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  • Yellow Ribbon unveils new in-depth couples’ program

    The Air Force Reserve Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program has added a class aimed at couples to its weekend slate of deployment-related training options.The Couples Enrichment Program is designed to help those who are married, engaged or dating delve into their relationships to better understand

  • Financial planner brings warmth, common sense to Yellow Ribbon

    Financial management classes drew standing-room only attendance last weekend at the final Air Force Reserve Yellow Ribbon Reintegration training event of the year. “The choices a couple makes today will impact them in five years,” said instructor Kristy Tubbs. “This can be a loan for a vehicle or an

  • Teens connect, support one another nationwide

    AirReserve Component Teen Leadership Council members volunteered during a YellowRibbon Reintegration event here Nov 20-22.The council is a nationwide group of 14 teensfrom Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard families. It provides a youthperspective in the planning, implementation and evaluation

  • 10th Flight Test Squadron: troublemakers on a mission

    Confident from daily encounters with danger and thousands of hours flying military and civilian aircraft, the pilots and crews of the 10th Flight Test Squadron also happen to be the biggest troublemakers on Tinker Air Force Base.

  • Security team protects Yellow Ribbon attendees

    As a streamof visitors walks across brightly colored carpet in an immense hotel here, aman in a suit directs them to a registration table. He does this for scores ofpeople over a 3-hour period at the start of an Air Force Reserve YellowReintegration Program training event.“Professional,yet

  • Citizen Airman, Cyber Warrior

    As a civilian, he protects the computers that run the Texas power grid. As a military member, he protects the computers that run the Air Force. As a Citizen Airman, he's proud to serve his country.In the U.S. Air Force Reserve, Senior Master Sgt. Michael Weeks serves as the superintendent of

  • Hurricane Hunters war on weather

    At 1:15 a.m. June 15, Lt. Col. Jeff Ragusa shuts off his alarm, rolls out of bed and gets ready quietly and leaves for work. The pilot and aircraft commander meets his crew at 2:15 a.m. to prepare for a 4:30 a.m. departure to fly a low-level investigation mission at 500 feet above the Gulf of Mexico

  • Chaplain addresses Reserve deployers in swan song

    In what was likely his last public address as an active-duty Airman, the Air Force deputy chief of chaplains was part minister/part standup comedian Saturday for an audience of pre- and post-deployment reservists and their loved ones.“Some of you are adjusting to life after deployment, some of you

  • Yellow Ribbon provides support for teens

     In between bites of lunch at an Air Force Reserve conference here Saturday, teenager Anthony Jackson Jr. talked about how quiet his house was during his mother’s recent overseas military deployment. “It’s missing something. You miss the person being there,” the 16-year-old said at a Yellow Ribbon

  • McChord Citizen Airman is Bagram's only weapons repairman

    When a M4 rifle or a M2 .50 caliber rifle goes does, there is one Airman responsible for getting the weapons system back into the fight.As Bagram's only small arms weapons repairman, Tech. Sgt. Kevin Beers is responsible for inspecting and repairing weapons for the security forces squadron,