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  • 340th First Sergeant

    340th shirt wears many hats

    Traditional Reserve Citizen Airmen tend to be busy with civilian and military career responsibilities, as well as the day-to-day tasks that are part of life. Apparently that isn’t busy enough for people like 340th Flying Training Group First Sergeant Senior Master Sgt. Samuel Caballero, who effortlessly wears spouse and teammate, civilian
  • More than a dozen members of the 96th Flying Training Squadron, Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, used their vacation time to help victims recover from the catastrophic damage incurred during Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. Back row, left to right: Lt. Col. Kervin Waterman, Lt. Col. Wolfgang Von Aspe, Maj. Brian Boettger, Lt. Col. Doug Hayes, Maj. Sam Moore, Maj. William Pope, Lt. Col. Matt Behnken and Lt. Col. Chris Perkins. Front row, left to right: Maj. Aric Wagner, Lt. Col. Vinny Danna, Lt. Col. Kent Bolster, Maj. Jake Hostetler and 96th FTS Commander Lt. Col. Keith Shearin. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. David Mitchell, 96th FTS)

    Service, 96th FTS-style

    “Thank you for your service.” How does it feel when you’re in uniform and hear those words? We take those words for granted. It always makes me feel a little awkward. I don’t really know how to reply. Most often, I reply with a simple “thank you” and a half-hearted smile. I know that a “thank you for your service” is not just for me but for the
  • Duckworth assumes command of 340th FTG

    340th FTG welcomes new commander

    Duckworth assumes command of 340th FTG
  • 22AF commander, command chief visit 340th FTG

    22AF commander, command chief visit 340th FTG

    22AF commander, command chief visit 340th FTG
  • Staff Sgt. Jennifer Shippy, 21st Logistics Readiness Squadron, secures a cargo net around boxes of donated winter weather gear inside the 39th Aerial Port Squadron’s loading bay at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, Jan. 29, 2018. The winter clothes, donated by Cyrus International, Inc., are being transported via a C-17 Globemaster aircraft from March AFB, California, to mountainous villages in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Frank Casciotta)

    Reserve aerial porters help Denton program deliver aid to Afghanistan

    For the second year in a row, Air Force reservists with the 39th Aerial Port Squadron have partnered with the 21st Logistics Readiness Squadron to help deliver winter weather clothes to Afghanistan via the Denton Program.Similar to last year, there was more than 13,000 pounds of donated winter weather clothes to be prepared and transported from
  • 2nd Lt. Joe Mirarchi prepares to fly during undergraduate pilot training in 1988.

    Retiring 39th FTS pilot welcomes son to the long blue line

    Retiring 39th FTS pilot welcomes son to the long blue line

  • 340th FTG names 4th quarter, annual award winners

    340th quarterly and annual awards announced
  • Master Sgt. Brandon Cullum, 556th RED HORSE Squadron structures supervisor, welds concrete wall panels together July 20, 2016, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. The EOD warehouse will be utilized for Silver Flag training and will store items such as Humvees, bomb suits, EOD robots and training equipment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Arielle Vasquez)

    622nd Airmen vital in EOD warehouse construction in Guam

    Engineers from the 622nd Civil Engineer Group, Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, deployed for five months and played a key role in the design and construction management plans for a new explosive ordnance disposal warehouse at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.The new $915,000 facility was built to store items such as Humvees, bomb suits, EOD robots
  • The 440th Airlift Wing's last remaining aircraft tilts its wing as it makes a final pass over the Pope Field hangar on its departure from Pope, June 29, 2016. The unit had been in the process of inactivation for several months and its other C-130s had been redistributed to other units. (Courtesy photo)

    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 signed over to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and

  • Top 10 most viewed AFRC stories of 2015

    Air Force Reserve Command News Service has compiled a list of the top 10 stories on AFRC.AF.mil for 2015. The stories were placed in order based on the number of views.10.   Hurricane Hunters war on weatherKEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. --  At 1:15 a.m. June 15, Lt. Col. Jeff Ragusa shuts off his alarm, rolls out of bed and gets ready quietly and
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