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  • Reserve wing receives prestigious German Maritime Search and Rescue award

    For the first time in 20 years, the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service awarded the Medal of Honor on Ribbon for Rescue Missions at Sea in Gold in a special ceremony to the 920th Rescue Wing Jan. 26, 2018 at the German Martime Museum.The wing, based out of Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, was

  • Reserve Citizen Airmen helicopter crews train with military working dogs

    Beta, a military working dog with the 45th Space Wing Security Force Squadron, is trained to smell anything from money to explosives and can even recognize hostile actions. He added a new skill Jan. 23 with the help of Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing who familiarized the K9 with

  • Annual Wing Senior Leader Retreat ends in success

    Several dozen Citizen Airmen Reserve commanders and top enlisted members of the 920th Rescue Wing gathered for the unit’s annual Senior Leader Retreat held along the Florida Gulf Coast Jan. 16-19.The four-day event was made up several sessions geared toward strategic planning and coordination, with

  • Citizen Airmen Reservists support successful SBIRS GEO Flight-4 launch

    The Air Force successfully launched the fourth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V Evolved Expendable launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 7:48 p.m. EST, Jan 19, 2018, but not

  • Citizen Airman Reservist Aviator named Space Coast Firefighter of the Year

    Citizen Airman Reservist Senior Airman Davy Brinkmann, a special mission aviator with the 920th Rescue Wing's 301st Rescue Squadron, was named 2017 Space Coast Fire Chief's Association Firefighter of the Year.Brinkmann has served with the Rockledge Fire Station as a paramedic and firefighter for the

  • AFJROTC launches Flight Academy program to address aircrew shortage

    Headquarters Air Force Junior ROTC has launched a program aimed at potentially putting more pilots in the cockpits of military aircraft to help address the Air Force’s ongoing aircrew shortage.Beginning in the summer of 2018, select AFJROTC cadets who applied for a new Fight Academy scholarship will

  • Continuing Resolutions Create Uncertainty in Defense Department

    In Brussels to participate in the NATO Military Committee meeting, Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said continuing budget resolutions must end so the DoD can achieve the fiscal stability and predictability it requires.

  • New year, new EPR policy

    Air Force officials announced Jan. 4, 2018, Enlisted Performance Reports are no longer required for regular Air Force Airmen in the grade of airman first class and below with less than 36 months’ Time-In-Service or Air Reserve Component Airmen below the grade of senior airman. This policy change

  • Employee Assistance Program available to all civilians

    For civilian employees of Air Force Reserve Command who need a little helping hand in dealing with any of life’s myriad challenges, assistance is just a phone call or a mouse click away.As of Oct. 1, the Air Force started offering Federal Occupational Health's Employee Assistance Program and