• ARPC makes progress improving system reliability

    Systems, such as the virtual Personnel Center-Guard and Reserve, experience severe spikes in personnel program usage during the first weekend of every month as Citizen Airmen and Guardsmen perform required duty. As a result of these spikes, vPC-GR crashed almost without fail. Such hindrances have

  • ARPC hosts Team Buckley quarterly awards

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials hosted the Team Buckley quarterly awards ceremony for the first time here Aug. 8, 2014.Brig. Gen. Samuel C. Mahaney, ARPC commander and Chief Master Sgt. Ruthe Flores, ARPC command chief, personally congratulated the following 2nd quarter award winners:Junior

  • Reserve Affairs leaders visit ARPC

    Daniel Sitterly, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, John Fedrigo, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force Reserve Affairs and Airman Readiness, and Col. Petra McGregor, senior military assistant of Manpower and Reserve Affairs, visited with

  • Immunization Awareness Month Kicks Off in August

    August is National Immunization Awareness Month,and while vaccines are important for people of all ages, they're vital tothe Defense Department's fighting force, the director of the MilitaryVaccine Agency, Vaccine Healthcare Centers Networks said.Army Col. (Dr.) Margaret Yacovone emphasized that

  • Enlisted leaders discuss PEP Board

    Check out our newest video to hear the perspectives and philosophies from the Air Force Reserve Command and Air Reserve Personnel Center command chiefs regarding the Promotion Enhancement Program. (U.S. Air Force video/Quinn Jacobson)

  • USAFA reservist takes home national award

    An Air Force Reserve clinical psychologist with the Peak Performance Center here recently received with the 2014 Disabled American Veterans National Commanders Award for the top Veterans Health Administrator.The Air Force core values affect everything Lt. Col. David Tharp does, and he credits them

  • Air Force to change enlisted evaluations, promotions

    Air Force officials announced a series of sweeping changes to the Enlisted Evaluation System and Weighted Airman Promotion System July 31.The changes are intended to ensure the Air Force truly makes job performance the driving factor and will be implemented incrementally beginning in August 2014 and

  • AF implements career intermission pilot program

    Up to 40 active-duty, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard officers and enlisted members who meet eligibility requirements will be offered between one and three years of partially-paid time out of uniform to focus on personal and professional pursuits under the Career Intermission Pilot Program,

  • TRICARE Nurse Advice Line offers health care guidance

    TRICARE beneficiaries in the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii can now access the Nurse Advice Line to receive health care guidance and advice.The service, launched in April 2014, offers professional help by phone at a moment's notice, officials said."Our mission at Walter Reed National Military

  • ARPC welcomes new vice commander

    Col. Sean McElhaney Pahia had a shocking moment when Maj. Gen. Peggy Poore, Air Force Personnel Center commander, told him he was going to be assigned here as the Air Reserve Personnel Center's new vice commander."There was that long pause, like, 'Did you just tell me what I think you told me?'"