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Senior Airman Garrett Jackson, 305th Maintenance Squadron aircraft metals technology journeyman, reviews parts cut for a KC-46A Pegasus auxiliary power unit bleed air duct on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., March 23.

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Reserve commander releases Information Warfare intent

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HEADQUARTERS AIR FORCE RESERVE COMMAND

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. —

Realizing how important gaining and maintaining an information advantage over adversaries is in today’s rapidlychanging global environment, the chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve Command recently released a document that spells out his intent for the Reserve going forward in the area of Information Warfare.“As we take steps to transform for the future, in tegrating our air, space and information operations will be vital to succeeding as we compete now, enable integrated de terrence, prepare for escalation and win wars across multiple domains,” Lt. Gen. John Healy said in a document sent to AFRC senior leaders April 1. “My de sired end state is to develop IW-minded leaders and capable units ready to interoperate with our Total Force, joint and coalition partners. These leaders will augment IW capabilities while seamlessly integrated into operational and tactical planning and execution to support the Joint Force.”

Information Warfare is defined by the Air Force as the employment of military capabilities in and through the information environment to deliberately affect adversary human and system behavior to preserve friendly freedom of action during cooperation, competition and conflict. IW operations are conducted to gain an information advantage over an opponent. IW consists of controlling one’s own information space and protecting access to one’s own information

AFRC celebrates diamond anniversary

Lt. Col. Elizabeth Magnusson OFFICE OF THE AIR FORCE RESERVE

ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — For 75 years, Reserve Airmen have answered the nation’s call with a record of combat-proven readiness while also transforming for the future. In celebration of this milestone, Lt. Gen. John Healy, chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve Command, hosted the Reserve’s 75th birthday celebration with a cake-cutting ceremony and dedication of a new Profiles in Leadership display at the Pentagon, April 14.

The celebration also featured Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. as a guest speaker. Chief Master Sgt. Timothy White, Healy’s senior enlisted advisor and AFRC command chief master sergeant, and Senior Airman Shamadre Chambliss, the junior ranking Reserve Airman in the National Capital Region, helped cut the cake.

along with acquiring and using an opponent’s information. This includes adversary military capabilities, accessing their information networks and disrupting their information flow with the persistent objective of altering adversary behavior, possibly without firing a kinetic shot. IW is not a new phenomenon but a rapidly evolving concept of operations as technological developments lead to information being disseminated faster and on a larger scale, with greater impact on air and space operations.

As the Operations and Analysis Division Chief for AFRC’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Directorate and one of the command’s IW leads,

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“Our adversaries are engaged in information operations below the threshold of armed conflict that jeopardize our ability to generate air and space power,” he said. “The Air Force Reserve must organize, train and equip Information Warfare forces to incorporate information effects into all operations to deter our adversaries today and be ready for future conflict.”

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“Today, we celebrate our birthday, commemorating 75 years of service alongside our total force partners during every combat operation since the Korean War,” Healy said. “The more than 70,000 Reserve Airmen, both military and civilian, continue to provide strategic depth for the Total Force. This diamond anniversary is an occasion to reflect on our proud heritage, recognize our airmen’s past and current contributions to national security, and look to transforming for the future.”

“The men and women of the Air Force Reserve bring diverse strengths and experiences to our Air Force,” Brown said. “Their dual citizen and military identities are very important. Each of us as airmen, whether active,

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ON THE COVER Senior Airman Garrett Jackson, 305th Maintenance Squadron aircraft metals technology journeyman, reviews parts cut for a KC-46A Pegasus auxiliary power unit bleed air duct on Joint Base McGuire-DixLakehurst, N.J., March 23.

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The power of family bonds and positive mind sets

Airman 1st Class Olivia Bithell

JOINT BASE LANGLEYEUSTIS, Va. — The bonds between firefighters are extremely close – close enough to be considered family.

For the father - daughter duo, U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Blaine Holland, 633d Civil Engineering Squadron deputy fire chief, at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, and Airman 1st Class Riley Holland, 60th Civil Engineering Squadron firefighter, at Travis Air Force Base, California, it is family.

