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  • September news briefs

    News Briefs is a list of unit events and information for 940th Air Refueling Wing personnel. Wing Commander's Call A 940th ARW Commander's Call is set for Sunday, Sept. 9, at the Beale Base Theater. The first session begins at 8 a.m. for the 940th Headquarters element, Operations Group and

  • Predators are out there...but parents can fight back!

    Each year 3,000 to 5,000 children are abducted by non-family members, according to police reports. Most of these are short-term sexually motivated cases. Of these cases, nearly 6 percent, or 200 to 300 cases, are the most serious where the child was murdered, ransomed or taken with the intent to

  • Team Beale road warriors ramp up road repairs

    Ten Airmen from the Air Force Reserve's 940th Civil Engineer Squadron put the pedal to the metal to help complete a road repair project here in record time Aug. 10-13, 2007. The Reservists, assigned to Beale AFB, worked along side their active duty counterparts from the 9th CES in a total force

  • 940th LRS Reservist joins U.S. military women in outreach efforts

    Chief Master Sgt. Jessica Palmer holds up a flash card of a dog and asks the students to repeat the word and then spell it on paper Aug. 15 in Djibouti City, Djibouti. The English Discussion Group at the girls' orphanage allows U.S. military women to teach Djiboutian women how to count, spell and

  • Rules change to require technicians to wear uniforms fulltime

    When people visit an Air Force Reserve Command unit during the week in the coming months, they are likely to see more people in military uniforms. The Air Force changed three of its instructions Aug. 7 to require all air reserve technicians to wear military uniforms rather than civilian clothes

  • It's Home Sweet Home for 940th Air Refueling Wing Deployed Reservists

    That's what the headline read on the front page of the local newspaper when four Reservists assigned to the 940th Logistics Readiness Squadron returned home for their second deployment in support of the Global War on Terror.  Master Sgt. Ian Troxell, Technical Sgt. Doug Snipes, Staff Sgt. Doug Brock

  • Cyber warfare: It’s everyone’s fight

    As the 940th Air Refueling Wing here prepares to convert to an intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) mission, cyberspace security and computer equipment accountability are a serious business for the wing and the Air Force. With information technology and computer hardware evolving

  • Reduction in annual training time affects Reservists

    In the near future, Airmen will finish annual ancillary training online in 90 minutes. They currently spend six times that much time attending briefings. Slated to start as early as Oct. 1, the new program will give Air Force reservists more time to train in other areas during their monthly unit

  • Wing Reservists selected for promotion

    Air Force Reserve Command announced Aug. 2 that five Air Force Reservists from the 940th Air Refueling Wing, Beale Air Force Base, Calif., were selected for promotion.The following majors were selected for promotion to the grade of lieutenant colonel: Barbara Boyer, 940th Aerospace Medicine