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May 15, 2019
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
May 13, 2019
Air Force takes part in Transcontinental Railroad’s 150th anniversary

Air Force recruiters and volunteers were among the thousands who gathered May 10-11 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad at Golden Spike National Historic Park.
May 13, 2019
Air Force’s top recruiter climbs even higher

In what’s believed to be a first, Air Force Recruiting Service’s top recruiter received an incentive flight with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds as a congratulations for all of his hard work.Master Sgt. Gervacio Maldonado, a former Health Professions recruiter and now flight chief with the 318th
May 13, 2019
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
May 7, 2019
Reserve Citizen Airman takes out-of-this-world oath

The Air Force Reserve’s newest flight surgeon was sworn into service by an astronaut flying at 17,500 miles per hour aboard the International Space Station 210 miles above the Earth on May 4.
May 7, 2019
First active duty Air Force Recruiting office in 11 years opens in U.S. Virgin Islands

For the first time in 11 years, individuals from the U.S. Virgin Islands will now have direct access to an active duty Air Force recruiter on the island of St. Croix.On April 7, 2019, Air Force Recruiting Service commander, Brig. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, and Tech. Sgt. Shayne Vander Kuyl, 333rd
May 2, 2019
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
April 26, 2019
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.
April 18, 2019
From raceway to runway

Airmen assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing and Air Combat Command F-16 Viper Demonstration Team hosted Conor Daly, Air Force Honda race car driver, and Townsend Bell, sports commentator and professional race car driver, April 15-16.
April 18, 2019
Military trailblazer speaks at Breaking Barriers event

Brig. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, Air Force Recruiting Service commander, shared her story, leadership lessons and recruiting service challenges with members of Joint Base San Antonio at a Breaking Barriers event April 10 at the Fleenor Auditorium at JBSA-Randolph.