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  • Giving Airmen time back

    Improvements in technology, review of manpower solutions and additional duty workload, and refining ancillary training topped the recommendations presented to Lt. Gen. Richard Newton III, deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services, by a team he chartered to find what impacts Airmen's

  • Gold Star survivors are part of Air Force family tree

    The Air Force family tree has many branches and one branch, representing the service’s Gold Star families, has leaves that glow consistently with the rest.   Gold Star families are survivors of military service members who lost their lives during armed hostilities, including deployments in support

  • Grateful Nation Award nominees sought

    The Air Force is seeking nominations for the 2013 Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs Grateful Nation Award, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced today.This award is presented annually to enlisted members from each service who have been recognized for superior conduct in

  • Gun safes excluded from household goods weight allowance

    As the number of accidental child injuries and deaths continue to rise, more and more incidents are attributed to unsecured, loaded guns. Defense leaders are confident this update will help improve overall gun safety in homes, while also helping to decrease service member suicides.

  • Hagel announces reduction in civilian furlough days

    Hundreds of thousands of Defense Department civilian employees who have had to take a weekly unpaid day off from work since July 8 are getting some relief, as the total number of furlough days has been reduced from 11 to six, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced today.Here is the complete text of

  • Hanscom joins USAJOBS

    Hanscom AFB joined a growing list of Air Force bases Jan. 14 using a single source process to apply for vacant Air Force civilian positions. To apply for a vacant civilian position, applicants must submit a resume through USAJOBS.gov. The transition does not affect the more than 25,000 Air Force

  • Healing from invisible wounds

    On Jan. 15, 2008, Senior Airman Christopher D’Angelo, a heavy equipment operator, was the lead gunner in an armored vehicle convoy on a road near Baghdad. The sun was shining and the air comfortable. His unit had just transported construction materials to forward operating bases and was currently

  • Health Profession Education Program candidates selected for 2017

    Air Force officials have selected more than 200 officers for the Air Force Medical Service Health Profession Education Program.   Development team boards held this summer for the Biomedical Sciences Corps, Medical Service Corps and Nurse Corps selected 216 officers from 20 career fields for the

  • Health professions officers to be considered for command

    Medical career field development teams are slated to meet in May and June to consider eligible officers for medical squadron command, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced this week. Officers selected will fill command vacancies between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2013.Eligible officers include