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  • Mandatory training keeps you ready to ride

    Motorcycle riding season, for most locations, is almost here. Air Force riders must prepare before the first ride of the season. Preparation involves more than awareness of, and attention to, the mechanics of the motorcycle. Mental and physical preparation of the rider, and up-to-date mandatory

  • 50th Intelligence Squadron Changes Hands

    Lieutenant Colonel Julie Spears took command of the 50th Intelligence Squadron at a ceremony held February 8, on Beale Air Force Base, Calif.The 50 IS provides fully-qualified system support personnel to sustain and maintain the robust communications and computer network required to fully integrate

  • Reserve squadron augments PACAF AFFOR during Keen Edge 2014

    Reservists from the 713th Combat Operations Squadron deployed to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, to support Headquarters Pacific Air Forces during Keen Edge 2014, Jan. 24-31. KE14 is a joint/bilateral exercise designed to increase combat readiness and interoperability between the U.S.

  • Leaving a better Air Force

    Recently, I volunteered to write an article on mentoring, thinking I was pretty good at putting words on paper. If only it were that easy. The honest fact is I'm not really sure how to explain mentoring. After 19 years in the Air Force, I just know it when I see it. My first military experience as a

  • PHAP provides vital assistance to reservists

    "How many of you have deployed, once, twice, three times?" asked Ernest Farmer to 433rd Security Forces airmen packed into a briefing room here, Jan. 25.Farmer, a Psychological Health Advocacy Program outreach specialist with the Air Force Reserve Command, deployed three times as a mental health

  • Air Force Structure commission releases final report

    The National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force has posted its report on the Commission' s website at http://afcommission.whs.mil.The commission visited Tinker AFB, Aug. 20, 2013 with the intention of seeing total force integration in action among active Air Force, Reserve, and Air

  • 940th Wing reservist connects with others through music

    It began with a flourishing and bellowing call to arms. Almost immediately, the brass symphony was accentuated by the deep resonance of a bass drum before being replaced by a playful, orchestral melody.The music flowed together, hinting toward a great conclusion to this "Prelude to Adventure." "I

  • Telling the story

    Lightning flashes deep in the clouds as rain thunders down on the roofs of buildings and creates large puddles on the ground. The electricity zapping through the air is the only natural light source in that area as the moonlight is blocked by the dark clouds above. Time goes on, dawn approaches and

  • New SecAF to Airmen: With change comes opportunity

    The Air Force's most senior leader gave insight into her life and shared career advice with Airmen across the Air Force during her first town hall Jan. 9. Speaking from the Pentagon auditorium, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James spoke about her 32 years of defense experience, passing on