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  • Reserve Airmen, families learn to manage deployment expectations

    Reserve Airmen learned to identify and prioritize their deployment expectations during a presentation at an Air Force Reserve Yellow Ribbon event in Orlando, Florida, March 26-27.Designed for those who are preparing for deployment, the presentation emphasized the need for deployers and their loved

  • Hold the ice

    Members of the 914th Maintenance Group de-ice and prepare a KC-135R Stratotanker for flight to MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.Jan. 25, 2022 at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, N.Y. Aircrew and maintainers are taking part in "Annual Tour Winter Fly-Away 2022" to maximize flying hours and training

  • Guns and Gas: Reserve Citizen Airman comes full circle with B-52

    Master Sgt. Corey Palmer fought to clear his head as he watched the B-52 Stratofortress grow larger in the window of the KC-135 Stratotanker’s boom operator station.The 914th Air Refueling Wing aerial refueling specialist volunteered for the assignment to refuel the B-52 here last week. Still, he

  • Niagara Airmen travel to AFMAO for mission training

    Members of the 914th Air Refueling Wing’s, Force Support Squadron, traveled to Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations for a week of training in support of the mortuary mission of providing dignity, honor and respect to fallen service members.

  • September is Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month

    “Eighteen veterans and two servicemembers, on average, complete suicide every day,” said Joel Smith, Violence Prevention Integrator, 914th Air Refueling Wing. “For every awareness month, we try to create awareness events – it’s about getting the message out, reminding people, so that they can take

  • 20 years later, we'll still never forget

    Twenty years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, members of the Western New York community gathered in front of Niagara University to remember.“The streets were covered with thick ash and the air was filled with smoke. It was an eerie feeling and one that will be planted in my mind as long

  • Niagara opens new fitness center

    Base leadership and distinguished guests attend a ribbon cutting ceremony in honor of the completion of the new base fitness center Aug. 27, 2021 at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, N.Y. The new 26,000 sq. ft. $13 million facility can support multiple activities simultaneously for individuals or

  • Dover reservists help repair refueler at Niagara

    Four 512th Airlift Wing maintainers, who normally work on cargo aircraft on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, are currently in New York repairing an air refueling aircraft. The 512th AW reservists answered Fourth Air Force’s call to aid the 914th Air Refueling Wing with sheet metal repairs on a