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  • New tool enhances AF safety inspections, assessments and evaluations

    A new module has been launched through the Air Force Safety Automated System on May 17, arming safety professionals AF-wide with a single method to document and track both spot and annual inspections, as well as safety assessments and evaluations at a local and enterprise level.Created in 2007 by

  • Air Force transitions to a single combat uniform

    Air Force leaders announced the service will move to a single combat utility uniform, adopting the Operational Camouflage Pattern, or OCP, already in use by the Army and Airmen in combat zones and in certain jobs across the Air Force.

  • 442 MXG commander retires

    U.S. Air Force Col. James Brock, the 442d Maintenance Group commander, returns the salute of Lt. Col. Jeff Gorman, deputy 442 MXG commander, during his retirement ceremony at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., May 5, 2018. Brock became the commander of the 442 MXG in August 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo by

  • 442d Fighter Wing returns from deployment

    On Saturday afternoon, the 442nd Fighter Wing welcomed back the wing’s main body of deployed Reserve Citizen Airmen, who recently returned from a 90-day deployment to Kandahar, Afghanistan.The group was originally intended to support Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq and Syria, but was notified of

  • One squadron’s loss is another squadron’s gain

    The 303d Fighter Squadron became the sister squadron to the city of Leeton, Missouri, on April 14, 2018, just one day after Leeton’s previous sister squadron, the 394th Combat Training Squadron, merged with the 13th Bomb Squadron.

  • Air Force Reserve celebrates 70 years

    Lt. Gen. Maryanne Miller, chief of Air Force Reserve and Air Force Reserve Command commander, hosted the Air Force Reserve 70th Birthday celebration with a cake-cutting ceremony in Airman’s Hall at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, April 12. The event also featured Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.

  • 70 Years of Reserve Citizen Airpower

    14 April 1948, the date that the Air Force Reserve was born. But did you know, the Reserve program actually began with the Preparedness Movement and the National Defense Act of 1916 that established the Organized Reserve Corps. Maj. Gen. George Squier proclaimed it to be the most important section

  • Reserve Citizen Airmen support resupply mission

    Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing supported the Space-X Falcon 9 rocket launch during its resupply mission to the International Space Station, April 2.Working closely with NASA’s launch control, the 301st Rescue Squadron’s Airmen, attached to the 920th RQW, patrolled the path of the

  • Thunderbirds aircraft mishap

    A U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot was killed when his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed over the Nevada Test and Training Range April 4, 2018, at approximately 10:30 a.m. during a routine aerial demonstration training flight. The identity of the pilot is being withheld for 24-hours pending next of kin