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  • 304th Rescue Squadron Find Missing Woman

    A 75-year-old woman was lost in the Pacific Northwest for three days. Search and rescue teams had been methodically looking for her but to no avail.Skamania County Sheriff’s office had been leading the search, along with volunteer teams, for three days before the Sheriff's office asked the 304th

  • Reserve Citizen Airmen participate in tactical pause

    Reserve Citizen Airmen, along with their leadership, took part of their drill weekend to connect and talk about suicide during a Resilience Tactical Pause Oct. 6th, 2019 at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida.Following a commander's call, the Airmen assigned to the 920th Rescue Wing returned to their

  • 920th Mission Support Group Assumption of Command

    Col. Kurt Matthews, 920th Rescue Wing commander, presents the 920th Mission Support Group guidon to Lt. Col. Matthew Heintzelman during an assumption of command ceremony at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, Oct. 5, 2019. Heintzelman's previous assignment was the Deputy Commander for the 482nd Mission

  • Florida Reserve Citizen Airmen take on dual deployments despite challenges

    More than 100 Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing recently deployed in support of operations in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.“This was a bottom-up and top-down effort,” said Col. Kurt Matthews, 920th Rescue Wing commander.“From the bottom up we had our squadrons identifying

  • 304th Rescue Squadron Celebrates One of its Own

    The 304th Rescue Squadron celebrated the promotion of Joshua M. McConkley, director and senior aerospace medicine physician, to the rank of colonel during a ceremony at Portland Air National Guard Base, Oregon, August 4.

  • AFRC restructures the enlisted grade force

    On October 1, more than 3,500 enlisted Reserve Citizen Airmen will see upgrades to their grade authorizations.MAJCOM senior enlisted leaders and other key members reviewed, evaluated and restructured the enlisted grade authorizations as part of the Enlisted Grade Council, established in 2016. The

  • Air Force Recognizes Energy Action Month 2019

    October is Energy Action Month, an opportunity to highlight why energy is a critical enabler to combat capability for the U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense, and to encourage smarter energy use and management for installations, ground vehicles, and aircraft. Unveiled this year, the Air Force

  • Share Your Truth: Be Present

    Nothing can prepare you for the reality of a knock on the door telling you your wife has been in an accident. It can’t prepare you for being the one to identify her by her wedding ring as she lies in a comma in the ICU. Nothing prepares you for becoming a widower and a single dad at the age of

  • Air Force Reserve takes center stage at AFA conference

    AFRC leaders played a prominent role during the conference as Lt. Gen. Richard Scobee, chief of the Air Force Reserve and AFRC commander, led discussions on “Using the Competitive Edge to Train How We Fight,” and Chief Master Sgt. Timothy White Jr., AFRC command chief master sergeant, joined a panel

  • Reserve readiness for today and the future

    The reemergence of long-term strategic and great-power competition necessitates that the Air Force Reserve grow its capabilities to meet the demands of the future operating environment while integrating with AETC and the Air National Guard.