Blaine joined the Air Force in January 1998, shortly after graduating high school – inspired by a close friend who enlisted, and his grandfather who served from 1947 to 1950.

“There were three reasons I thought fire…I like to be in shape, I like a little bit of danger and, most importantly, I like to help people,” said Blaine. “The Air Force took me in and offered me the opportunity and training to become a firefighter.”

For Blaine, not only the fire house, but the whole of the Air Force, has embraced him as family along with his wife of 23 years and four children, throughout his career. Throughout all the different challenges firefighters face in fire suppression and rescue, constant job trainings, long hours, deployments, moves and everyday life, his family was always taken care of.

Growing up in a military household creates a unique bond amongst family members, united through the Air Force lifestyle and ‘service before self’ being ingrained in everyday life, according to Blaine.

“Riley grew up in the fire station and is an Air Force brat all the way through,” said Blaine. “The Air Force’s values have been instilled in her and made her comfortable around this environment.”

For Riley, the bonds she shares with her family, comfortability

with Air Force life, and her desire to work in a team-centric career field motivated her to join the Air Force.

“My mom, dad and oldest brother, Ashton, (42d Contracting Squadron contract specialist at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama) inspired me to join,” said Riley. “After my brother returned home from Basic Military Training, he was glowing and so excited, and I remember thinking that I wanted to do that too.”

Her father helped her narrow down specific career fields centered around her hobbies, but most importantly being a part of a team. According to Riley, he did not sugar coat the challenges and dangers that comes with fighting fire.

“I did not have firefighting as my desired job right away, but after talking to my dad and learning about the challenges of the job… I thought, I got this,” said Riley.

“Fire had everything I wanted… the team environment, physical action, camaraderie and helping people in the community. I get a good feeling when I’m able to help somebody on their worst day and just be there for them.”

According to Riley, having her dad in her back pocket as a resource is invaluable. Not only can she get advice in her everyday life, relationships and events, she can get advice about work from someone who wears three hats: a firefighter, an airman and a father.

“It is so nice having an outside resource who’s been through exactly what you’re going through,” said Riley. “I can talk to him about anything, vent, talk about things at work and he understands. Anytime my friends and I ask him for advice, he’s always there.”

Helping develop young Airmen is one of the most rewarding aspects of the job, stated Blaine.

“I see awesome Americans here, and I can also see what they’re struggling with. I’ve gone through it, or I’ve seen someone else go through it because the uniqueness of a firehouse since we live together,” said Blaine. “All I care about in the end is that person. Whatever they’re going through, I’ll stand next to them and go through it too, because somebody did it for me, and I’ll do it for you.”

Riley shared that her dad’s advice has helped her and her friends develop healthy ways to maintain work-life balance, and take care of themselves physically, emotionally, spiritually and socially. Through that advice, they have been able to have a positive mindset and find fulfillment in their Air Force careers.

“My dad always has remained true to himself. The military is a part of him, but not all he is. He is so positive and excited to go to

work,” said Riley. “He inspires me to be better and have that same positive attitude in work, my faith, with people and everything in life.”

Riley, in turn, also inspires Blaine.

“Riley is a constant reminder to me about what inspires me inside and outside of work,” shared Blaine. “She reminds me to continue my passions, such as playing my guitar and writing songs, and why I love being an airman.”

The bonds between airmen are special. Being a firefighter strengthens those bonds. Having her dad as her mentor is even more special, stated Riley. He has shown me you never have to change who you are to complete the job.

“If you’re interested in fire and have been told no, I would say don’t ever take no as an option. Be true to yourself and go for it,” said Riley. “As a woman, you’re going to be held to the same standard and going to perform the same job as a man would. You do not have to give up your femininity or your desire to become a firefighter if that is your goal. If you remain positive and true to yourself, you can accomplish any goal you have.”

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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Riley Holland, 60th Civil Engineering Squadron firefighter carries her father, Senior Master Sgt. Blaine Holland, 633d Civil Engineering Squadron deputy fire chief in front of an Oshkosh P-19 Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting vehicle at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, March 21.

