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14 “If you asked me six years ago, [if I knew that] I would have been an Aggressor and go from Blue to Red to Blue, I’d have said ‘no,’” said U.S. Air Force Maj. Christopher “Tuco” Harrison. “But I’m glad I’ve had that experience. It’s been good.”
‘Tuco,’ the 80th Fighter Squadron assistant director of operations and chief of standards and evaluation, has inevitably become a RED FLAG-Alaska veteran after having flown for both Blue and Red air in over 15 RF iterations.
Following his dream to become a pilot in the Air Force, Harrison commissioned out of Tuskegee University Reserve Officers Training Corps detachment on May 8, 2011, the day before his graduation.
When Chief Master Sgt. Michael Johnson got the call to report to Headquarters
Air Force Recruiting Service as part of the early push toward Total Force recruiting, he faced many of the typical questions a Reserve Airman faces when working with the active duty.
“Originally, a lot of the active-duty Airmen thought I was a traditional Reservist and didn’t know about (Active Guard Reserve) status,” said Johnson, AFRS chief of strategic marketing. “Once we were all educated and started to learn the different requirements, Mr. Barry Dickey (AFRS director of strategic marketing), who has many years of leadership experience, made sure we were all equally important. We were able to compare best practices from the Reserve and active duty as we laid out the Total Force strategic plan.”
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May 3, 2020
Founded in 1959, the Golden Knights travel across the nation, perform in freefall demonstrations and compete internationally. At the end of their season, the team travels to the Homestead Air Reserve Base to train and complete their Annual Certification Cycle. Photo Editor Jared Lennon had the opportunity to observe the team train and capture images of their process, from both in the air and on the ground.