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AFRC News

  • Joint Reserve Intelligence Center holds ribbon cutting ceremony

    The Joint Reserve Intelligence Center, Minneapolis (JRIC) held a ribbon cutting ceremony here Friday. Rear Adm. Daniel MacDonnell, commander of the Naval Information Forces Reserve, hosted approximately 60 people at the event. Special guests included: Brig. Gen. Christie Nixon, Military Intelligence

  • Memorial run honors fallen APS Airmen

    The 70th Aerial Port Squadron participated in the 3rd annual Port Dawg Memorial 5K at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida May 14.Each year members of the Aerial Port community meet on bases and other locations around the world to honor fallen Aerial Porters in a 3.1069-mile run. “Port Dawg is a

  • 'Apples to oranges'

    Team awarded for modeling tool that compares Reserve and active-duty manpower costs

  • Trials, tribulations, triumph

    Dobbins Airmen gathered at Verhulst Hall, May 14, to listen to Hershel Greenblat speak about his Holocaust survival during World War II.Born inside a cave in Ukraine, Greenblat spent his first year and a half underground while his parents fought with resistance groups. He stressed the importance of

  • Niagara Airmen, aircraft leave for deployment

    May 9 marked the first time since Desert Storm that a four-ship fly away of C-130 Hercules aircraft took place here. It was also the last, as the 914th Airlift Wing prepares to transition to the KC-135 Stratotanker refueling mission.That final departure leaves behind a legacy of more than 40 years

  • AF Reserve, ANG Airmen prepare for 2016 wildland fire season

    More than 400 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Airmen from across the country gathered May 2-6 to be certified on the military’s Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, known as MAFFS, in preparation for the 2016 wildland fire season.Airmen from four ANG wings, together with the AF Reserve’s

  • Hill F-35s form up for combat training

     F-35 pilots here began flying routine four-ship combat training missions at the Utah Test and Training range in the west desert this week.Active duty and Reserve pilots from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings will use the jet’s intricate computer network to evade a series of simulated threats.

  • Team Dobbins competes in Savage Race

    Your heart is pumping, adrenaline rushing, and you’re pushing to your limit as you trek through an unfamiliar, wooded terrain. Your wingmen are at your side experiencing the same challenges, but still encouraging you to press forward. Your shoes are full of mud, your clothes soaked and clinging to

  • New maintenance stands cut C-130J inspection times

    Maintaining the C-130J Super Hercules fleet here became a more efficient process for the 403rd Maintenance Squadron Isochronal Inspection Dock.The ISO Dock received new maintenance stands April 14.The first aircraft to undergo an inspection using the new stands is enabling maintainers to test out

  • Airshow offers sky high entertainment

    A plane performs aerial acrobatics in front of “The Lone Star Lady II,” a B-52 Stratofortress assigned to the 307th Bomb Wing, during the Barksdale Defenders of Liberty Air Show on Barksdale Air Force Base, La., May 1, 2016. Thousands of spectators travelled to the base to see a wide variety of