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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Riley Holland wears fire bunker gear in the early 2000’s.

These veterans’ student loans are gone, but so are their GI Bill benefits. How that could change

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WASHINGTON — When her Army career was cut short by a medical discharge in 2005, Tasha Berkhalter decided to pursue a degree that she hoped would lead to a career as an FBI agent. The now-defunct, for-profit ITT Technical Institute promised a flexible class schedule that would meet her needs as a working single mother.

Officials at the school also said that her GI Bill benefits would cover the full cost of tuition, she later testified to the Department of Education. Instead, she graduated in 2010 with a degree that companies didn’t view as valid and, to her surprise, $100,000 in debt.

“I was sick to my stomach,” said Berkhalter, a 41-year-old substitute Spanish teacher based in Lima, Ohio.

Things turned around last year when the Department of Education canceled her federal loan debt through a program for students whose schools have been accused of defrauding them. But the education funding she earned through her time in the Army can’t be restored.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of veterans use GI Bill benefits to pay for college or other educational programs. The funding is meant to be a recruitment tool, an acknowledgment of their service and a springboard to help soldiers transition back into civilian life. But for thousands of veterans, their post-military lives have been disrupted by poor experiences at for-profit colleges accused of defrauding students.

In recent years, some students who attended for-profit schools have had their loans canceled under a program called borrower defense to repayment, which protects loan holders from having to

pay back federal loans to schools that misled them.

Under the Biden administration, more than 1 million students of schools such as ITT Technical Institute, DeVry University and Corinthian Colleges have had billions canceled under the program, including veterans like Berkhalter.

Last August, the Department of Education announced that it would cancel all remaining federal student loan debt people took out to attend ITT Technical Institute from 2005 to its closure in 2016, resulting in an additional $3.9 billion in cancellation for 208,000 borrowers.

ITT closed in 2016 after the Department of Education blocked the school from admitting new students who used federal financial aid.

“We’ve had a debate around student loan forgiveness, and that’s been a good debate, but we’ve often left out veterans’ voices who are suffering from the consequences of attending fraudulent institutions,” Rep. Mike Levin, D-Calif., the ranking member of the Economic Opportunity subpanel of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, said in an interview.

Legislation introduced last month would restore benefits to veterans who attended programs that qualified for borrower defense discharges or were found to have defrauded students by state or federal officials. The bill is up for a vote in the House Veterans’ Affairs panel’s Economic Opportunity subcommittee on Tuesday.

“It’s long past time to give our veteran community the justice that they deserve,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., the lead sponsor of the bill, during a hearing last month. “We have to ensure that no student veteran is ever robbed of their benefits again by

People rally to show support for the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan, in front of the the Supreme Court of the United States, in Washington, D.C, Feb. 28.

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making sure that we’re cutting off any predatory schemes.”

Committee staff said they intend for the potential restoration of benefits to be retroactive and that veterans would not need to apply.

The U.S. has provided educational assistance to veterans since 1944, when the GI Bill of Rights granted financial support to soldiers returning from World War II. In 2008, Congress passed the Post-9/11 GI Bill to boost benefits.

Under that program, most veterans are eligible to receive up to

four years of tuition payments at public colleges or a set amount per year for private schools. They also receive stipends for housing, books and supplies.

For years, for-profit schools had a financial incentive to enroll more veterans due to their GI Bill benefits. Under federal law, only 90% of for-profit schools’ revenue can come from federal funding such as loans or Pell Grants. Until recently, GI Bill benefits did not count as federal funding, meaning the more GI Bill beneficiaries a school enrolled, the more federal dollars they could secure from other students. Congress closed that loophole in 2021 as part of the American Rescue Plan.

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Congress has also sought to make it easier to block poor performers in the for-profit college industry from accessing military educational benefits.

A network of state approving agencies, not the Department of Veteran Affairs, is responsible for screening schools that receive GI Bill funding. In 2020, Congress passed legislation that imposed stricter requirements on schools seeking approval to access VA educational assistance and gave the state approving agencies more power to assess them. Those provisions went into effect late last year.

