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  • Defense Contract Management Agency Lockheed Martin Fort Worth’s flight operations team is led by Marine Corps Lt. Col. Joe Hutcheson (back row, first from left). The team provides program support and worldwide delivery for the F-35 Lightning II, the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-22 Raptor. It is a global effort supported by eight active duty service members, multiple civilians and two Air Force Reserve officers — Lt. Col. Michael Kirk (front row, third from left) and Maj. Kerry McAnally (back row, fourth from left). According to leadership, the pair play a vital role within the mission. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics-Angel DelCueto)

    Reserve Citizen Airmen support global delivery mission

    Two Individual Mobilization Augmentees assigned as government flight representatives with DCMA Lockheed Martin Fort Worth provide program support and worldwide delivery for the F-35 Lightning II, the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-22 Raptor.
  • A semi truck driver returns to his truck to receive humanitarian supplies at Seguin Auxiliary Airfield in support of the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, Sept. 1, 2017. Hurricane Harvey formed in the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in southeastern Texas, bringing record flooding and destruction to the region. U.S. military assets supported FEMA as well as state and local authorities in rescue and relief efforts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Larry E. Reid Jr., Released)

    Hurricanes, wildfires keep AF Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officers busy in 2017

    With massive category 5 hurricanes slamming the Gulf Coast, East Coast, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands, and wildfires raging in the West, these Reserve Citizen Airmen Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officers were called on 197 times to support real-world disasters, National Special Security Events and Special Event Assessment Rating Events
  • Reserve Commander visits 944th Citizen Airmen

    Reserve commander visits 944th Citizen Airmen

    Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 944th Fighter Wing welcomed the commander of Air Force Reserve Command, Lt. Gen. Maryanne Miller during the January Unit Training Assembly. Miller spent three days at the home of the F-35 Lightening II, joining 944th FW Reservists as they went through their monthly training events.
  • Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 44th Aerial Port Squadron during Operation Christmas Drop Dec. 9, 2017, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Operation Christmas Drop has been providing critical supplies to 56 Micronesian Islands since 1952. The 44th Aerial Port Squadron supports the 624th Regional Support Group’s mission of providing mission essential combat readiness, quality management and peacetime deployments in the Pacific area of responsibility. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Daena Mansapit)

    Reservists bundle Christmas joy for remote islanders

    Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 44th Aerial Port Squadron here alongside the people of Guam worked hand-in-hand filling boxes full of critical supplies Dec. 9 as part of Operation Christmas Drop. For the first time OCD will be using the U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules aircraft to air drop bundles to 56 islands in Micronesia to continue the longest running humanitarian airlift operation in the history of the Department of Defense impacting the lives of more than 20,000 islanders.
  • Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 624th Regional Support Group learn more about the Hickam Field attack during a battlefield staff ride at the Pacific Air Force Headquarters, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Dec. 3, 2017. The tour hosted by the unit’s historian, Staff Sgt. Christine Kearney-Kurt, focused on the remnants of war from 76 years ago during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack at Hickam Field when America was launched into World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Theanne Herrmann)

    AF Reservist brings Hickam Field history alive

    A historian for the 624th Regional Support Group here continued a time-honored tradition of providing a battlefield staff ride Dec. 3 designed to bring the history of Hickam Field alive for unit members. Reserve Citizen Airman Tech. Sgt. Christine Kearney-Kurt coordinated the staff ride, which is a tradition that dates back to the 1890s and has been used as an educational and professional development tool to apply lessons learned from the battlefield to present day.
  • A poem written by Staff Sgt. Dustin H. Toth, 310th Force Support Squadron, lies typed out on top of a desk on Wednesday, Nov. 29th, 2017.

    Reserve Citizen Airman conquers obstacles through poetry

    It is often apparent that a person is in the military if you pay close attention to their outer appearance; the haircut they sport, the clothing they wear or the way they display situational awareness. After all, Airmen wear the same uniform and receive the same training to create a cohesive display of professionalism. While this uniformity is vital to maintaining structure within the force, it is also important to recognize that each military member has a personal story lying beneath that well-pressed surface.
  • A few 315th Airlift Wing senior leaders proved it by completing the seven-day, 450-mile 19th Annual Mountain to Coast bike ride in North Carolina.

    315th AW leaders take on ‘Mountain to Coast” bike tour

    Being over the hill is no excuse for not making it over the next hill. A few 315th Airlift Wing senior leaders proved it by completing the seven-day, 450-mile 19th Annual Mountain to Coast bike ride in North Carolina.
  • Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers work at San Juan Center, Puerto Rico, Sept. 27, 2017. The controllers were communicating with aircraft utilizing a communications link provided by the Air National Guard. The Air National Guard is working with numerous federal and local agencies, such as the FAA, during the recovery effort on Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, 2017. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Dan Heaton)

    Small Reserve unit restores air traffic in Puerto Rico

    As Hurricane Maria battered the U.S. Virgin Island St. Croix, a small Reserve unit from Oklahoma raced to Puerto Rico on Sept. 19, 2017, to evacuate air traffic controllers before the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in 85 years made landfall.
  • In honor of the Air Force’s 70th Anniversary, a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 507th Air Refueling Wing operating out of Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., performed a flyover Sept. 16, 2017, at a University of Oklahoma football game at the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Grady Epperly)

    Video: Okies bring the boom

  • Master Sgt. Michael Lopez, 68th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, directs a vehicle off of a C-5M Super Galaxy, flown by Air Force Reserve Citizen Airmen with the 433rd Airlift Wing from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, after landing at Ceiba, Puerto Rico Oct. 1, 2017. The Alamo Wing’s Reserve Citizen Airmen have flown 17 missions during the past month to aid hurricane recovery efforts in the United States and its territories to include Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Carlos J. Treviño

    Texas C-5M delivers supplies to Puerto Rico

    In the aftermath of three devastating hurricanes that struck Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean region of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Citizen Airmen of Air Force Reserve Command’s 433rd Airlift Wing flew their 17th mission in a C-5M Super Galaxy in less than a month to answer their nation’s call for help in the commonwealth of Puerto Rico in response to the destruction of Hurricane Maria.
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