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  • 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.

  • Deployed captain leaves lasting manpower footprint

    When Capt. Jody Palmer arrived at his deployment destination in Southwest Asia, his initial goal was to learn his job quickly, so there would be no drop off in his unit's mission. Earlier this year, he temporarily put aside his duties as a flight commander at the Air Force Manpower Agency's 1st

  • AFoffers incentive pay at Creech

    Air Force officials have authorized assignment incentive pay, or AIP, for Airmen assigned to and performing duty at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., effective immediately. Airmen who meet the eligibility criteria will receive $300 AIP per month for the first 36 months assigned to a Creech AFB unit, and

  • AFPC personnelist named Outstanding Airman of the Year

    With the holiday weekend pending, Master Sgt. Carla Curry thought the mandatory all-call on the front steps of the Air Force Personnel Center here July 3 signified a safety briefing.Little did she know her career was about to change radically, in front of almost 2,600 members of AFPC. "Major General

  • AFPC on target to complete AEF merger

    Vince Fonner walks into the newly constructed operations center at the Air Force Personnel Center here to check on a couple of new high-resolution monitors. He nods his approval as workers begin to carefully position them in the work areas. Although some keyboard trays need to be installed and a few

  • Air Force prepared for largest virtual promotion release

    The Air Force Personnel Center here will post selection lists for technical and master sergeant promotions on the Air Force Portal and AFPC public and military Web sites June 26 at 8 a.m. Central Time. This will be the third major enlisted promotion release using the new Web-based process, and by

  • Final record scan moves AFPC closer to total virtual service

    There were no cakes, ribbons or special dignitaries on hand June 3 when Blanca Rubio, a contract scanning team leader at the Air Force Personnel Center here, performed an electronic scan of the Air Force's last paper unit personnel record. However, according to Sharon Hogue, chief of AFPC's Master

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