Robert Muth, a law professor at the University of San Diego and the managing attorney of the school’s Veterans Legal Clinic, said closing the 90/10 loophole was an important step toward

reducing the incentive to target veterans. But he also noted that as long as veterans have had access to educational assistance, there have been companies seeking to deceive them.

“We’ve done a good job of improving some of the regulatory views with respect to these schools,” he said. “The key is going to be that we don’t let down our guard.”

About 565,000 veterans received a total of $8.1 billion in education assistance under the current version of the GI Bill in fiscal year 2022. Of the $4.1 billion that went to colleges and universities, about 27% was spent at for-profit schools.

A third of Post-9/11 GI Bill students attended for-profits in 2016, while only 10% of all post-secondary students did, according to a 2019 Congressional Budget Office report. Between 2009 and 2017, eight of the 10 institutions receiving the most Post-9/11 GI Bill funding were

for-profits. ITT Technical Institute, the third-highest recipient, received $1.15 billion, adjusted for inflation, between 2009 and 2016, according to the report.

The appeal of for-profit schools is often their ability to work with the schedules of nontraditional students, who tend to be older and have greater financial responsibilities than traditional college students. The schools also advertise their programs as career-focused.

“Veterans get disproportionately victimized primarily because they disproportionately represent all of the characteristics of your nontraditional students,” said Barmak Nassirian, vice president for higher education policy at Veterans Education Success, an advocacy group focused on student veterans’ issues.

Brian Whitehead, a 42-yearold Atlanta-based construction equipment rental specialist, enrolled in ITT Technical Institute in 2006 after leaving the Army.

The transition was difficult, he said.

“You feel very frightened,” Whitehead said of leaving the military. “It’s a new horizon, especially when you go in at 18,19 years old, and then you come out and you’ve done really nothing else but the military.”

He said he remembered seeing ITT Technical Institute ads touting how employable graduates were.

In written testimony submitted to the Department of Education in 2021, he said that the school claimed that 90% of students get jobs after graduating, with salaries around $60,000 to $70,000, and that his GI Bill would cover the cost of his education.

Like Berkhalter, he struggled to find a job with his degree and graduated in 2008 with a federal and private loan balance that has grown to $90,000. Of that, about $52,000 is the product of federal loans that will be canceled through borrower defense.

If he had a second shot at his GI Bill benefits he would “absolutely” go back to school, he said, to pursue a career in social work or counseling.

Berkhalter isn’t so sure. She said she’d love to go back to school to get credentialed to become a full-time teacher. But she’s older now and has more responsibilities than she did when she left the Army, including her five children. With her student loans cleared and credit improved, she and her husband are expecting to close on a home next month.

Still, she said, having GI benefits restored would be a boon to the students who are willing and able to try again.

“We take a vow when we come into the military to protect and serve,” she said. “It’s already a lot when you transition out back into the civilian world, and when you come out like that and you’re immediately taken advantage of, it just leaves a sour taste in your mouth.”

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Exchange celebrates military shoppers with more than $500,000 in giveaways in 2022

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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE —

The Army & Air Force Exchange Service celebrated military shoppers in a big way in 2022 – with more than $524,000 given away in prizes.

The Exchange hosts sweepstakes and giveaways throughout the year to thank and reward the military community. Prizes awarded last year include popular products, gift cards, cash and tickets to the Army-Navy Game. In all, more than 3,700 shoppers won in 2022.

“I shop at the base all the time. I love going out to the Exchange,” said Lois Quin, a disabled Army Veteran who won a recliner in the Exchange’s Free Friday program. “And it’s fabulous to have online shopping that’s delivered right to your home.”

Quin won by commenting on the weekly Free Friday giveaway

post on the Exchange’s Facebook page. Other sweepstakes included the popular Military Star card’s Your Holiday Bill Is on Us, in which five grand-prize winners had their card balances paid in full, while another 35 winners received statement credits of $1,000 or $500.

