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  • According to the EPA, using the right insect repellent can discourage mosquitoes, ticks, and other insects from landing on you and biting you.

    Avoid bug bites on vacation with these TRICARE tips

    It’s common to see an increase of bugs in the summer months, which can be annoying. But more than that, some bugs, like mosquitoes and ticks, carry harmful diseases.
  • Distracted Driving cartoon

    Distracted Driving caused 3,166 deaths in the U.S.

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is working to raise drivers awareness of distracted driving and its potential danger and ultimately reduce the number of accidents it causes.
  • Safe + Sound Week

    Air Force Participates in Safe + Sound Week

    The Air Force Safety Center is asking Airmen to take part in OSHA’s “Take 3 in 30” challenge as part of the Safe + Sound event. The “Take 3 in 30” challenge is simple: take three actions in 30 days to advance workplace safety or health culture.
  • Airmen assigned to the 307th Bombardment Group pose in front of a B-24 Liberator in this undated photo. The Airmen were all part of the same crew that was shot down over the Islands of Palau on August 28, 1944. Nicknamed the Dixon Crew after their aircraft commander and pilot, efforts to recover the remains of several members of the crew are underway. (Courtesy photo)

    Long Way Home for Fallen Long Rangers, Part I

    (Editor’s Note: Ted Mikita is leading a group of private citizens on a mission to recover the remains of several fallen 307th Bombardment Group Airmen. The group believes the bodies of the fallen Long Rangers are still located off the coast of a small Pacific island. The Airmen, known informally as the Dixon crew, sacrificed their lives during
  • Air Force announces the 12 Outstanding Airmen of 2019

    Air Force announces the 12 Outstanding Airmen of 2019

    An Air Force selection board at the Air Force’s Personnel Center considered 36 nominees who represented major commands, direct reporting units, field operating agencies and Headquarters Air Force. The board selected the 12 Airmen based on superior leadership, job performance and personal achievements.
  • Lt. Col. Kenneth Seiver, a 457th Fighter Squadron F-16 pilot and Chief Master Sgt. James Loper, 10th Air Force command chief, take a moment after a familiarization flight at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas on July 12, 2019. The flight gave Loper a hands-on understanding of the jet's capabilities and the squadron’s mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Randall Moose)

    Command chief learns the ropes

  • Staff Sgt. Kevin Greene, Reserve Citizen Airman amputee, scored six gold--two silver—and three bronze medals at the Wounded Warrior Games in Tampa, Florida June 21-30, 2019. Greene is a champion who showed the Air Force Chief of Staff, his commander, the Air Force, his friends, colleagues and family what he is made of, but most of all he showed himself that an injury doesn’t have to limit one as he effortlessly won the gold medals in the 100, 200, 400 and 800 meter dash, indoor rowing, and wheelchair basketball. He won two silvers in sitting volleyball and recumbent bicycling. He also took a bronze in recumbent bicycling. (Photo courtesy Tim Shortt of Florida Today)

    Reserve Citizen Amputee Airman scores 9 medals, new perspective, at Wounded Warrior Games

    Hundreds of spectators, families and service members cheered as Team Air Force defeated three-time defending champions, Team Navy, during the wheelchair basketball gold match in a nail-biting edge-of-your-seat competition, 66-60, June 28, 2019, during the Department of Defense Wounded Warrior Games June 21 – 30 in Tampa Bay, Florida.It was Reserve
  • Lt. Col. Jan Stahl, 706th Fighter Squadron commander, departs for a training mission July 13, 2019, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Red Flag focuses on the application of core missions to include Command and Control, Intelligence Surveillance, Strike and Personnel Recovery and how to work with Coalition counterparts to ensure success. The 706th Fighter Squadron oversees Air Force Reserve Command members assigned to the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center, supporting missions in its 57th Wing, 53rd Wing and 505th Command and Control Wing. Pilots assigned to the 706 FS fly an array of aircraft to include the F-15C, F-15E, F-16, F-22 and F-35 aircraft. To prepare combat air forces, joint and allied crews with realistic training, pilots in the 706 FS operate with the 64th Aggressor Squadron to facilitate operational threat replication, training, and feedback. The Red Flag exercise will continue through July 26, 2019.

    Reserve Fighter Squadron accelerates training in Red Flag 19-3

    In order to provide a realistic training environment of air-to-air combat for allied and coalition forces, some pilots take up the role of being the “enemy”. The 64th Aggressors Squadron acts as professional adversaries for Red Flag at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
  • Senior Airman Tyson Kimber from the 419th Maintenance Squadron greets his daughter, Marley, upon returning home July 19 from a three-month deployment to the United Arab Emirates.

    Reservists home after three months in Middle East

    HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah – A group of F-35A maintainers from the 419th Fighter Wing returned home today after a three-month deployment to Al Dhafra Air Base the United Arab Emirates, where they participated in ongoing operations throughout U.S. Air Forces Central Command.The team deployed alongside active duty counterparts from the 388th FW and
  • In honor of Reserve Citizen Airmen who have been there since the beginning of human spaceflight. Air Force Reservists have flown missions to ensure astronauts would be saved if they had to bail out from a shuttle launch or if an anomaly happened on the pad or over water. Air Force Pararescuemen have gone to the aid of past astronauts throughout history and are set to serve the future of human spaceflight.

    Aiming higher: Airmen contribute to human spaceflight from Apollo to tomorrow

    From Air Force Col. Nick Hague, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, all the way back to Buzz Aldrin, who was a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War, Airmen are among the more than 60% of astronauts who came from the uniformed service.
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