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  • RED MAN training teaches skills, teamwork

    In most schools, classroom participants are expected to behave. At Homestead, one group of students not only fought with their instructors, but it was encouraged. Twenty-five security forces Airmen took part in Unarmed Defensive Tactics training here Feb. 10. The class taught skills such as law

  • Riehl takes command of Civil Engineer Squadron

    Maj. William S. Riehl, III, assumed command of the 482nd Civil Engineer Squadron in a ceremony here February 11. Col. Dennis Daley, 482nd Mission Support Group commander, presided over the ceremony. Major Riehl takes over from Lt. Col. Mark Wolfe, who is retiring after commanding the civil engineers

  • Air Force Reservist wins Teacher of the Year

    Modestly understating the accomplishment, a schoolteacher-Citizen Airman assigned here is looking toward future challenges, savoring inspirational words of her peers and integrating Air Force Reserve skills into a continuing drive for excellence after earning accolades. Senior Airman Patricia

  • Geared up... An Airman against the storm

    Main power had been off for a while and the hospital's generator had just lost a battle against the water flowing into the utilities room on the first floor. Hurricane Katrina was beating on the door of the Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., base hospital; hallways and rooms were dark. But Senior Airman

  • Reservist earns membership to 9-G club

    She selected Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., and an F-16 fighter pilot and jet of the 93rd Fighter Squadron helped make it happen on Jan. 22. "The choice was easy," said Senior Airman Dawn Larrieu, one of two winners from last fiscal year's Get 1 Now recruiting program. "The F-16 is famous for its

  • Employers get bird's-eye view of reservist contributions

    Twenty-five employers of Homestead's Air Force reservists and reservists of other military services visited here and the Florida Keys Jan. 11 and 12 to get an up-close look at the Reserve mission. The two-day event, organized by volunteers of the Florida Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve,

  • Air Force reservists form elite Special Response Team

    There is a tension in the air as a team of emergency responders prepare for a mission. It is not the usual nervous tension, but the kind of tension someone gets when they have trained for something and now it's time to use it. A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter warms its twin turbine engines as the

  • New commander leads 482nd Security Forces Squadron

    Lt. Col. Frank P. Locascio assumed command of the 482nd Security Forces Squadron in a ceremony here at Homestead Air Reserve Base Dec. 2. Col. Locascio takes over from Lt. Col. James Larkin who led the squadron for more than four years before moving on to work with the Federal Emergency Management