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  • Maintenance personnel win AFRC award

    Air Force Reserve Command announced the 2016 Lt. Gen. Leo Marquez Awards for Aircraft Maintenance and Munitions/Missile Maintenance. The awards recognize base-level military and civil aircraft, munitions and missile maintenance personnel who perform hands-on maintenance or manage a maintenance

  • 482nd proves "Effective" during UEI

    The 482nd Fighter Wing successfully passed a thorough inspection of the wing’s ability to carry out its mission culminating in a capstone visit by Air Force Reserve Command’s Inspector General. Col. David P. Garfield, Commander, 482nd Fighter Wing welcomed the 59 inspectors during the February Unit

  • AF seeks Alison Award for Character and Innovation nominations

    Air Force officials are accepting nominations for the Alison Award for Character and Innovation.The award, sponsored by the Falcon Foundation in support of the U.S. Air Force Academy, recognizes one Air Force commissioned officer who has demonstrated outstanding character and innovation in a single

  • Security Forces Squadron member saves family

    On a Friday evening, an Airman and his son were on their way to the Sam Johnson Fitness Center here, when they heard tires screeching on the road behind them and saw the sound was coming from a white car that then tumbled into a canal. The car quickly sank under the water, trapping three passengers

  • Commentary: Spiritual resiliency: Are you a well-rounded Airman?

    “Personal development strengthens physical, mental, social, and spiritual resiliency in an effort to build well-rounded Airmen.”  These words on personal development are more than a mandate from Air Force Instruction 1-2, they are words each one of us should internalize to build ourselves into the

  • CMSAF: Airmen say goodbye to Cody, welcome Wright

    An American flag, the symbol of freedom, served as the backdrop in a vast aircraft hangar. The bleachers were filled to the brim with Airmen, families and well-wishers from all around the Air Force who came to bid farewell to the 17th Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody and welcome the

  • AF Reserve celebrates 20th anniversary as major command

    The Air Force Reserve is celebrating 20 years as a major command this month. On Feb. 17, 1997, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman presided over a ceremony in Washington, D.C., that established Air Force Reserve Command as the Air Force’s ninth major command. Prior to that date, the

  • AF begins migrating email to cloud-based system in 2017

    The dreaded “your mailbox is full” message is soon to be a thing of the past under a recent directive by the Air Force Space Command to realign resources to more critical priorities and outsourcing services like email.

  • Congratulations to one of our deployed members

    SOUTHWEST ASIA -- This week's Rock Solid Warrior is Staff Sgt. Jordan Navarro, a 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron logistics planner, deployed from Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla. WHY DID YOU JOIN?I grew up overseas as an Air Force brat moving every 2-3 years to Panama, Turkey, Guam,

  • AF responds to hiring freeze

    The Air Force is working with the Defense Department to provide additional guidance on the federal civilian hiring freeze implemented Jan. 23.