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  • Safety -- Make it a habit for life

    Summertime can be an enjoyable time to relax and recharge with family and friends. These enjoyable summertime activities do not come without hazards. Too often, what was thought to be risk-free fun turns into a not so enjoyable injury or accident. In fact, in recent years, exciting and fun

  • RED HORSE units team up for Charleston project

    A Charleston C-17 Globemaster III approaches to land June 27 while Staff Sgt. Martin Lilland, 556th RED HORSE Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Florida, and Senior Airman Darrien Anderson, 560th RED HORSE Squadron at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, position their lift to hang insulation and panels

  • Protect yourself and your families

    If you're an American, most assuredly you're a potential target in the eyes of terrorists groups around the world. The horrific violence of the Orlando shooting and its aftermath reinforces the knowledge that those in and out of uniform may be a target for the "bad guy." With the summer holidays

  • 315th AES Supports Central Accord 2016

    U.S. Air Force Reserve MSgt. Johnny Gomez (left), an aeromedical evacuation technician with the 315th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, and a member of the Cameroonian Armed Forces transport a simulated casualty during aeromedical evacuation training at this year’s Central Accord exercise in

  • Civil Relief Act protects service members

    Upcoming deployment or PCS? Most of us know all too well the stressors and challenges that come with a move. When it's a last minute tasking or assignment notification the challenges only multiply. Thanks

  • Jackson announces senior leader actions

    The Chief of Air Force Reserve announces the following Senior Leader actions:Major Gen. Michael D. Kim, from Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, Air Force Reserve Command, Robins Air Base, Georgia, to Acting Vice Commander, Air Force Reserve Command, Robins AFB, Georgia. (Temporary assignment

  • Blended retirement system training now available

    Online training designed to educate Airmen about the new Blended Retirement System, the Defense Department system with changes on the current military retirement system, is now available via Joint Knowledge Online course number P-US1330. The course is also available to those without a Common Access

  • Goldfein testifies at CSAF confirmation hearing

    The Senate Armed Services Committee held a confirmation hearing June 16 for Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein on Capitol Hill, following his presidential nomination for the position of the 21st Air Force chief of staff on April 26.