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  • Stop loss pay application window closing March 4

    The deadline for eligible members or legally designated beneficiaries to apply for Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay is coming to a close March 4.Almost 6,000 current and former Airmen have received a total of more than $19 million in special pay since Air Force Personnel Center officials here began

  • Stop loss special pay deadline nears

    Time is running for current and former Airmen previously affected by stop loss to apply for retroactive special pay as the Oct. 21 deadline approaches.Airmen eligible include active, retired and former members as well as Reserve component members who served on active duty while their enlistment or

  • Strategic leadership development available

    Civilian leadership development officials here are seeking nominations for an out-of-cycle selection board to identify senior-level civilians for strategic leadership development opportunities in the 2011 academic year.Strategic Leadership Education Level I is open to Air Force civil service

  • 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    New policy, released in March, streamlines redundant and outdated ancillary training programs and aligns expeditionary skills training with warfighter requirements.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

  • Student loan forgiveness takes effect in October

    The first forgiveness of student loan balances under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program goes into effect for government employees this October. The program offers forgiveness for remaining balances due on William D. Ford federal direct loans after employees have made at least 120 loan

  • Study to focus on Airmen's time

    A team, chartered by Lt. Gen. Richard Newton III, deputy chief of staff for manpower and personnel, will visit 10 Air Force bases to study the numerous strains on Airmen's time in today's resource-constrained environment. "We are at war and (operations) tempo is very high," General Newton said.

  • Substantiated sex-related offenses must be documented in official records

    Any complaint of a sex-related offense committed by an Airman occurring on or after Dec. 26, 2013 that resulted or results in conviction by court-martial, non-judicial punishment or punitive administrative action must be documented on the offender's enlisted performance report, officer performance

  • Sucide Prevention: Suicide Myth No. 2

    Suicide Myth No. 2: Most suicides happen suddenly without warning.Truth: 80 percent of suicides have been preceded by warning signs, whether verbal or behavioral. These signals often include making a joke or threat about suicide, making a reference to being dead, or giving away treasured

  • Sucide Prevention: Suicide Myth No. 2

    Suicide Myth No. 2: Most suicides happen suddenly without warning.Truth: 80 percent of suicides have been preceded by warning signs, whether verbal or behavioral. These signals often include making a joke or threat about suicide, making a reference to being dead, or giving away treasured

  • Suicide Myth #1

    Myth no. 1: Once someone is suicidal, he or she will always remain suicidal.Most suicidal people are desperately seeking a way out of unbearable emotional pain and are ambivalent about ending their own lives. Heightened suicide risk is often short-term and situation-specific. While suicidal thoughts