• Reservists offered TRICARE Reserve Select

    TRICARE Reserve Select, the premium-based health coverage plan for eligible selected Reserve and Participating Individual Ready Reserve members, was enhanced by offering three tiers of coverage. Tier 1 certification started June 1 and is primarily for Reservists who have served in support of a

  • ARPC conducts muster

    The Air Reserve Personnel Center's Personnel Readiness Center conducted a muster here yesterday for 57 individual ready reservists. The IRR Muster Program, mandated by Title 10 United States Code Section 12319, exists to enhance readiness and ensure the Air Force can "reach out and touch" the IRR

  • Retirements application process centralized for Reservists

    Beginning July 31, all eligible members of the Air Force Reserve will submit their retirement application electronically via the virtual Personnel Center Guard and Reserve, a 24/7 customer service Web portal operated by the Air Reserve Personnel Center here. "The ultimate goal is to improve and

  • Back-to-school shopping

    Education is the key to success. That motto is what motivated many of the more than 150 civilian and military employees who attended Wednesday's Education Fair at the Air Reserve Personnel Center and Defense Finance and Accounting Service. "It was helpful because I learned there are a lot of other

  • Making clinic appointment is painless

    Have you called the appointment line at the Buckley Clinic only to be informed that the choices are not compatible with your schedule? Do you wish the capability existed to make an appointment after duty hours for the next day or for a specifi c day or time? Have you called on a Monday and found

  • ‘Push-Pull’ exercise slated for June

    More than 300 Individual Ready Reserve Airmen will participate in a Defense Department-required exercise in June, which conducts an end-to-end test of key mobilization processes and systems. The Air Force will begin "Push-Pull 2007" on June 18. The service will "push" about 320 IRR Airmen, or about

  • Reservists urged to establish virtual accounts

    Air Force Reserve Command officials want officers, senior NCOs and supervisors to establish virtual Personnel Center - Guard/Reserve, or vPC-GR, accounts by April 2. Maj. Gen. Allan R. Poulin, AFRC vice commander, urges all reservists to get a vPC-GR account, by logging on to the vPC-GR Web site.

  • Remarkable return

    Nearly two years after a car accident that left him bound to a wheelchair, retired Col. Dennis Gries returned to the Air Reserve Personnel Center where he had served as Air National Guard adviser to the commander. Now a federal civilian employee and chief of data management for the National Guard

  • 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