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  • From students to cadre

    Security forces Defenders from multiple units across Air Force Reserve Command participated in a four-mile ruck march on March 6, 2023, at Boston Mill, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio.

  • IDLC: Forging Reserve Defenders

    The Integrated Defense Leadership Course is based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, and uses training grounds at CJAG. IDLC was designed to provide Reserve Defenders with intensely focused hands-on training to achieve and maintain combat readiness.

  • Filipino heritage strengthens Integrated Defense Leadership Course cadre

    Staff Sgt. David Greenwood was born in the Philippines. He is a member of the 926th Security Force Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, but is temporarily assigned to the 910th Security Forces Squadron at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, as a member of the cadre team that facilitates the

  • Integrated Defense Leadership Course: 446th SFS

    Air Force Reserve Command Defenders assigned to the 446th Security Forces Squadron, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, completed the two-week Integrated Defense Leadership Course, based at YARS and using training grounds at CJAG, in March 2022.

  • No better teacher than a sim round

    Air Force Reserve Command Defenders assigned to the 446th Security Forces Squadron, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, work their way through a live-fire training scenario, March 20, 2022, at the shoot-house at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center, Ohio.

  • Smokescreens, sandbags, frozen creeks and empty mags

    When the crew door of a C-5 Galaxy opened on the ramp at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, Feb. 6, 2022, it was the first time some of the 40 Defenders debarking the aircraft had ever seen snow. The forecast for the next two weeks called for some of the coldest temperatures they’d ever

  • IDLC crafts combat-ready Defenders

    The Integrated Defense Leadership Course, which takes place at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center and Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, was designed to provide Reserve Defenders with intensely focused hands-on training to achieve and maintain combat readiness.

  • Beta Integrated Defense Leadership Course Bolsters Defender Combat Readiness

    Air Force Reserve Command security forces Airmen, or 'Defenders,' participated in the beta edition of the two-week Integrated Defense Leadership Course, held May 10–24 at Camp James A. Garfield and Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio. The IDLC was designed to provide Reserve defenders with