May 3, 2021 From Little Girl in Ghana to Legislative Fellow in the U.S. Government; Reserve Citizen Airman embodies the American Dream Senior Master Sgt. Eva Appiah, 357th Airlift Squadron first sergeant, was selected as the Air Force Reserve Command's Enlisted Legislative Fellow for 2021.
May 3, 2021 Reservists conduct wing-wide exercise HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah – The 419th Fighter Wing participated in a wing-wide readiness exercise May 1 to assess the wing’s ability to maintain effective command and control while in a contested, degraded, and operationally limited environment.“The biggest takeaway from this exercise is
April 30, 2021 Air Force transitions from CVR Teams to more secure systems Beginning June 15, Commercial Virtual Remote (CVR) Teams will no longer be an option within the Air Force, and all information stored in that system will go away. As the CVR environment goes away, the Air Force network version of Microsoft Teams – a separate application with slightly different
April 29, 2021 Despite COVID-19, Nexus Dawn provides Reservists vital training and readiness tests Reserve Citizen Airmen traveled to multiple military installations in California this week to take part in their units’ first major West Coast readiness exercise since the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 27, 2021 Total Force Recruiting: The first step to winning the high-end fight As I prepared to assume responsibilities as the Command Chief for Air Force Recruiting Service, an organization recently re-tooled as an Air Force Total Force command, I found myself trying to understand this new mantra of “Total Force Recruiting.” To truly answer though, I had to start with the
April 26, 2021 AFRC Force Generation Center Col. Lewis "Mike" Ballard, Vice Commander, Force Generation Center (FGC), and Lt. Col. Thomas Albrecht, Chief, Force Generation Center Battle Watch, explain why the FGC was created, describe the different sections within the center, and denote the relevance of the FGC to the Air Force Reserve on
April 23, 2021 413th FTG hosts first-ever virtual conference Reserve Citizen Airmen with the 413th Flight Test Group recently gathered for the unit’s first-ever virtual conference, hosted at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.With travel restrictions still in effect DoD-wide due to ongoing COVID-19 risks, the conference gave group members an opportunity to safely
April 23, 2021 2020 Outstanding Air Force Reserve Command Unit, Senior Non-Commissioned Officer, Non-Commissioned Officer, and Airmen Combat Crew Communications Member of the Year Awards Congratulations to the following 2020 Outstanding Air Force Reserve Command Unit, Senior Non-Commissioned Officer, Non-Commissioned Officer, and Airmen Combat Crew Communications Member of the Year Award winners.These awards recognize specific Air Force Reserve Members and the Unit that has
April 22, 2021 310th Space Wing takes aim at COVID-19 with mass vaccination effort The 310th Space Wing’s Aerospace Medicine Flight worked with the 302nd Aeromedical Staging Squadron to conduct a mass COVID-19 vaccination event at the Peterson AFB gym, April 11.
April 22, 2021 Getting to know the new AFIMSC senior MA, built infrastructure executive director JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Natural Disaster Recovery Program Management Office, as a key component of the NDR Program, has a new general officer to provide executive-level support for the Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, rebuild. Following recently