By Andre Trinidad, 943rd Rescue Group / Published May 18, 2021
An HH-60 Pave Hawk takes off form a temporary Forward Operating Base as part of Exercise Northern Assessment. Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 943rd Rescue Group successfully completed training scenarios that incorporated highly mobile, temporary facilities in remote, austere locations while still performing combat search and rescue operations from 30 April through 3 May. Exercise Northern Assessment was safely conducted using current CDC protocols and all service members were fully vaccinated. (U.S. Air Force photo by Andre Trinidad)
920th Rescue Wing Commander and 943rd Rescue Group Commanders observe Exercise Northern Assessment activities from an HH-60 Pave Hawk. Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 943rd Rescue Group successfully completed training scenarios that incorporated highly mobile, temporary facilities in remote, austere locations while still performing combat search and rescue operations fro
On Feb. 6, 2021, Senior Airman Louis Shackelford’s civilian and military worlds collided.
“I recently received my first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during the February Unit Training Assembly (UTA). It was a surreal experience. I was sitting in my Air Force medical unit, in uniform, being injected with a life-saving vaccine brought to fruition by experts and scientists at my civilian job,” Shackelford said.
“It was a beautiful collision of the worlds in which I exist. I cannot remember ever feeling prouder to be both an airman and public health research professional.”
Every month, as Shackelford, an aerospace medical technician assigned to the 446th Aerospace Medicine Squadron (AMDS) here, puts it, there is a Friday in which he is surrounded by brilliant scientists, researchers, and public health professionals with too many letters behind their names to keep track of at his civilian job as external relations project manager at the COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoV
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By Capt. Marquel Coaxum, 315th Airlift Wing Public Affairs / Published April 12, 2021
Capt. Sherri Finleyson, a nurse assigned to the 315th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, administers a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the 628th Air Base medical clinic here during the reserve training weekend April 11, 2021. The 315th Airlift Wing’s distribution of the vaccine supports its continued efforts to stop the pandemic and maintain the health and safety of airmen. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bobby Pilch)
Medical personnel assigned to the 315th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, prepare to administer COVID-19 vaccinations at the base clinic here during the duty weekend March 6, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bobby Pilch/released)
By Senior Airman Julia Ford, 913th Airlift Group / Published April 12, 2021
During the visit, Chief Master Sgt. Travon Dennis, Command First Sergeant Functional Manager, met with Airmen who were qualifying on the M14 rifle for deployment readiness, April 10, 2021, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. During the visit Reserve Citizen Airmen highlighted the 913th Airlift Group and how they integrate training with the installation partners. (U.S. Air Force Reserve photo by Maj. Ashley Walker)
Chief Master Sgt. Timothy C. White Jr., Command Chief Master Sergeant of Air Force Reserve Command, was able to test out an M320 grenade launcher module while visiting the installation’s combat arms training and maintenance personnel, April 10, 2021, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. During the visit Reserve Citizen Airmen highlighted the 913th Airlift Group and how they integrate training with the installation partners. (U.S. Air Force Reserve photo by Maj. Ashley Walker)