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  • Airlift Wing Takes Joint Training to a New Level

    More than 60 service members from across the Air Force Reserve, Minnesota National Guard, Wisconsin National Guard and the Royal Canadian Air Force participated in a joint training exercise aboard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and a C-17 Globemaster III across two states recently.

  • Louisiana Reservists Help Construct Education Building in Iowa

    Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 307th Bomb Wing’s Civil Engineer Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, traveled to Woodbine, Iowa, recently to partner with the Defense Department’s Innovative Readiness Training program and the Ignite Pathways program to help construct a new

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.