Travis AFB kids can also have the chance to win through Month of the Military Child sweepstakes, as well as the You Made the Grade program, which honors military students’ academic excellence with biannual drawings. Students in first through 12th grades who maintain a B average can bring their report cards each grading period to the Travis BX for a $10 or $20 gift card. They can also enter the worldwide sweepstakes for a chance to win a share of $4,000 in prizes each semester.

“The Exchange gives back not only to the military community through dividends but also to shoppers through sweepstakes and contests,” said Travis BX General Manager Cathie Byrns. “I encourage Travis shoppers to enter for a chance to win great prizes all year long.”

DAF selects next locations for the newest fighters

Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs

WASHINGTON (AFNS) — The Department of the Air Force selected the next bases to receive two of its newest fighters.

Barnes Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, was selected as the preferred location to host the next F-35A Lightning II squadron and Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans and Fresno Air National Guard Base, California, will replace their F-15C/D Eagles with F-15EX Strike Eagles.

The new squadrons will consist of 18 F-35As at Barnes ANGB and 18 F-15EXs each at both Fresno ANGB and NAS JRB New Orleans.

The decision to host the next F-35As and the F-15EXs at their respective bases came after conducting site surveys at each location, assessing the location’s ability to facilitate the mission and infrastructure capacity, while accounting for community support, environmental factors and cost.

The Department of the Air Force will conduct environmental impact analyses at each base, which are expected to be completed in spring 2024 before a final decision is made.

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A pilot assigned to the 61st Fighter Squadron and 61st Aircraft Maintenance Unit crew chiefs prepare an F-35A Lightning II for taxi, Jan. 15, 2019 at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.

Jack Teixeira was quiet in school while building a persona online

The Washington Post DIGHTON, Mass. — Sixthgrade Jack Teixeira stands in a sea of kids, his chin tipped up. In the decade-old class photo, surrounded by newly minted middle-schoolers with cheesy grins, he’s not quite smiling.

Already, Teixeira was known as something of a loner, a kid who’d made gun noises during elementary-school recess and would go on to carry around books about war and firearms in high school. By 21, however, a decade later, Teixeira would have allegedly built a commanding persona online – one tied up in his ability to show off U.S. secrets.

His arrest here last week was shocking for those who remembered Teixeira as patriotic and enamored of military service,

someone who skipped his own high school graduation to start basic training. But his alleged motive, to impress others online, didn’t surprise one former classmate who attended school with Teixeira and requested anonymity to discuss him and their hometown candidly.

“I don’t think he did it intending to put our country in harm’s way,” the classmate told The Washington Post. “I think he was just a stupid kid making a stupid decision because he wanted to feel cool, because he didn’t get that growing up.”

Teixeira, a member of the Air National Guard, is accused of allegedly posting hundreds of classified U.S. military documents online in an invitation-only chatroom on the gamer-oriented social site Discord. The leaked information, which has since

circulated widely, has created geopolitical shock waves, reveal ing classified information about the war in Ukraine and U.S. sur veillance of allies.

Teixeira was arraigned in fed eral court Friday on charges of retention and transmission of na tional defense information and willful retention of classified doc uments. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

In this southeastern Massa chusetts town, a conservative place with wooded streets and a farming tradition, the interna tionally watched arrest was jar ring. But Teixeira seemed to have left more tracks online than in the small town where he grew up.

People here said Teixeira was quiet, or declined to talk about him. The person known as “OG” online – where Teixeira was said

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A police car is seen driving near the house in Dighton, Mass., where Jack Teixeira, a member of the Air National Guard, was arrested for sharing classified documents. See TEIXEIRA Page 10

by Discord friends to have allegedly spent months transcribing classified documents, growing angry when friends didn’t read them – contrasts with the odd, awkward person who kept to himself.

Teixeira’s family has been publicly silent. But on Saturday, signs went up at Teixeira’s mother’s house, where reporters had been camped out after the arrest. Tacked to trees on the edge of the property and stuck on a backhoe that had been used to block the long driveway to the house, they read: NO TRESPASSING.

