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  • Pacific Air Force, Sri Lanka host Pacific Airlift Rally

    The destructive power of Mother Nature has made headlines around the world, and every country is fighting its own war when it comes to natural disasters and humanitarian relief. To prepare for such events in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, the U.S. Pacific Air Force and Sri Lanka Air Force co-hosted

  • AROWS change improves visibility of operational requirements

    Beginning Oct. 1, a new data field will be added to the Air Reserve Orders Writing System that will be used primarily to track military personnel appropriation and other orders for operational requirements.This new field will be called Air Reserve Component Operational Requirements Tracker or

  • Reserve Hurricane Hunters ensure critical data transmission

    Imagine a five-lane highway that cuts down to two lanes. Obviously, during rush hour the flow of traffic could slow down considerably or even stop. This is what happened on Friday, Sept. 8 as information from five different aircraft flying in three different storms came into the National Hurricane

  • Chaplain baptizes 403rd Wing child

    Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Pat Thompson, 403rd Wing, baptizes Caleb Benkoski, son of Capt. Brenda Gohr, 403rd Wing assistant staff judge advocate, and Maj. Aric Benkoski, 132nd Wing, Iowa Air National Guard, Sept. 10, 2017 at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. “It was important to both my husband and I

  • Earth Wind and Fire: Reservists own the skies

    For the first time in the nearly 70-year history of the Air Force Reserve, all three special mission units have been called to action simultaneously due to a series of catastrophic events that have affected wide swaths of the U.S.Reserve Citizen Airmen from across the country are conducting weather

  • Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters fly Irma

    Tech. Sgt. Karen Moore, a loadmaster for the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, prepares a dropsonde to be released into the eyewall of Hurricane Irma. Crews have been flying missions continuously in three different hurricanes in the Atlantic region simultaneously. (U.S. Air Force photo by: Staff

  • Patriot Warrior mirrors real-world deployed environment

    Deployments take place in an atmosphere that’s completely different than what most Americans experience in their daily lives. That’s why it’s important for Reserve Citizen Airmen to train in an environment that mirrors a real-world deployment as closely as possible.

  • Hurricane Hunters track Harvey

    Harvey began as a scattered collection of clouds drifting across the Atlantic Ocean and in just over a week has developed into a category two hurricane.