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  • One cadet’s story: Reservist offers Air Force Academy advice

    (Editor's note: Cadet First Class Sarah Farmer is ontrack to graduate from the Air Force Academy in May with a dual major in biologyand behavioral science. Upon graduation, she plans to serve her country as anAir Force intelligence officer. This is the story of how the former Air ForceReserve

  • Proud to Serve

    Maj. Gen. Stayce Harris is the first female numbered airforce commander in the history of Air Force Reserve Command, but it's not thateasy to get her to talk about her groundbreaking career or how she made it tothe top of 22nd Air Force. She would much rather talk about the 15,000 Air

  • Taking Care of Airmen

     "What's your story?" That's the question Brig. Gen.Richard Scobee likes to ask the Airmen he comes in contact with on a dailybasis. And he wishes everybody else would do the same. "I love talking with ourAirmen and hearing their story," he said. "The next time you see an Airman, askhim what his or

  • Portland Reserve unit seeks combat rescue officers

    Combat rescue officer, or CROs, are AirForce search, rescue, and retrieval experts. They're skilled in recoverystrategy, and leading pararescue - PJ - teams into combat environments toextract personnel or sensitive equipment.Dispatching rescue teams is the Air Force Reserve's 304th RescueSquadron's

  • Profiles in leadership - Maj. Gen. Michael Kim

    Maj. Gen. Michael Kim admits he was “fat, dumb and happy flying airplanes” as a reservist and full-time employee of Delta Airlines when a mentor decided he could do something more."Someone saw something in me and they said, ‘Hey, you know, you could become a squadron commander,’” said Kim,

  • ARPC remembers its first African-American commander

    RonaldReagan, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev were three leading names of the1980s. Another great leader made headlines in the U.S. Air Force Reserve May 16,1987, when the Air Reserve Personnel Center welcomed an African-American astheir commander.Col. Joseph C. Ramsey was the first and

  • Ivy-leaguer seeks adventure as Reservist

    When asked what he had accomplished last summer, Staff Sgt. JoseGutierrez said he traveled to Ecuador to conduct his independent researchproject for his studies at Yale University. The bioenvironmental technician --assigned to the 439th Aerospace Medicine Squadron -- downplayed thesignificance of

  • Deployment causes family hardship, baby beats clock

    Staff Sgt. Phillip Steffen wanted to attend Air Force Reserve YellowRibbon Reintegration Program training with his wife prior to a 2014 overseasdeployment, but time wouldn't allow it."Lookingback I know it would have helped prepare me and the kids for what we wentthrough," said Jamie Steffen during