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  • ACE Solo Flight Program concludes at historic Tuskegee Airmen airfield

    The Air Force concluded its Aviation-Character-Education (A.C.E.) Solo Flight Program, lead by Air Force Recruiting Service, after graduating the final class, July 12, 2019, in Tuskegee, Alabama.“It’s impressive to see these incredible students developing into young leaders and aviators,” said Maj.

  • One door closes, another opens for Hinesville Air Force sisters

    The Rountree sisters of Hinesville, Georgia, have more than 40 years of combined Air Force service and have been serving together since 2003. That’s about to change as one sister prepares to retire and the other takes on a new challenge.The daughters of Joe and Joevelyn Rountree, Jr., Chief Master

  • A1C with PhD now a 2Lt

    In December 2018, the Air Force published a story about an airman first class with a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry. The article went somewhat viral within Air Force circles, with many social media users questioning why someone with a doctoral degree would choose to enlist rather than earn a

  • Air Force Recruiting Sets the Pace at Indy 500

    The Air Force brand was on full display at the Indianapolis 500 auto race Sunday as Air Force Recruiting sponsored the No. 25 car driven by Conor Daly and was an associate sponsor for the Andretti Autosport team and its four drivers, including Alexander Rossi, who placed second in the race.More than

  • Eyes Above the Horizon Inspires Students

    Over 65 students from Jim Ned, Wylie, Abilene and Clyde independent school districts, ROTC and Civil Air Patrol participated in the Eyes Above the Horizon outreach event at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, May 18.Eyes Above the Horizon is an opportunity for children from traditionally under-represented

  • Total Force Recruiting scores knockout with Professional Fighters League

     In a combined recruiting effort, Air Force Reserve Command and Air Force Special Operations recruiting teamed up and scored a knockout at the Professional Fighters League season debut at the Nassau Coliseum May 9, 2019.The tag-team effort is something that will become the norm in the future as Air

  • Air Force transitions enlisted specialty, grows Special Tactics capabilities

    Enlisted Airmen have been analyzing weather since the very beginning of American military flight in 1917. Decades of hard-earned experience led to Special Operations Weather Team Airmen being designated with their own Air Force Specialty Code in 2008.By combining the core skills of Special Operation

  • Keeping the family tradition alive

    A very reliable source for recruiting has long been recruiting people who have a family history of serving. Pentagon data showed in 2016 that 80 percent of recent troops came from a family where at least one parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, sibling or cousin has also worn their nation’s

  • Air Force military ambassador saves reveler during Fiesta parade

    In a scene that might have been drawn straight from a Hollywood movie, Tech. Sgt. Ryan Fillweber leaped into the San Antonio River to save a woman who had fallen in during the annual Texas Cavaliers River Parade held April 22 in downtown San Antonio.