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  • The Air Force Wounded Warrior Program (AFW2) is excited for Warriors to obtain their best at the 7th annual Air Force Trials! Given the current COVID–19 environment AFW2 will execute a virtual Air Force Trials (AFT) this year hosting virtual competitions, athlete classification and Warrior Games team selection.

    Air Force Trials 2021: A Virtual Experience

    [Editor's Note: You can download and read the full memo here.]The anticipation for how Air Force Trials 2021 will be conducted can now cease. After a lot of consideration, deliberation, and cross talk between multiple organizations the decision has been made to have the 7th Annual Air Force Trials go fully virtual. Although this is not what many of
  • Reserve Citizen Airmen and loved ones with the 514th Air Mobility Wing, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., and the 459th Air Refueling Wing, Joint Base Andrews, Md. participate in the first fully-virtual Air Force Reserve Command Yellow Ribbon Program event, October 24 to 25, 2020.

    Virtual or in-person: Yellow Ribbon events benefit deploying Airmen and their loved ones

    Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the success of the Air Force Reserve Yellow Ribbon Program could be summarized by one key statistic—more than 95 percent of attendees said Yellow Ribbon events benefited their family. This success was built on in-person events where deployers, their loved ones, leaders and subject-matter experts gathered in a conference-like setting for two days of training, education and networking on people-centric topics related to Reserve deployments. But when coronavirus shut down most military travel, the Yellow Ribbon team was forced to change their ways.
  • Independent Racial Disparity Review

    Department of the Air Force releases findings on racial disparity review

    The Department of the Air Force released its report on the findings of an Air Force Inspector General independent review into racial disparity Dec. 21. The full report is available for download on AF.mil.
  • Air Force Reserve Coloring Book, 2nd Edition, released in December 2020 by the Air Force Reserve Command Office of History and Heritage.

    AFRC History Office releases 2nd edition of AFR coloring book

    The Air Force Reserve Command's Office of History and Heritage released a second edition of the AFR Coloring Book online this month. This recently released edition, created by Tech. Sgt. Katie "Kat" Justen, AFRC HO Combat & Heritage artist, captures a snapshot in time of today’s Reserve members in various mission sets, and although the book does

  • 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 quarterly meeting December 9. Throughout his speech, Scobee underscored the Air Force Reserve’s ability to deliver 20% of the Air Force’s overall operational and strategic capability with just 3% of the budget. He focused on the essential work Reserve Citizen Airmen accomplished with regard to the Department of Defense COVID-19 response and natural disaster support during 2020.
  • Air Force policy promotes tobacco-free environments (U.S. Air Force graphic by Steve Thompson)

    Promote tobacco-free living!

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths in the U.S. annually, including more than 41,000 deaths from second-hand smoke. Smoking is also the leading cause of preventable deaths and affects nearly every organ in the body. Tobacco use is also very expensive. In 2014, the Department of Defense spent almost $1.8 billion in associated medical and non-medical costs.
  • Flu vaccine graphic

    Preventing seasonal flu

    The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by the influenza viruses that infect the nose, throat, and sometimes the lungs.

  • Command notifies Reserve Citizen Airmen of Unclassified Information changes

    The Defense Department’s new Controlled Unclassified Information program stood up in July 2020 with the release of DoD Instruction 5200.48, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). The program ensures standardized identification, safeguarding, transmission, storage, dissemination, destruction and records management for CUI used across all government agencies.
  • Senior Airman Pamela Restrepo, an aeromedical evacuation technician with the 927th Air Refueling Wing, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida stands near a crosswalk on Bayshore Boulevard December 5, 2020. One month earlier, on her way home from drill, Restrepo stopped to aid a boy who was struck by a car. “Being a medic, I am on duty 24/7; it comes to use anytime, anyplace not just while I am at work,” said Restrepo. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Tiffany Emery)

    927th ARW Medic stabilizes boy struck by car

    Around 7:00p.m. on Nov. 6, 2020, Senior Airman Pamela Restrepo, an aeromedical evacuation technician with the 927th Air Refueling Wing, was driving home after a long day on Reserve Duty. She had finished her technical training a year prior and that night her training kicked in when she saw something out of the ordinary.
  • In order to provide relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, a Presidential Memorandum was issued on August 8, 2020 and guidance followed from Internal Revenue Service on August 28, 2020, to temporarily defer Social Security (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI)) tax withholdings. This change is effective through the end of the 2020 calendar year. (U.S. Air Force graphic/Master Sgt. Ben Mota)

    Order Gives Employees Social Security Withholding Tax Deferral, Not Forgiveness

    President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order on August 8 that allows employers to defer withholding Social Security taxes.
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