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  • DOD to observe Constitution Day, Citizenship Day on Sept. 17

    The Department of Defense will observe Constitution Day and Citizenship Day Sept. 17 to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia on that day in 1787. "Our Airmen are stationed and deployed around the world protecting the freedoms embodied in our Constitution," said Chief

  • AFPC commander discusses personnel support for deployed Airmen

    The commander of the Air Force Personnel Center discussed how her agency continues to improve its support of deployed Airmen during a visit here Aug. 27. AFPC is streamlining how it tracks deployments and reexamining how it balances deployments with assignments and training, said Maj. Gen. K.C.

  • AFPC expertise raises manning for 31 critical skills career fields

    Thirty-one critical skills career fields received a boost in manning recently when 1,888 volunteers were accepted for retraining. This number included 315 exception-to-policy Airmen who were contacted for the first time and approved by personnel experts at the Air Force Personnel Center here.

  • Formal training sustains AF readiness, aids Airmen

    Formal training managers at the Air Force Personnel Center here are committed to ensuring Airmen are provided adequate time to prepare for their formal training classes, and that every Airman who needs to attend, has the opportunity. Empty seats due to 'no shows' have an impact on the entire Air

  • AF senior NCO graduates Coast Guard academy with honors

    For one Air Force senior noncommissioned officer, the Air Force "re-bluing" process that comes with attending professional military education came with an aquamarine twist. Master Sgt. Ron Pompa recently completed the U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Academy at the Coast Guard Training Center in

  • AFPC testing fix for electronic forms

    Air Force Personnel Center officials here are confident that the developer of the Air Force's electronic forms program/viewer will have a final solution in the next few weeks to fix the blank line issue with electronic evaluations forms. An ongoing review of electronic evaluations revealed problems

  • Air Force officials announce staff sergeant selections

    Air Force officials selected 12,209 of 28,098 eligible senior airmen for promotion to staff sergeant for a selection rate of 43.45 percent. The average score for those selected was 268.39, with an average time in grade and time in service of 2.25 and 4.85 years respectively. The average score was

  • Airmen feedback essential to additional duty study

    Airmen may now take advantage of a free-form text questionnaire, readily identifying additional duties they believe are non-value added or need redesigning. The Air Force Manpower Agency here will use this feedback to assist in the Air Force's drive to reduce additional duty demands in order to free

  • Retraining gives NCOs opportunity to shape their careers

    The Air Force is seeking volunteers to accept jobs in more than 1,077 shortage career field and special duty positions during the 2009 Noncommissioned Officer Retraining Program which began Aug. 1. The Air Force especially needs NCOs to choose opportunities to conduct investigative work in the

  • 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.

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