1st Air Force Wing Reserve, PAF

March 2023 March 2023 1st Air Force Wing Reserve,Philippine Air Force 1st Ready Reserve Air Wing, Philippines Air Force logo.png A shield-style crest primarily in red and blue, divided with a diagonal white bar. The centre contains an symbolic military knife with the number '1' covering its blade. The crest is headed by '1st Air Force Wing (Res)' in all-upper-case letters. Below the knife is a yellow banner for its motto containing the phrase 'Laang Kawal'. Badge of the 1st Air Force Wing Reserve, PAF Philippines Republic of the Philippines President of the Philippines,Armed Forces of the Philippines 20px|alt= Philippine Air Force Wing, Air Force Reserve Force Combat-support unit (military reserve) Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) Colonel Jesus A. Villamor Air Base, Pasay, Philippines Headquarters tl Laang Kawal(Old Soldier) Brg Gen Raymundo T. Francisco Brg Gen Elihu A. Ybañez, AFP;https://1afwr.wordpress.com/wing-commander/ Previous commanders – Brigadier Elihu A. Ybañez 1AFWR.WordPress.com Philippines 1st Air Force Wing Reserve, Philippine Air Force n.d. 11 March 2023Col Consuelo B Estepa, PAFR GSC MNSA The 1st Air Force Wing Reserve, Philippine Air Force (1st AFWR PAF), formerly called the 1st Ready Reserve Air Wing (1RRAW), is a combat-support unit under the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) of the Philippine Air Force (PAF).https://1afwr.wordpress.com/about/ About 1st AFWR 1AFWR.WordPress.com Philippines 1st Air Force Wing Reserve, Philippine Air Force n.d. 11 March 2023 It is based in Colonel Jesus A. Villamor Air Base in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines.https://www.airforcereservecommand.com/history Unit history – Air Force Reserve Command www.AirForceReserveCommand.com Philippine Air Force Reserve Command, Philippine Air Force 2021 11 March 2023 Its headquarters offices are located at the AFRC building inside the airbase. The wing covers all Philippine Air Force reserve units in the National Capital Region (NCR). 1st AFWR is divided into the 11th, 12th, and 13th Air Force Groups (Reserve) (AFGR). Currently, the 1st AFWR is under the command of Brigadier General Raymundo T. Francisco,https://1afwr.wordpress.com/wing-commander-2/ Wing commander – Brigadier General Raymundo T. Francisco O-126367 PAF (JSC) 1AFWR.WordPress.com Philippines 1st Air Force Wing Reserve, Philippine Air Force n.d. 11 March 2023 who took over the position in March 2015.https://1afwr.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/wing-commander-gets-star-rank/ Wing Commander gets star rank 1AFWR.WordPress.com Philippines 1st Air Force Wing Reserve, Philippine Air Force 11 February 2017 11 March 2023 The motto of the 1st AFWR PAF is tl Laang Kawal (in Tagalog), which means 'Old Soldier'. Personnel of the 1st AFWR are military reservists, consisting of commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted members; all of whom have their own primary civilian occupation or profession, and serve part-time in the air force. A reserve wing in the Philippine Air Force is equivalent in size to a brigade in the army. A reserve air group is equivalent to a battalion. Subordinate units in the reserve air group include squadrons (companies) and flights (platoons). In Luzon, the other air force reserve wings are the 2nd AFWR based at Clark Air Base that covers the area from Central Luzon up to all of northern Luzon, and the 3rd AFWR at Fernando Air Base in Batangas that covers all of southern Luzon from Cavite through the Bicol Region. References External links 1st Air Force Wing Reserve, Philippine Air Force Philippine Air Force Reserve Command — official website http://www.paf.mil.ph Philippine Air Force 5 November 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20071102071031/http://www.paf.mil.ph/ 2 November 2007 dead Philippines Category:Reserve and Auxiliary Units of the Philippine Military Category:Military units and formations of the Philippine Air Force Philippines