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  • Football Frenzy winners to attend NFL game

    Four members of Air Force clubs are the winners of a trip to attend a regular season NFL game between the Carolina Panthers and the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, Ariz., Nov. 1.The club members were drawn from nearly 3,000 entries received during the first six weeks of the Air Force Services

  • Nominees sought for 2010 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year Award

    Officials at the Air Force Personnel Center recognition programs section here are requesting nominations for the 2010 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year Award. Nominations are due to AFPC by April 22, 2010. There are three categories for award--Airman, NCO, and Senior NCO. The period of service for

  • Additional AFROTC instructor positions available to ARC officers

    Additional Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps instructor positions have been made available to Air Reserve Component personnel under the AFROTC Limited Period Recall Program. AFROTC instructor positions are available for ARC captains, majors and lieutenant colonels only. Information on

  • New era in food service coming to Air Force bases

    The Air Force has been meeting the dining needs of Airmen and their families for more than 60 years through dining facilities, clubs and snack bars. To reflect changing times, a new look and feel is coming to the Air Force dining experience at select bases, mirroring a college "community commons."

  • Eglin salutes the Year of the Air Force Family

    Supervisors, co-workers and friends come and go, but family is forever. This is the underlying theme in the coming months as Eglin leaders will focus on the meaning, needs and strengths of the Air Force family during the Year of the Air Force Family. YoAFF began in July and lasts to July 2010.

  • Change in post-deployment stabilization promotes predictability, equality

    The recent deployment deferment policy change institutionalizes an equitable deferment period of six months for Airmen completing 365-day indeterminate TDYs or unaccompanied, short tour permanent change of station.  Prior to the release of the new Air Force Instruction 36-2110, which formalized the

  • Air Force teams earn gold medals at Armed Forces softball championships

    The Air Force men's and women's softball teams earned gold medals at the Armed Forces Slow-Pitch Softball Championships Sept. 25 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla. The Air Force women's team went 6-3 during the tournament and won their third Armed Forces title in three years. They finished the

  • Reserve, retired rated officers given active-duty opportunity

    ­The secretary of the Air Force has initiated two voluntary recall to active duty programs and expanded the number of eligible Air Force specialties for an existing one to help minimize the service's critical shortage of rated officers."The rapid expansion of unmanned aircraft systems as well as

  • AFSVA announces 2009 Air Force Club Membership scholarship winners

    Twenty-five individuals were recently selected to receive $1,000 scholarships through the Air Force Services Club Membership Scholarship Program. Club members and their families were given the opportunity to submit a 500-word essay on "The High Cost of Freedom." A total of 154 entries were submitted

  • Permissive PCS policy discontinued

    Air Force officials have announced a recent change to the permissive PCS policy. The permissive permanent change of station program will be discontinued. However, other policies have changed lifting restrictions from the join spouse and base-of-preference programs.  "For years we have allowed our