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  • Game Changer: Aerial porters get to test weight-bearing exoskeleton

    The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Center for Rapid Innovation, or CRI, recently held an event with Air Force Reserve Command’s 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to demonstrate the latest Forge System, a pneumatically-powered exoskeleton that augments leg strength to

  • Reserve philanthropist develops e-course to help others fly

    When she was a little girl, Capt. Kristin “Nikki” Bodie, 77th Air Refueling Squadron KC-46 pilot at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, used to lay in the grass with her grandmother on their farm in rural Saluda, South Carolina, and watch the fighter jets from nearby Shaw Air Force Base

  • Wing Helps Homeless Airman Get Back on His Feet

    When Staff Sgt. Nic Johnson had to move into his car after getting let go from his job, he realized he was in a bad spot. He had no house, no family to lean on and no job outside his work as a traditional Reservist firefighter with the 442nd Civil Engineer Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base,

  • Collaborating in the ER: Medics assist, learn in community hospitals

    In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic – when there were no vaccines, a shortage of health care workers and hospitals were beyond capacity — the U.S. health care system needed help. The Department of Defense answered the call, embedding thousands of service members in civilian hospitals

  • Doctor Duo Builds Bridge of Service Around the World

    Ifiok Idem and Emem Idem faced a dilemma.The young doctors were working at a small mission hospital in a remote Nigerian village when a patient arrived in dire need of surgery and a blood transfusion. The problem was there was not enough blood in the blood bank for the procedure.

  • Reservist intent on helping others teams up with unique nonprofit

    As an aeromedical evacuation technician with the Air Force Reserve’s 934th Airlift Wing, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Air Reserve Station, Minnesota, and a civilian paramedic in Madison, Wisconsin, Master Sgt. Brian Tremain has a heart for helping people make it through some of the

  • Reservists Sharpen Skills, Build relationships at Resolute Sentinel

    While many of his friends were lying on the beach or riding roller coasters with their kids at amusement parks, Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy spent his summer vacation at one of the top military hospitals in the El Salvadorian capital of San Salvador, sharpening his own medical skills while sharing

  • Keesler Reservists using upgraded night-vision devices

    Imagine a nearly pitch black space.The hand you can only faintly see in front of you rises to flip a battery pack towards your forehead and a faint hum of power buzzes incessantly like a mosquito in the summertime.