The United States Air Force Reserve Command was created through the inactivation of the Continental Air Command on 1 August 1968. Originally formed as a Separate Operating Agency, the Air Force Reserve Command was created as a command of the Air Force in 1997 through the passage of a public law, making it the only Air Force command that was established by statute. The same year, Air Force Chief of Staff Ronald R. Fogleman made it a Major Command.
Headquartered at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, Air Force Reserve Command comprises three numbered Air Forces: Fourth Air Force (March Air Reserve Base, California), Tenth Air Force (Carswell Air Reserve Station, Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas), and Twenty-Second Air Force (Twenty-Second Air Force Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia). More than 80,000 Airmen currently serve under the Command, and since the Command’s creation Reservists have served in every major conflict or contingency operation, including deployments to Iran and Afghanistan as part of the War on Terrorism.
The Air Force Reserve Command shield features a design similar to that of the U.S. Air Force shield, but with more stylized and elongated wings in vertical alignment. Between the wings and above the Hap Arnold star is an spread-winged eagle facing to the right, a symbol of the nation and its inhabitants as well as the air power available to Air Force Reserve Command; the eagle facing right connotes looking ahead to the future.