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  • CIOR MilComp looking for topflight Airmen

    Are you ready to test your grit? Challenge your warrior ethos? Engage your critical thinking mastery? Lead the charge? If so, the Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers Military Competition (CIOR) is for you!CIOR will be sending out invitations to apply for this growth and leadership

  • Key spouses can be key

    In the past two years, the Air Force has had an alarming increase in its suicide rate. There are many resources available to Airmen in need, but one change that is being worked toward is involving families. Molly Noyes, 940 Air Refueling Wing director of psychological health, created a one-hour

  • Scobee highlights Reserve contributions, future priorities

    Lt. Gen. Richard Scobee, chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve Command, highlighted the contributions of the more than 70,000 Reserve Citizen Airmen during an extremely busy 2020 and shared the Air Force Reserve future priorities during the Reserve Forces Policy Board’s

  • Bio: Example of an endless desire to serve

    Retired Chief Master Sgt. Matt P. Proietti is a four-time recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award which is the highest honor in military journalism. Adding among other things he has undertaken professionally in his career, he accepted an invite extended to him from the 940th Air Refueling Wing to

  • "AGE" of Improvements

    Tanker Town, nestled in between farmland and mountains, is the name Reserve Citizen Airmen who support the flying mission at Beale Air Force, California, refer to when describing the 940th Air Refueling Wing and its fleet of KC-135 “Stratotankers.”  Just over ten years ago in 2009, the 940 Air

  • Taking command coast to coast

    Distance knows no bounds, as was exemplified by Col. Xaviera “Xavi” Slocum, Col. Jacquelyn L. “Katniss” Marty and their guests during a virtual change of command July 11, 2020.The ceremony was streamed from four locations around the United States and viewed by more than 130 people from across the

  • Trailblazers: AETC honors first women pilots in Air Force history

    In honor of the first women who became pilots of the U.S. Air Force, Air Education and Training Command officials renamed the Martin Hall Conference Room, the Trailblazer Room, during a virtual ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph June 29, 2020.

  • A look back at a 940th Air Refueling Wing pioneer

    This first week of May, 25 years ago, Maj. Gen. (then colonel) Betty L. Mullis became the first female officer to command a flying wing by taking charge of the 940th Air Refueling Wing at McClellan Air Force Base, California.Mullis graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 1970. She

  • Commissary, Exchange, MWR expand patron base starting Jan. 1, 2020

    The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs combined efforts to allow Commissary and Exchange use beyond its current patron base. Starting Jan. 1, 2020, Purple Heart recipients, former prisoners of war, all service-connected disabled veterans and caregivers enrolled in the VA's Comprehensive