Dighton is situated in a rural corner of southeastern Massachusetts. A river runs along the town’s eastern border; Cape Cod Bay is about 30 miles east.

Many of the town’s 8,000 residents work in agriculture. They celebrate the start of summer with a cow chip festival, which is named after a contest in which bettors win prizes if cows standing on a grid defecate on their chosen number. American flags fly from some houses, and a majority of voters here supported Donald Trump for president in 2016 and 2020. After the pandemic, the town founded the Firecracker Festival, for Independence Day.

“Patriotism is very important

to the town,” said Bill Runey, the superintendent of Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School District, where Teixeira attended elementary through high school.

Like others in Dighton, Teixeira embraced guns, religion and military service. He went to elementary and middle school in Dighton and arrived at Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High, a school of about 700, in 2017.

He didn’t appear to have participated in organized school activities, Runey said, and hasn’t had any connection to the district since graduating.

Some of Teixeira’s teachers remembered him, Runey said, but “nobody really categorized him as anything other than quiet.”

He was so keen on the military and America - “overly patriotic”that his former classmate thought of his interest as “a form of American nationalism.” “I just feel like he was definitely very misunderstood,” the classmate said. “He did his own thing.”

His peers hadn’t been surprised when Teixeira had decided to join the military, his former classmate said. He followed his stepfather into the Air National Guard’s 102nd Intelligence Wing and had been stationed on Cape Cod, an hour’s drive from home.

“He had an affinity for military service,” Runey said.

Teixeira, who had a top-secret

security clearance, allegedly transcribed and posted hundreds of classified documents in his chatroom over the course of months, starting in the summer of 2022. They got little attention from the young men and teen boys in the group, which frustrated Teixeira, The Post has reported. In late February, Teixeira began posting photos of documents instead.

Then someone in the group reposted dozens of them, many

marked “top secret,” on a different Discord server. They continued spreading, and the leaker stopped posting in the original chatroom. When the documents hit the mainstream two weeks ago, he shut the server down.

The Post contacted more than four dozen of Teixeira’s former classmates, teachers, fellow airmen and others who may have known him. Most did not respond. Some who knew him on Discord have told The Post that he wanted to educate and inform his friends.

Teixeira’s family did not respond to requests from The Post last week. His public defender did not respond to a request Monday.

Teixeira, who has not entered a plea, is set to appear in court again in coming days.

At his mother’s property on Maple Street, the house is set far back from the road, screened by the woods that fill the long gaps between houses. Some neighbors said they didn’t know Teixeira or his mother, Dawn Dufault, describing the sprawling neighborhood as very quiet.

The black-and-red no-trespassing signs at the home stood in contrast to the cheerful hanging sign for Dufault’s business, Bayberry Farm and Flower Co. An empty cart parked next to the driveway quaintly advertised

“fresh cut flowers,” with an oldfashioned mailbox attached for payments.

Multicolored ribbons curled off a hook on the sign, as if they had recently tethered balloons. Some carnations, still pink, lay on the ground next to a dumpster.

Dick Treacy, who lives down the road, said Dufault, a florist, came to his house earlier this month to pick up pressure-treated wood he’d flagged in the local Buy Nothing group, he said. She was planning to build new raised garden beds.

Treacy helped her load up the wood. In return, she brought him a bouquet for his wife.

“She’s a sweet lady. She says, ‘Don’t tell your wife I gave ‘em to you. Tell her you bought ‘em,” Treacy said. “She was a sweetheart.”

Though he was familiar with Dufault, he didn’t know she had a son. He saw her just a few hours before federal agents arrived, he said Friday.

“I saw her go by in the morning, and I waved at her, and she waved,” he said. “I had no idea something was already starting.”

Treacy added that he was sad for Teixiera’s family.

“I don’t think it was treason,” he said. “But it wasn’t a smart thing to do.”

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Guard or Reserve has a different unique superpower that ensures we’re going to be able to fly, fight and win. You bring unique talents when you come in uniform, but then you take off or hang up your uniforms and take your superpowers to use them in different ways as a Citizen Airman, and we appreciate that dual identity you carry as part of our total force.”

