October issue of Citizen Airman available

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Although thousands of Air Force reservists are still actively involved in supporting operations worldwide, Air Force Reserve Command officials are busy gathering lessons learned from current and recent operations.

Read about the command’s effort to examine its performance in the October issue of Citizen Airman, official magazine of the Air Force Reserve.

Also in the October issue, find out about the Reserve’s new service commitment policy. Effective Oct. 1, reservists who receive certain kinds of training, education or promotions will also incur a corresponding service obligation.

In other stories, read about engineers from Louisiana traveling to Minnesota to help build a better future for a Native American family; a program designed to help reservists facing hardships caused by mobilization, early deactivation or demobilization; and an individual mobilization augmentee selected as one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year.

This issue also highlights a mother’s battle to beat cervical cancer and save the life of her unborn child; Air Force plans to return to a steady state of operations and a normal schedule of air and space expeditionary force rotations; and progress being made within the Air Force Reserve’s newest air refueling units.

For these stories and more, visit Citizen Airman's Web site at http://www.afrc.af.mil/hq/citamn/default.html.