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  • ARWO now member of '300 club'

    Climbing back into her seat after being tossed around by turbulence, she noticed the radio was filled with absolute silence.This was the first flight that Lt. Col. Valerie Hendry, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron aerial weather officer remembers vividly."We were flying into Super Typhoon Dot

  • 815th AS commander flies 'fini' flight

    Lt. Col. Brian Freeman, 815th Airlift Squadron commander, gets hosed down after his final flight (or "fini" flight) with the squadron Sept. 25 at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi.Freeman is scheduled to leave command of the 815th AS and become the emergency preparedness liaison officer for the

  • CMSAF Cody visits Keesler Air Force Base

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody and his wife and retired Chief Master Sgt. Athena visited with Airmen of the 403rd Wing, 81st Training Wing and 2nd Air Force here Sept. 22-23.The purpose of the chief's visit was to thank Airmen, answer their questions and listen to their

  • Hurricane Hunters fly Odile

    The Air Force Reserve's Hurricane Hunters flew into Hurricane Odile Sunday to collect critical weather data for the National Hurricane Center.Hurricane Odile formed in the Pacific Ocean and made landfall this morning in Baja, California. After reaching Category 4 strength on Sunday, Odile weakened

  • 403rd maintenance members receive AFRC General Lew Allen Jr. Award

    Two 403rd maintenance reservists were honored as the recipients of the 2014 Air Force Reserve Command General Lew Allen Jr. Award during a ceremony held at the Roberts Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Facility here Sept. 13.Lt. Col. Edward Segura, 403rd Maintenance Group deputy commander, and

  • Air Force Reserve adapts to new AEF Construct

    The Air Force's re-designed Air Expeditionary Force construct will modify how reservists mobilize for contingencies and support combatant commander. The new AEF construct, scheduled to start in October, is intended to make deployments more predicable for reservists and improve opportunities for them

  • Air Force revamps AEF

    The Air Force will deploy Agile Combat Support Airmen under its redesigned air expeditionary force construct October 1. The primary purpose of the redesign was to look at ways to deploy more ACS Airmen with their units and standardize dwell times across the Air Force as much as possible to present a

  • Air Force's top leader discusses Reserve future

    Citizen Airmen have an advocate at the very top of Air Force.During a visit to Robins Air Force Base, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James discussed several issues related to the Air Force Reserve's future.As the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard continue to grow in proportion to the

  • CARCAH manages storm requirements

    A man sits in a small side room of the National Hurricane Center in Miami and scans a bank of computer monitors that stream satellite information, communications from weather reconnaissance aircraft, and the flight path data when the phone rings with news of aircraft being denied clearance into