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  • This week’s Up Close features Staff Sgt. Gerita Glenn, 94th Security Forces Squadron base defense operations controller. Up Close is a series spotlighting individuals around Dobbins Air Reserve Base. (U.S. Air Force graphic/Staff Sgt. Andrew Park)

    UP CLOSE: Staff Sgt. Gerita Glenn

    This week’s Up Close features Staff Sgt. Gerita Glenn, 94th Security Forces Squadron base defense operations controller. Up Close is a series spotlighting individuals around Dobbins Air Reserve Base. WHERE ARE YOU FROM?Norfolk, Va. WHY DID YOU JOIN?I wanted to be a part of something bigger than myself. Originally I started off wanting to be a

  • Multi-domain career opportunity available for AF officers

    The first opportunity for officers to enter a new Air Force career field is commencing summer of 2019 during a training that will prepare officers to take on responsibilities at air operations centers across the globe.. The career field is described as command and control operational-level warfighting, where officers will have a variety of tasks,
  • Hurricane Michael created an estimated 15 million pounds of scrap and more than 450 uninhabitable buildings at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. DLA Disposition Services personnel scrap disposal coordination at the installation may last as long as six months.

    Hurricane recovery support ongoing at Tyndall AFB

    Area disposition personnel are putting in extra work to help Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base make the speediest recovery possible from the devastation of Hurricane Michael.
  • Senior Airman Damian Dillett, a 94th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron aircraft engine technician, poses for a photo in a maintenance hangar at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. Dec. 9, 2018. Dillett recently graduated from the Cobb County Police Academy in Georgia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Andrew Park)

    Dobbins maintainer fulfills dream, graduates from police academy

    DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Ga. – Ask anyone what they wanted to be when they grew up and chances are at least a few will say a police officer or a military member. Senior Airman Damian Dillett, a 94th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron aircraft engine technician, decided early on to pursue both dreams. “I always knew I wanted to become a police officer
  • This week’s Up Close features Mr. Bernard Parkinson, 94th Communications Squadron IT specialist. Up Close is a series spotlighting individuals around Dobbins Air Reserve Base. (U.S. Air Force graphic/Staff Sgt. Andrew Park)

    UP CLOSE: Mr. Bernard Parkinson

    This week’s Up Close features Mr. Bernard Parkinson, 94th Communications Squadron IT specialist. Up Close is a series spotlighting individuals around Dobbins Air Reserve Base. WHERE ARE YOU FROM?Grove Town, Manchester, JamaicaWHY DID YOU JOIN?I was originally going to join the Army, but when I went to the Army recruiting station, he wasn’t there,
  • Vietnam Veteran retires after 60 years of combined military and federal service

    Vietnam Veteran retires after 60 years of combined military and federal service

    If this veteran’s career could be described in two words, they would most likely be “service and commitment.” Dallas Godfrey, 94th Logistics Readiness Squadron transportation accountable officer and U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. (Ret), retired from Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, Dec. 31 with 34 years of military service and 30 years of
  • This week's Monday Motivation comes from Winston Churchill: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." (U.S. Air Force graphic/Staff Sgt. Andrew Park)

    #mondaymotivation: Jan 7

    This week's Monday Motivation is from Winston Churchill:"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."  
  • This week’s Up Close features A1C Ashley Henderson, 94th AMXS crew chief. Up Close is a series spotlighting individuals around Dobbins Air Reserve Base. (U.S. Air Force graphic/Staff Sgt. Andrew Park)

    UP CLOSE: A1C Ashley Henderson

    This week’s Up Close features A1C Ashley Henderson, 94th AMXS crew chief. Up Close is a series spotlighting individuals around Dobbins Air Reserve Base. WHERE ARE YOU FROM?Atlanta, Ga. WHY DID YOU JOIN?I felt like it was a good start to do something different. It was a fresh start, career wise. I’ve never done anything with mechanics before, but I
  • Brig. Gen. Ronald Jolly Sr., commander of the 82nd Training Wing, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, engages with students attending a panel discussion on ‘Leading the Air Force Family’ during a Leader Development Course for Squadron Command session, Nov. 5, 2018, at Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Along with Jolly, the panel consisted of a wing command chief, squadron commander and first sergeant. (U.S. Air Force photo by William Birchfield)

    Air University’s new leader development course helps squadron commanders ‘thrive’

    Air University’s newest course will help future squadron commanders thrive – not just survive – in command positions. Structured as a foundational course that builds on leadership experiences and education, the new Leader Development Course for Squadron Command equips potential commanders with the tools to create more “effective, adaptive and lethal” squadrons.
  • AFRC Yellow Ribbon program

    AFRC Yellow Ribbon program celebrates 10th anniversary

    Organizers with the Air Force Reserve Command’s flagship deployer support program celebrated its 10th anniversary training event here over the weekend.
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