Hurricane Hunters: Prepare now for hurricane season

Hurricane season starts June 1 and now is the time to prepare. To promote this message, an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircrew with their WC-130J Super Hercules and a team of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hurricane experts visited five Gulf Coast cities as part of this

Niagara aircrew transition to new airframe

As the 914th Airlift Wing continues the transition to its new mission as an Air Refueling Wing, the first group of veteran aircrew members to train at Altus AFB Oklahoma on the KC-135 airframe will graduate and begin returning home in February. This return of 328th Airlift Squadron aircrew members

A Contagion Spreads: Air Force Kudzu

The zealous desire by some Airmen to acquire then boastfully use post-nominals is as noxious and invasive in the Air Force as the destructive weed kudzu is in the American countryside. It detracts from the study of the profession of arms, hampers the delivery of required services, and delays

Final 440th C-130 Departs Pope

The final C-130 Hercules aircraft of the Air Force Reserve's 440th Airlift Wing departed here June 29, 2016, signifying the end of the flying era of the historic unit that will be inactivating in September.The 440th flew the aircraft to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, where it was

AF leaders celebrate AF Reserve Birthday

Gold medal moment for CAP honoree

Maj. Gen. Stayce Harris, 22nd Air Force commander, presented a Congressional Gold Medal to Cecelia Bell during a ceremony Jan. 7 at the Milestone Senior Living Facility in Faribault, Minnesota. The Medal was awarded to Bell for her service in the Civil Air Patrol during World War II. “Welcome

Air Force Reserve Command realigns three units

Air Force Reserve Command announced organizational assignment changesthat will realign several units within the command’s numbered air forces. Two organizations were reassigned Dec. 10. The 932nd AirliftWing, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, was reassigned from Fourth Air Force,March Air Reserve

Hurricane Hunters fly storms from Hawaii, Georgia

Aircrews with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron "Hurricane Hunters," departed Friday and today for Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, where they will start flying data-gathering missions Sunday into storms southwest of the Hawaiian Islands.Operations for Hurricane Joaquin moved to Hunter

Colorado reservists lead air ops for multinational exercise

Air Force Reservists from the 302nd Airlift Wing here directed the air operations portion of the largest airborne training exercise in Europe since the end of the Cold War.Col. Erich Novak, 302nd AW vice commander, Lt. Col. Frank Wilde, 302nd Operations Group deputy commander, and Lt. Col. Bradley