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  • COVID-19: Important Information for Reserve Citizen Airmen

    In an effort to inform Reserve Citizen Airmen and their families with facts on COVID-19 effects, Air Force Reserve leaders encourage all to visit the Air Force’s COVID-19 web page for the latest on the virus and how it is effecting the service. The site contains the latest DoD and Air Force

  • Air Force announces new officer developmental categories

    In an effort to enhance the officer talent management system and enable tailored and agile development, the Air Force is expanding the single Line of the Air Force promotion category into six distinct developmental categories, senior officials here announced Oct. 21.

  • AFRC restructures the enlisted grade force

    On October 1, more than 3,500 enlisted Reserve Citizen Airmen will see upgrades to their grade authorizations.MAJCOM senior enlisted leaders and other key members reviewed, evaluated and restructured the enlisted grade authorizations as part of the Enlisted Grade Council, established in 2016. The

  • Long Ranger life at RAF Fairford

    Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 307th Bomb Wing and their active-duty counterparts from the 2nd BW teamed up as part of the Total Force Enterprise at RAF Fairford, England, Sept. 5-12. The integration of the two units provided support for Exercise Ample Strike 19 and Exercise Cobra Warrior.

  • Running with faith: an Airman’s journey to redemption

    Standing there with a knife in hand and cold-hearted from the most devastating news of his life, Master Sgt. Brandan “Troy” Keel contemplated an irreversible decision. Looking into his wife’s eyes after learning she was pregnant with another man’s baby, he couldn’t fathom living anymore. Suicide, he

  • Earthworms and Air Force produce university researcher

    Think earthworms aren’t important?  Don’t tell that to Master Sgt. Michael Guderyon.  The slimy, little earth-dwellers, along with some help from the Air Force Reserve, literally changed the trajectory of his life. Growing up in the small town of Mamou, Louisiana, Guderyon lacked ambition, direction

  • Center of Influence

    U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 343rd Bomb Squadron give students from Pineville High School and members of the 307th Bomb Wing’s Development and Training Flight an up-close look at the B-52H Stratofortress during a Center of Influence Tour at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, March 3,

  • Lightning fast

    BARKSDALE AFB, La. - The crew of B-52 Stratofortress 60-051 was on final approach Dec. 19, 2017 to Barksdale Air Force Base, La. when they heard an odd sound, like a thud, coming from outside the jet.  All systems remained normal and the crew had no trouble maintaining control of the aircraft,

  • 307th Bomb Wing Maintainers Step Into the Breach

    When Air Force Global Strike Command needed new Conventional Rotary Launchers prepped for the B-52 Stratofortress inventory this year, they only had to look in their own backyard for help. The CRL is a complex, new weapons platform, but Reserve Citizen Airmen of the 307th Maintenance Squadron