Reserve’s 349th Air Mobility Wing was a major player when the active-duty 60th Air Mobility Wing executed Exercise Golden Phoenix, a large-scale readiness exercise synchronizing full-spectrum support from installation partners at Travis Air Force Base, California, in May.
June 21, 2023
Civil Engineers Train with Defenders to Promote Multi-Capable Wingman Concept

More than 80 Reserve Citizen Airmen assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing’s Civil Engineer Squadron deployed from Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, to Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, this spring for a 96-hour contingency training with a detachment of defenders assigned to the 910th Security
June 21, 2023
Design Thinking: A Valuable Addition to Your Continuous Improvement and Innovation Toolkit

If you’ve been around the Air Force Reserve for any amount of time, you probably know that the Reserve has used tools like Continuous Process Improvement (CPI), which utilized Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, for years to try and improve efficiency and quality in most of its processes.
June 21, 2023
Dover Reservists Head West for Off-Station Readiness Training

With readiness at the forefront of their minds, more than 40 maintainers from the 512th Airlift Wing traveled from their home at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, to Honolulu for off-station readiness training this spring.