About the Air Force Reserve

Mission Statement

"To provide Citizen Airmen to defend the United States and protect its interest through air and space power"

What We Do

The Air Force Reserve is an integral and essential part of our country's presence in air and space. As a Federal force, the Air Force Reserve contributes daily to the Air Force mission and is actively involved in Air Force operations around the world. On any given day, it is not uncommon for thousands of Reservists to be on duty at locations throughout the world. About half of them directly support ongoing contingencies.

The primary charge of the Air Force Reserve is readiness, providing the nation's leaders with Air Force Reserve units and people who are trained and ready for duty at a moment's notice. Seemingly simple on the surface, this is a task of significant proportions.

HEADQUARTERS AIR FORCE RESERVE COMMAND

Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command, located at Robins Air Force Base, Ga., ensures its three numbered air forces, 36 wings and other subordinate units are prepared to accomplish their Total Force missions. The command supervises the unit-training program, provides logistics support and ensures combat readiness.

A Reserve lieutenant general in active duty status commands AFRC, and is located at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. In additional to being the AFRC commander, he is also the Chief of the Air Force Reserve who serves as principal adviser on Reserve matters to the Air Force chief of staff. At Robins AFB, a major general serves as AFRC's vice commander and a brigadier general serves as the assistant vice commander.

There are 1,085 people stationed at Headquarters AFRC. The staff incorporates a mix of active duty Air Force members, Air Force reservists on extended active duty, air reserve technicians and civil service employees to perform the mission. This combination includes 50 percent civilian employees, 19 percent active duty personnel, 13 percent Active Guard Reserve members, 9 percent traditional reservists, 8 percent Air Reserve Technicians, and 1 percent Individual Mobilization Augmentees. They provide the headquarters with active duty Air Force experience, reservist perspective and civil service continuity.

Also collocated with the Headquarters AFRC is the 951st Reserve Support Squadron, The Band of the U.S. Air Force Reserve, the AFRC Recruiting Squadron and the Readiness Management Group.

The headquarters staff and AFRC members assigned to Robins Air Force Base account for an economic impact of more than $108 million.

AFRC became the ninth major command of the Air Force, Feb. 17, 1997, as a result of Title XII - Reserve Forces Revitalization - in Public Law 104-201, the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 1997. Previously, the Air Force Reserve was an Air Force field-operating agency established April 14, 1948. The headquarters was established Aug. 1, 1968, replacing the discontinued Continental Air Command as the Reserve field command.

Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command Public Affairs
255 Richard Ray Blvd. Ste. 137
Robins Air Force Base, GA 31098

AFRC Units

Air Force Reserve Command has 36 flying wings and three associate flying groups that are equipped with their own aircraft or share aircraft with an active duty unit. One space group shares the satellite control mission with the active air force and other agencies. Additionally, there are more than 620 mission support units in AFRC, equipped and trained to provide a wide range of services, including medical and aeromedical evacuation, aerial port, civil engineering, security force, intelligence, communications, mobility support, maintenance, transportation operations and many others.

4th Air Force

• 4th Air Force, March Air Reserve Base, Calif.
• 349th Air Mobility Wing, Travis Air Force Base, Calif.
• 433rd Airlift Wing, Lackland AFB, Texas
• 434th Air Refueling Wing, Grissom ARB, Ind.
• 445th Airlift Wing, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
• 446th Airlift Wing, McChord AFB, Wash.
• 459th Air Refueling Wing, Andrews AFB, Md.
• 507th Air Refueling Wing, Tinker AFB, Okla.
• 452nd Air Mobility Wing, March ARB, Calif.
• 916th Air Refueling Wing, Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C.
• 927th Air Refueling Wing, Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich.
• 931st Air Refueling Group, McConnel AFB, Kan.
• 932nd Airlift Wing, Scott AFB, Ill.
• 939th Air Refueling Wing, Portland International Airport, Ore.
• 940th Air Refueling Wing, Beale AFB, Calif.
• 624th Regional Support Group, Hickam AFB, Hawaii

Special Missions

• Hurricane Hunters
  53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.
• Aerial Spray
  910th Airlift wing, Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station, Ohio
• Firefighting
  731st Airlift Squadron, Petterson Air Force Base, Colo.
• Combat Search and Rescue
  920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.
• Special Operations
  919th Special Operations Wing, Duke Field, Fla.

10th Air Force

• 10th Air Force, NAS JRB Fort Worth, Texas
• 340th Flying Training Group, Randolph AFB, Texas
• 513th Air Control Group, Tinker AFB, Okla.
• 917th Wing, Barksdale AFB, La.
• 919th Special Operations Wing, Duke Field, Fla.
• 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick AFB, Fla.
• 926th Fighter Wing, NAS JRB New Orleans, La.
• 482nd Fighter Wing, Homestead AFB, Fla.
• 944th Fighter Wing, Luke AFB, Ariz.
• 310th Space Group, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
• 419th Fighter Wing, Hill AFB, Utah
• 610th Regional Support Group, NAS JRB Fort Worth, Texas
• 442nd Fighter Wing, Whiteman AFB, Mo.
• 301st Fighter Wing, NAS JRB Fort Worth. Texas

22nd Air Force

• 22nd Air Force, Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga.
• 94th Airlift Wing, Dobbins ARB, Ga.
• 302nd Airlift Wing, Peterson AFB, Colo.
• 315th Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB, S.C.
• 403rd Wing, Keesler AFB, Miss.
• 439th Airlift Wing, Westover ARB, Mass.
• 440th Airlift Wing, General Mitchell IAP, Wisc.
• 512th Airlift Wing, Dover AFB, Del.
• 514th Airlift Mobility Wing, McGuire AFB, N.J.
• 908th Airlift Wing, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
• 910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown-Warren ARB, Ohio
• 911th Airlift Wing, Pittsburgh International Airport, Penn.
• 913th Airlift Wing, Willow Grove Air Reserve station, Penn.
• 914th Airlift Wing, Niagara Falls International Airport, N.Y.
• 934th Airlift Wing, Minneapolis St Paul ARS, Minn.

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