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  • Air Force releases guidance on use of cloth face covers

    To the extent practical, without significantly impacting mission, all individuals on Department of the Air Force property, installations and facilities are required to wear cloth face coverings when they cannot maintain six feet of physical distance in public areas or work centers.
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    DOD Guidance on the Use of Cloth Face Coverings

    The Department of Defense is committed to taking every precaution to ensure the health and wellbeing of our Service members, DoD civilian employees, families, and the Nation in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. DoD supports, and will continue to implement, all measures necessary to mitigate risks to the spread of the
  • Reservists load into a C-5 Super Galaxy Aircraft to help support COVID-19 relief efforts.

    Air Force Reserve mobilizes medics to New York for COVID-19 response

    Within 48 hours of notification, the Air Force Reserve mobilized more than 120 medical personnel across the nation to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., to help with the fight against COVID-19 in New York City.

  • Public Health Message: Flatten the Curve

    "Empower the fight, disable the disease," said Lt. Col. Jessica Dees, AFRC Command Public Health Officer

  • Goldfein says Air Force remains fully capable despite operational adjustments for coronavirus

    The Air Force is constantly assessing and adjusting practices to protect Airmen and families from the coronavirus pandemic while also ensuring that all operations continue worldwide.

  • COVID-19, from the Command Chief's perspective

    Greetings Makos!As we continue to face this Coronavirus head on as an organization, a nation and the world, I just wanted to share a few thoughts with you as to how I’m adapting to this “new normal”. Change of this magnitude is not easy for anyone, we are all human and this is unquestionably difficult. Well, except for maybe Brig. Gen. Piffarerio,

  • Air Force update for COVID-19 as of March 30

    In an effort to minimize the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 and to prioritize the health and safety of Department of the Air Force personnel, the following modifications have been made:
  • U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Tatiana Abasolo, a member of the Air Force Reserve’s 624th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, provides instruction on how to properly secure a patient for movement during an aeromedical staging and aerial port training at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, March 3, 2019.

    President signs executive order calling up Air Force Reserve medics, other specialties

    For the Air Force Reserve, personnel already serving in the Selected Reserve and Participating Individual Ready Reserve, as well as those assigned to the Individual Ready Reserve, may be asked to volunteer to activate in support of COVID-19 response. If taskings exceed the volunteer pool, involuntary mobilization of the SELRES and IRR to active status is now authorized to ensure mission accomplishment.

  • Confirmed COVID-19 Case on HARB

    A military member has tested positive for COVID-19 at Homestead ARB, Fla. ​This is the first confirmed positive case for the 482nd Fighter Wing and is in addition to the City of Homestead’s 12 positive cases. “A member of the 482nd Fighter Wing has tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19),” said Brig. Gen. David Piffarerio, 482nd Fighter Wing
  • Deployments Q&A graphic to accompany article outlining Q&As

    Deployment Q&A’s

    1. Q: Are all deployments cancelled for the Air Force Reserve?A: Deployments are not cancelled, but the Secretary of Defense has ordered a stop movement for all OCONUS deployments with exceptions. Airmen will start deployment orders in accordance with their AF 938. Airmen are still required to complete pre-deployment training and should confirm
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