May 19, 2015 AF phases in employees’ injury, illness compensation portal The Air Force, in conjunction with other Department of Defense services, is phasing in use of the Employees' Compensation Operations and Management Portal - or ECOMP - which is intended to eventually replace the current system used to file injury and illness compensation claims.ECOMP is a free,
May 19, 2015 HYT extension possible for SrA-MSgt in 35 career fields Eligible senior airmen, staff sergeants, technical sergeants and master sergeants in 35 Air Force specialties will be able to apply for a high year of tenure extension and, if approved, will be able to extend between 12 and 24 months past their current HYT.The Air Force is introducing several
May 18, 2015 AFROTC instructor applications due May 30 Eligible lieutenants, captains and majors interested in summer 2016 and remaining 2015 AFROTC instructor opportunities must submit their Airmen Development Plan to the Air Force Personnel Center by May 30, 2015.There are 195 instructor positions available between now and summer of 2016 at 124
May 7, 2015 AFROTC detachment command opportunities available Eligible active duty line of the Air Force lieutenant colonels and lieutenant colonel-selects interested in Summer 2016 Reserve Officer Training Corps detachment command opportunities have until May 27, 2015 to request consideration for these positions.Command opportunities are expected to open at
May 7, 2015 Air Force establishes new key developmental reporting identifiers The Air Force has established four new reporting identifiers to identify Airmen serving in key developmental positions outside of their control Air Force specialty, effective April 30, 2015. The four new key developmental position reporting identifiers are: key developmental Senior Master Sgt. and
May 6, 2015 Civilian Airmen serve their country, deploy with military teammates More than two million public employees protect the nation through service in the armed forces, and more than 183,000 of them are Air Force civilian full-time, part-time, term, temp and nonappropriated fund Airmen.Often working behind the scenes in support of their military teammates, civilian Airmen
May 5, 2015 AF celebrates Public Service Recognition Week The Air Force is honoring its civilian Airmen, as part of the weeklong Public Service Recognition Week, May 3-9.PSRW is a nation-wide campaign to recognize people who serve the nation as federal, state, county and local government employees. It's to highlight their contributions and to say "thank
April 24, 2015 AF implements automated evaluation and decoration processing via myPers Beginning in May, supervisors of active duty Airmen will be able to initiate, process, track and sign officer and enlisted evaluations using the Air Force online personnel services website, or myPers, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced today. Beginning in June, supervisors of active duty
April 22, 2015 Career-ending injury leads Airman to new calling When a career-ending injury halted then-Staff Sgt. Daniel Crane's promising military career, he almost gave in to the anger and depression that threatened to overtake him.In 2012, Crane, assigned to the 736th Security Forces Squadron in Guam, had just completed a three-day security mission. The
April 20, 2015 Enlisted members selected for promotion to get EPR on "select" grade closeout date In line with a recent update to the Air Force policy on enlisted performance report static closeout dates, effective immediately, all future EPRs for promotion-selectees will close out on the date of the promotion-select grade.At the direction of headquarters Air Force, Airmen promoted to technical