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AFRC News

  • Scott Reserve wing gets new medical clinic

    The 932nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron commemorated the opening of their newly-renovated clinic at Scott Air Force Base with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Jan. 11.The ceremony marked completion of construction and the official unveiling of the long-awaited facility on the fourth floor of the 375th

  • Gold medal moment for CAP honoree

    Maj. Gen. Stayce D. Harris, Commander, 22nd Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, presented a Congressional Gold Medal to Ms. Cecelia Bell during a ceremony Jan. 7, at the Milestone Senior Living Facility in Faribault, Minn. honoring Ms. Bell for her service in the Civil Air Patrol during World War

  • Incentive flight broadens mission understanding

    Outstanding performers in the 927th Air Refueling Wing here got to experience their mission in a more personal way during an refueling flight Jan. 9.The 63rd Air Refueling Squadron took the wing’s stellar Airmen on an incentive flight to observe the KC-135 crew refuel a C-17 Globemaster from Joint

  • Rescue wing retiring aging HC-130s

    With no fanfare other than the fading rumble of its four turbo-prop engines, one of Patrick's well-worn HC-130P/N King aircraft - number 65-00976 - disappeared into the afternoon sky heading into retirement at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, the

  • New maintenance trainer aircraft arrives

    The 919th Special Operations Wing maintainers welcomed their newest aircraft here Jan. 5. The aircraft’s arrival brings an official start to the wing’s newest mission set.The white and blue C-146 Wolfhound touched down to its new home on the Duke flightline. The aircraft is scheduled to be used

  • Air Force takes center stage at Armed Forces Bowl

    NAVAL AIR STATION FORT WORTH JOINT RESERVE BASE, Texas - Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III receives the Great American Patriot Award during the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl at Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 29. Welsh received the award in recognition of exemplary

  • Reserve KC-135s to begin upgrades in February

    KC-135R Stratotankers operated by the 507th Air Refueling Wing are scheduled to be the first Air Force Reserve Command tankers to be retrofitted with the new KC-135 Block 45 upgrade at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex here in February 2016.The latest KC-135 upgrade, called Block 45, will

  • Reservists support historic launch, landing of rocket

    Helicopter aircrews from the 920th Rescue Wing held their hover near Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station while a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted skyward at 8:29 p.m. Dec. 21.On board the Falcon were 11 communications satellites, which were to be placed into low-Earth orbit (LEO)

  • AF Reserve kicks off inaugural Celebration Bowl

    The North Carolina A&T Aggies defeated the Alcorn State Braves to become the first ever Air Force Reserve Celebration Bowl champions at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Dec. 19. “You don’t get opportunities like this very often,” said Maj. Gen. Richard Haddad, Air Force Reserve Command vice commander.

  • Air Force Reserve Command realigns three units

    Air Force Reserve Command announced organizational assignment changesthat will realign several units within the command’s numbered air forces. Two organizations were reassigned Dec. 10. The 932nd AirliftWing, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, was reassigned from Fourth Air Force,March Air Reserve