• Giving back

    In 1987, Chief Master Sgt. Fatima Jones was a senior airman, a 24-year old newlywed and mother of a 6- month old boy. She and her husband were stationed at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, and had just purchased a new house when she received tragic news - her younger brother who lived in the

  • Online capability allows Air Guard to submit electronically

    Eligible members of the Air National Guard on Thursday joined their Reserve counterparts in submitting retirement applications electronically via the virtual Personnel Center - Guard and Reserve. This is the second Guard-specific capability added to the 24-hour customer service Web portal operated

  • Employees seek to improve writing

    The Air Reserve Personnel Center Professional Development Program team continues to bring employees career enhancement opportunities. More than 100 employees from the Air Reserve Personel Center and the 4th Manpower Requirements Squadron attended the latest program seminar, Principles of Effective

  • New official Air Force message system coming

    The Automated Message Handling System will replace the Defense Messaging System, which can allow spam and junk mail to come through with official messages, officials said. As part of this transition the Air Force will turn off "organizational mailboxes" possibly as early as June. "The new system,

  • Guard capability launches Monday

    Air National Guardsmen will begin using the virtual Personnel Center - Guard and Reserve on Monday when the system launches the first Guard-Reserve on Monday when the system launches the first Guard-specific capability. "The ultimate goal is to improve and streamline how we deliver personnel

  • Better business

    Officials at the Air Reserve Personnel Center continue to seek ways to improve personnel services for the Air Reserve Component.More than 50 business executives visited ARPC on Thursday to gather information about the services ARPC provides. The visit was part of the Air Force's Request for

  • Post Report: A look at ARPC's contact center

    Working for the government, we all know the potential for getting lost in a maze of acronyms and offi ce symbols. ARPC has its own set of sometimes confusing abbreviations and directorate jargon.     But the more knowledge we have about what makes our organization work, the better service we'll be

  • Personnelists train to support emergency, disaster response

    Officials at the Air Reserve Personnel Center emphasized the importance of military personnelists during an emergency when they conducted Personnel Support for Contingency Operations training Jan. 25. "Our primary goal is to facilitate these Airmen grasping the importance of their role to an overall

  • Guard general visits ARPC

    In her efforts to improve Force Integration amongst the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve and active duty, Maj. Gen. Rita Aragon, Air National Guard assistant to the deputy chief of staff for manpower and personnel, visited the Air Reserve Personnel Center on Jan. 19. "My biggest goal right now

  • ARPC officer first to receive award using new online process

    When officials at the Air Reserve Personnel Center launched the latest online personnel capability to Reservists worldwide, they didn't know it would be one of their own that would be first to benefit from it.Capt. Karrie Bracken, who worked as ARPC's contracting officer from July 1 to Nov. 30,