July 14, 2009 Special developmental education programs open for application Officers with demonstrated leadership and scholarship abilities interested in applying for special developmental education programs for the 2010-2011 academic year, have until Aug. 31 to submit their applications to the Air Force Personnel Center. The four special DE programs include the Olmsted
July 10, 2009 New Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Web site To reinforce the Air Force's commitment to eliminating incidents of sexual assault, officials here have debuted a new Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Web site to raise awareness and provide prevention training, education, and victim advocacy. "Sexual assault is absolutely inconsistent with
July 9, 2009 Civilian development 'roadmap' launched The Air Force recently approved four initiatives that make up part of the civilian institutional development "roadmap". The initiatives are key to helping civilians excel professionally while working to achieve the Air Force mission of fly, fight and win in air, space and cyberspace. Air Force
July 7, 2009 AFPC accepting applications for test pilot school The next annual Air Force test pilot school selection board will convene Sep. 28-Oct. 2 at the Air Force Personnel Center here for classes beginning in July 2010 and July 2011. Officers interested in applying should submit their applications to AFPC by Aug. 14, 2009. "The U.S Air Force test pilot
July 2, 2009 President signs bill authorizing changes to TSP for civilians On June 22, President Obama signed into law the Thrift Savings Plan Enhancement Act of 2009 as part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Public Law 111-31). One of the provisions of the new law eliminates the waiting period of appropriated fund civilian employees covered under
July 1, 2009 Airmen can now apply to transfer Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits The Department of Defense began accepting applications from Airmen to transfer Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits to dependents June 29. "The Post-9/11 GI Bill transfer of benefits option is a landmark benefit to eligible Airmen," said Lt. Gen. Richard Newton III, Air Force Personnel and Manpower deputy
June 24, 2009 AF officials announce officer selections The 2009A Line of the Air Force, Biomedical Science Corps, and Nurse Corps central selection boards recently selected 466 lieutenant colonels, 92 majors and 271 captains for promotion. The boards considered 4,156 lieutenant colonels, 729 majors and 407 captains for promotion. The results of the
June 22, 2009 Streamlined ancillary, expeditionary skills training eliminates redundancy New policy, released in March, streamlines redundant and outdated ancillary training programs and aligns expeditionary skills training with warfighter requirements. However, Air Force leaders recently addressed the time requirement to complete ancillary training, after discovering a common
June 16, 2009 Texas students to get taste of Air Force science, engineering Air Force Personnel Center officials here are looking to whet the appetites of young science, math and engineering students, so that they might later seek "blue chip" career paths, hopefully Air Force blue. Toward this end, AFPC's science and engineering career field management team have partnered
June 16, 2009 Air Force officials release technical sergeant selection statistics Air Force officials selected 7,724 of 37,172 eligible staff sergeants for promotion to technical sergeant for a selection rate of 20.78 percent. The average score for those selected was 319.69, with an average time in grade and time in service of 5.68 and 10.85 years respectively. The average score