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  • Airmen arrive to train with European allies

    Total Force Integration is at the next level.Approximately 200 Reservists, Air National Guard and active duty Airmen with eight A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, landed at Amari Air Base, Estonia Aug. 22.  The A-10s from the 303d Fighter Squadron, which falls under the

  • The Thinking Wingman

    There is no question that our Air Force culture evolves over time. Some of us, fossilized Airmen, might say it evolves too quickly.  But nowhere in our ethos has there been a more profound, positive evolution than in our Wingman code. As a young fighter pilot of the Reagan era, it was forcefully

  • UEI Complete -- "EFFECTIVE"

    CONGRATULATIONS!  Our first Unit Effectiveness Inspection, part of the new Air Force Inspection System, is complete and the Air Force Reserve Command's Inspector General assessed our Wing as "Effective."  The capstone event culminated an outstanding two year effort by our Total Force team.  This

  • Wait! Put that phone down

    Flash back to 1996, a young Airman walks into his team-building class. As he makes his way to the waiting area, other Airmen are standing around making introductions and carrying on in conversation. As the clock nears the starting time, the members already have an idea of who is who and where they

  • Happy 4th of July from AFRC

    Fellow Citizen Airmen,This is the perfect time of year to reflect on the history of our great country. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence, cutting the colonies' ties to the British Crown and initiating democracy. Their bold leadership continues

  • Air Force intel pros use Web-based remotely piloted aircraft application

    Using existing technology, a team of Air Force intelligence experts have developed a new Web-based program that saves lives and money, while enhancing the "eyes in the sky," the centerpiece of the $80 billion remotely piloted aircraft industry.On June 24, the innovators received the U.S. Geospatial

  • Hill EOD reservist helps excavate Vietnam-era crash site

    Senior Master Sgt. Eric Eberhard, 419th Explosive Ordnance Disposal, is deployed as part of a recovery team tasked to excavate a Laos crash site from the Vietnam era.The two-month deployment is a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency mission, which includes day-to-day operations to research, identify,

  • Airmen prepare to train with Baltic allies

    Fifteen years into the 21st Century, the U.S. Air Force, Reserve and National Guard have moved away from training as three separate forces and have moved toward Total Force Integration where all work and train together to form one team.  One Air Force Reserve unit is taking that concept to another

  • 442d Civil Engineers house Navajo

    The Navajo Reservation near Gallup, New Mexico, lives with extraordinary poverty.The Southwest Indian Foundation estimates nearly 60 percent of the population lives below the poverty level- with average per capita income of about $6,000.Civil Engineers from the 442d Fighter Wing spent two weeks

  • Macaulay takes command 442d Operations Group

    Col. James "Jimbo" Macaulay took command of the 442d Fighter Wing Operations Group from Brig. Gen. Hubert "Hubie" Hegtvedt, 442d FW commander, at a change of command ceremony here June 7. Macaulay supervises flying operations for 27 A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft.