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  • Leaders advise commission not to merge AFR and ANG

    Air Force Reserve leaders testified to the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force that merging the Air Force Reserve with the Air National Guard would create little value and numerous adverse impacts - detracting from the broader goal of improving the Air Force structure.Appointed by

  • myPers Online

    Online Personnel Services myPers websiteThe Air Force online personnel services website, known as myPers, recently rolled out and is a total force source for personnel information and services.As a regular Air Force, Guard, Reserve or civilian employee, use myPers to get your questions answered and

  • West Virginia Air Guard crew honored for saving plane after bird strike

    Quick thinking and exemplary teamwork allowed an aircrew from the 167th Airlift Wing to land safely after their Air Force C-5 Galaxy aircraft sustained severe damage to its engines as a result of multiple bird strikes during takeoff.The West Virginia Air National Guard members received the Earl T.

  • Leadership Changes for the Oregon Air National Guard

    Members of the Oregon Air National Guard assembled at the Anderson Readiness Center in Salem, Ore., on Sept. 8, 2013, to observe the change of command ceremony for the Oregon Air National Guard, as Brig. Gen. Steven Gregg presented the colors to Brig. Gen. Michael Stencel. Prior to his promotion to

  • JSTARS trains in world-wide exercise from the comfort of home

    Team JSTARS spent the week participating in a worldwide training exercise called Coalition Virtual Flag 13-4 without a single E-8C Joint STARS aircraft leaving the ground.During the weeklong exercise, aviators from the 461st Air Control Wing and exercise planners from the 116th Air Control Wing, put

  • Air Guard celebrate Air Force birthday

    Members of the Air National Guard celebrated the Air Force's 66th birthday Tuesday at the Air National Guard Readiness Center here."We are celebrating 66 years of excellence and outstanding service," said Col. Eric W. Mann, ANGRC vice commander. "For the last 66 years, America has had an able sentry

  • Oregon Airmen provide care during Pacific Angel Mission

    Five members of the 142nd Fighter Wing Medical Group traveled nearly half way around the world to take part in Pacific Angel 2013-04 in Sri Lanka, July 28 - Aug 18, 2013. Pacific Angel is a United States Pacific Air Forces humanitarian mission sponsored by United States Pacific Command, which

  • A life of service

    It's 1969, Richard M. Nixon is in the Oval Office, "The Brady Bunch" is on television, the hippies are at Woodstock and Neil Armstrong is the first person to set foot on the moon.In 1969, the men and women of the armed forces are at war in Vietnam while our nation is at war with itself, its civil