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AFRC News

  • Mentoring earns Niagara youth Congressional medal

    It wasn't until Gabriel Curcione's father deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 did the young man feel the weight of being a military child. Curcione’s father is Master Sgt. Paul Curcione, 30th Aerial Port Squadron. “It was really hard not having that second parental figure there,” said Gabriel of his

  • Deployed 445th AES couple provides care for wounded warriors

    Master Sgt. Jennifer Gerritsen, an aeromedical technician with the 445th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, helps provide care for wounded warriors while deployed here April 21, 2016. Jennifer and her husband, Kiley, also assigned to the 445th AES, had the

  • Reserve test pilot earns AFA President's Award

    Lt. Col. Michael S. Bess is the recipient of the 2015 Air Force Association Outstanding Reserve Aircrew Award (President's Award).Bess is an F-15E Strike Eagle operational test and evaluation pilot and lead F-15E Combat Hammer evaluation pilot with the 926th Operations Group, Eglin Air Force Base,

  • Beale reserve unit returns to refueling mission

    The Air Force Reserve's 940th Wing here was officially redesignated as the 940th Air Refueling Wing today. The wing will change from the C2ISR (command, control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) mission to the air refueling mission and fly KC-135 Stratotanker, which has provided aerial

  • Boy becomes first 403rd Wing Pilot for a Day

    Nine-year-old Jon Bryant “JB” Orso of the Mobile, Alabama, area became the 403rd Wing’s first Pilot for a Day today. Orso, who was sworn in as an honorary Air Force Reserve second lieutenant this morning, is in remission after receiving treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at the U.S.A.

  • Reserve units lead Patriot Hook joint exercise

    Four Air Force Reserve Airlift Control Flights, federal, state and several municipal emergency response agencies convened April 20-25 in three Southern California locations to participate in Exercise Patriot Hook. Patriot Hook is an annual joint-service exercise coordinated by the Air Force

  • AFRC announces maintenance, logistics readiness awards

    Air Force Reserve Command has announced the 2015 Maintenance and Logistics Readiness Awards.Maintenance winners:Senior Airman Rachel D. Upshaw, 707th Maintenance Squadron, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, won the the Chief Master Sgt Thomas N. Barnes Award, (Crew Chief of the Year). The 442nd

  • Flying Jennies participate in U.S. Army exercise Saber Junction 16

    The Air Force Reserve’s 815th Airlift Squadron returned April 20 from Aviano Air Base, Italy, after participating in the U.S. Army Europe’s Saber Junction 16 exercise since April 5.Saber Junction is the Army’s annual combat training center certification exercise to evaluate the readiness of the

  • A Kodiak Moment

    (Editor’s note: As the Air Force Reserve celebrates its 68th birthday this month, the service is also celebrating more than 50 years of being a good neighbor in communities throughout the United States and the world. For years, Air Force Reservists have been helping people in need in underserved

  • Reserve officer being recognized for intervening in stabbing

    City officials in Newport News, Virginia, are planning to formally recognize an Air Force reservist who intervened in a dispute that resulted in the stabbing of a local woman.Capt. Erick of the 718th Intelligence Squadron at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, was on his way home after a unit