May 10, 2021 Alamo Wing executes Alamo-Bravo readiness exercise The 433rd Airlift Wing conducted a deployment readiness training event, Exercise Alamo Bravo, here May 3-7.The exercise enabled leadership to assess its Reserve Citizen Airmen’s deployment and readiness capabilities, so units within the wing can determine strengths and areas of improvement.
May 4, 2021 Air Force transitions from CVR Teams to more secure systems Beginning June 15, Commercial Virtual Remote (CVR) Teams will no longer be an option within the Air Force, and all information stored in that system will go away. As the CVR environment goes away, the Air Force network version of Microsoft Teams – a separate application with slightly different
April 16, 2021 433rd LRS team accelerates change in logistics training Staff Sgt. Taylor Mogford, 433rd Logistics Readiness Squadron individual protective equipment supervisor, here, and his team presented their ideas for revamping logistics training at the virtual 2021 Logistics Officer Association Symposium, April 2. During the 2019 LOA Symposium, the Aether Sprint
April 13, 2021 433rd AW Airmen perform readiness training 433rd Airlift Wing Reserve Citizen Airmen practiced chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear operations here April 10.
April 13, 2021 JBSA Airmen participate in total force exercise The 433rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron trained on responding to a chemical agent exposure situation, here April 8. The training included unregulated patient movement and familiarization with decontamination procedures. The 433rd AES collaborated with the 433rd Civil Engineer Squadron, Joint Base
March 12, 2021 433rd AW starts COVID-19 vaccine distribution Reserve Citizen Airmen with the 433rd Airlift Wing received the COVID-19 vaccine here March 6.
March 4, 2021 PT test pushed to July, updates to scoring, physical components ahead When assessments resume, the three-component fitness test (1.5 mile run, 1 minute of pushups and situps) will be reset with scores calculated on a new three component scoring table. In addition, work is underway to separate scoring into five-year age groups as opposed to the previous ten – for
March 2, 2021 Department of the Air Force to allow shorts for maintainers, updates variety of uniform options Airmen and Guardians will now have more dress and appearance options with upcoming uniform changes to Air Force Instruction 36-2903, Dress and Appearance.
Feb. 18, 2021 Know your Rights for reemployment, USERRA Veterans Employment and Training Service, an agency of the Department of Labor, oversees grants for Veterans seeking employment, maintains transition assistance programs for employment, and it also runs the Compliance and Investigation Division for employment complaints, which is responsible for
Feb. 10, 2021 CSAF talks COVID operations, diversity and inclusion, readiness with Reserve senior leaders COVID-19 operations, diversity and inclusion, and the readiness posture of 70,000-plus Reserve Citizen Airmen were the main topics of discussion when Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. met with Air Force Reserve Command senior leaders at AFRC headquarters here Feb. 8.