• Buckley Equal Opportunity staff to serve ARPC employees

    Buckley Air Force Base's Equal Opportunity office begins serving Air Reserve Personnel Center employees March 2. "This is an important right and service for our employees," said Col. Jerry Costello, ARPC commander. "Using Buckley gives them access to a fully staffed office that has the resources to

  • Calling your Service Center

    Commanders- CALLING YOUR SERVICE CENTER (ANG, AFRC) - The Total Force Service Center shared 800 number is 800-525-0102. Customers are now routed through a menu to their counselors. They choose Option 3 for Air Force Reserve, and Option 4 for Air National Guard. From overseas, customers dialing

  • New ARPC commander announced

    Reserve officials announced today that Col. Kevin E Pottinger will be the new commander of the Air Reserve Personnel Center here. He will assume command from Col. Jerry Costello, ARPC's interim commander. Colonel Pottinger has served as the current commander of Air Force Reserve Command's 301st

  • Coming Feb. 22: single 800 number for all Airmen

    Members of the total force -- regular Air Force, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, civilian and retired Airmen -- are on line to have one central phone number for help with their personnel questions starting at 5 p.m. Central Standard Time Feb. 22. Members of the Air Force community should call

  • Policy changes enacted with 2008 colonel promotion board

    The Air Force Reserve recently completed the first of a two-phase change for promotion to colonel from three years to four years time-in-grade requirement. The change arose from recommendations of a July 2006 general officer-led promotion working group taking effect with the October 2008 colonel

  • ARPC 'Pushes' retirees for upcoming exercise

    For the first time, retired active-duty majors and master sergeants are being solicited to participate in the biennial "Push-Pull" exercise, which conducts an end-to-end test of key mobilization systems and processes. As part of what's called the "pretrained individual manpower," or PIM, the regular

  • Cadre, training teams provide face-to-face service

    The Air Reserve Personnel Center cadre continues to deliver the latest in personnel news and information directly to Guard and Reserve Airmen. In 2008, cadre team members spoke to more than 9,000 Guardsmen and reservists at 37 conferences, and unit and combined training assemblies nationwide. "We're

  • Deployment history to be removed from promotion briefs

    Air Force officials here recently announced that deployment history data will be deleted from duty qualification briefs for officer selection and preselection and from senior noncommissioned officer evaluation briefs. This total-force initiative will apply to all active-duty members, Reserve and