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  • HOMEFRONT Magazine cover for Fall 2020.

    Fall issue of HOMEFRONT, AFR's Yellow Ribbon Program magazine available

    The Fall issue of HOMEFRONT, the Magazine of the Air Force Reserve Yellow Ribbon Program, is available electronically via the Air Force Reserve Command YRP webpage. This issue includes a feature story on the recent hybrid Yellow Ribbon Event conducted for the 624th Regional Support Group at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. The quarterly
  • Chief Master Sgt. Linda Sparks, a Reservist from Scott Air Force Base Illinois, and Col. Don Wren, 910th Mission Support Group commander, from Youngstown Air Reserve Base, Ohio, reunited during the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program event in St. Louis, Missouri, July 19-21, 2019. Sparks and Wren are former co-workers, and at the Yellow Ribbon event, Sparks took Wren's class on how to write an effective resume for a federal job. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Lauren Gleason)

    Colonel gives deployers tips for getting in the door to civilian jobs

    Chief Master Sgt. Linda Sparks was looking to take the next step in her career as a federal civilian employee when she returned from a 6-month Air Force Reserve deployment.
  • Maj. Fred Pounds, flight commander of clinical management with the 911th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, stands in front of a C-130 Hercules at the Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Jan. 9, 2016. Pounds helped to save a woman’s life during a Yellow Ribbon Event in Orlando, Florida, in December. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Marjorie A. Bowlden)

    Yellow Ribbon rescue

    Maj. Fred Pounds, flight commander of clinical management with the 911th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron here, went to Orlando to attend a Yellow Ribbon Reintegration seminar, expecting to unwind and adjust to life back home. Instead, he ended up averting a crisis and subsequently saving a stranger's life."Whether it happened at a Yellow Ribbon
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