• Editorial: Exercise, exercise, exercise

    Exercises are an important component of the active-component’s drive to remain combat-ready and IMAs often play a part. Whether you’re an IMA performing your AT and IDTs each year to support your owning organization’s exercise or you volunteer to help elsewhere (thank you for your volunteerism!),

  • Intelligence officer finds research is for the birds

    For many, an Antarctic cruise to spend time with penguins is just a dream. For Capt. Hila Levy, it’s all in a day’s work. Levy is an Air Force Reserve Individual Mobilization Augmentee intelligence officer at the Joint Reserve Intelligence Support Element, Royal Air Force Molesworth, United Kingdom.

  • Up-to-date personal data key to timely travel payments

    In order to receive timely travel reimbursement and mailings of credit balance refund checks from CitiBank, it is important for Individual Reservists to ensure their mailing address and banking information is up-to-date in the Defense Travel System. To review and update a DTS profile, members should

  • June HQ RIO newsletter for IMAs now available

    The June 2016 edition of the Readiness Report newsletter for Individual Mobilization Augmentees is now available for digital download. The Readiness Report is the official newsletter of Headquarters Individual Reservist Readiness and Integration Organization and is designed to deliver news and

  • CSAF reading list author speaks at Pease ANG Base

    Airmen from Pease Air National Guard Base, Newington, New Hampshire, gathered in an auditorium to hear from the biographer of Medal of Honor recipient Chief Master Sgt. Richard “Dick” Etchberger, June 10. About 20 members from the New Hampshire ANG’s 157 Air Refueling Wing and its active-duty

  • “Just let me serve the country that has given me everything”

    When Staff Sgt. Olorunyomi Martins talks about the debt of gratitude he owes to his adoptive country, one can’t help believing the American Dream is alive and well. A native of southwest Nigeria, Martins arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in 2003 with $750 in his pocket. He felt like a

  • May HQ RIO newsletter for IMAs now available

    The May 2016 edition of the Readiness Report newsletter for Individual Mobilization Augmentees is now available for digital download. The Readiness Report is the official newsletter of Headquarters Individual Reservist Readiness and Integration Organization and is designed to deliver news and

  • Airmen provide care to shooting victim

    In the fall of 2015, a Saturday night dinner outing during 7-level paralegal school found two Airmen testing their self-aid buddy care training in the real world.Tech. Sgt. Amanda Knotts and Tech. Sgt. Brandon Lancaster had just arrived in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, for dinner on the night of

  • New travel guide availabe for Individual Reservists

    A new version of the Travel Companion for Individual Reservists is now available for download from the HQ RIO website.The Travel Companion for IRs is an Individual Mobilization Augmentee's best friend when it comes time to travel and submit travel documentation. It has information and step-by-step

  • Individual Reserve Airmen of 2015 announced

    The Headquarters Individual Reservist Readiness and Integration Organization recently announced the 2015 IR Airmen of the Year.   The award program recognizes the accomplishments of the outstanding Airmen augmenting active-duty forces and government agencies world-wide."The quality of the