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Features

  • Team Dover Airmen Test Innovative Technology

    Active-duty and Reserve Airmen at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, tested a new communications and sensor platform kit on the flight line in October. The Helios platform, developed by a California-based defense technology company, is designed to provide aircrews with satellite internet connectivity

  • C-130H Avionics Go Digital With Major Modernization Upgrade

    Air Force Reserve Command’s C-130H fleet began the transition from analog to digital recently with testing beginning on a major upgrade of the aircraft’s avionics system. The update, called Avionics Modernization Program Increment 2, is a significant improvement to the almost 60-year-old aircraft’s

  • Travis Aircrews Assist in Rare Search and Rescue Mission

    It’s not every day that tanker aircrews get asked to take part in a search-and-rescue mission, but that’s just what happened to a pair of KC-10A Extender aircrews assigned to the Air Force Reserve’s 349th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force, California, during the October unit training assembly

  • IMAs Have Unique Opportunity to Serve at Merchant Marine Academy

    Lt. Col. Nicholas Passarella and Lt. Col. Jason McMunn, a pair of Air Force Reserve individual mobilization augmentees, recently had the unique opportunity to work with midshipmen cadets at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in support of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program.

  • Rescue Parachute Riggers Become Airborne Qualified

    A group of combat search and rescue Aircrew Flight Equipment rigger Airmen, assigned to the 308th, 306th and 304th Rescue Squadrons, have recently become the 920th Rescue Wing’s first AFE Airmen to become airborne qualified.

  • Commander Parachutes With Reserve Rescue Wing

    Calling it the thrill of a lifetime, Lt. Gen. John Healy had the opportunity to take part in a tandem parachute jump from the back of a 920th Rescue Wing HC-130J Combat King II aircraft at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida, in October.