The Air Force Reserve has a long history of providing combat-ready airmen, often at a moment’s notice, to address national security priorities worldwide. During the Korean War in the early 1950s, there was a demand to quickly expand the U.S. military. Although a new element of the national military establishment, the Air Force Reserve provided critical expertise by enabling the retention of previous service members from World War II.

Since then, the Reserve has provided essential contributions in every one of the nation’s major conflicts – from the Korean War and Vietnam War, through the Gulf War and the Global War on Terrorism, to recent efforts like the non-combatant evacuation of Kabul during Operation Allies Refuge.

Through Total Force Integration, active duty, Reserve and Air National Guard Airmen blend seamlessly when summoned to duty. Vigilance in training and

preparation enabled Reserve contributions to the national defense when needed most.

“Our nation relies on the Air Force Reserve to provide strategic depth and surge capacity both at home and abroad,” Brown said. “And I don’t see that slowing down. “So, I appreciate the aspect that the Reserve brings, not only to us in uniform, but also what you bring back to your communities when you’re not in uniform. The Reserve represents the best in the Air Force and the best of the country, and I’m very grateful that I’ve had the opportunity to serve alongside you.”

In addition to the event at the Pentagon, there was another cake-cutting event at AFRC headquarters at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, earlier in the week. Maj. Gen. Richard L. Kemble, director of Strategic Plans, Programs and Requirements, kept with tradition and cut the cake with Senior Airman Nia Glover, an administrative technician and the youngest Reserve Airman at Robins AFB. Headquarters AFRC is home to more than 1,000 Reserve Airmen, civilians and contractors.

The Air Force Reserve was officially established on April 14, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman, seven months after the Air Force was established as a separate service. The Reserve’s lineage, however, dates back more than 100 years to when Reserve air power was established in the National Defense Act of 1916. The Air Force Reserve became

a major command in February 1997.

For 75 years, the nation has called on the Air Force Reserve to support national security ob jectives around the globe and across the spectrum of military and humanitarian operations. As they have for three- quarters of a century, Reserve Citizen Airmen across the country stand ready to provide daily operational capa bility to the joint force while pre serving the strategic depth the nation needs to respond to unex pected and emerging threats.

Eric R. Dietrich/U.S. Air Force Chief of Air Force Reserve Lt. Gen. John Healy, left, Senior Airman Shamadre Chambliss, the youngest airman present, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. and Chief Master Sgt. Tim White, command chief of Air Force Reserve Command, cut the cake during the Air Force Reserve 75th birthday celebration at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., April 14.

Eric R. Dietrich/U.S. Air Force Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. delivers remarks during the Air Force Reserve 75th birthday celebration at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., April 14.

Intent

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IW capabilities in support of global operations to gain advantage over relevant actors. His memo also outlines two lines of effort that the Air Force Reserve staff will execute in conjunction with Total Force IW efforts to understand, institutionalize and operationalize current IW capabilities. The lines of effort fall in lock step with the general’s overall priorities for the command: Ready Now! and Transforming for the Future.

LOE 1 is to build mission-qualified IW Airmen and capabilities to develop and support planning of Total Force IW capabilities at the tactical and operational level, enabling Air Force and Space Force missions in support of the Joint Force commander.

LOE 2 is to build out Reserve IW capacity based on existing requirements to maximize Total Force convergence and synchronization while posturing for future needs.

Col. Matt Trovinger, the Operations, Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration Directorate’s Chief of Current Operations at AFRC, and another AFRC IW lead, commented that the Reserve is uniquely qualified to contribute in the Information Warfare arena because of the skills many Reservists have acquired in their information-centered civilian careers.

“Reserve Citizen Airmen are critical to Information Warfare operations at the strategic, operational and tactical levels, and the impact spans across multiple mission sets and career fields,” he said. “These Airmen provide unique skills and experience often not present in active-component forces. General Healy’s intent for Information Warfare puts Air Force Reserve in lock step with the wider Air Force perspective that gaining advantage in the information environment is a precondition for effective air, space and cyberspace operations.”