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  • Carter: DOD will prevail against uncertainty

    The Defense Department will prevail against both strategic and budgetary uncertainty, Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter told members of the military community April 16.Carter spoke to service members and civilian employees during a visit to Scott Air Force Base, Ill. The base is home to U.S.

  • Vandenberg focuses on people, mission during DoD budget cuts

    Under sequestration, signed into law as part of the 2011 Budget Control Act, installations across the Air Force made reductions to conform to the $85 billion mandated federal budget cuts. Vandenberg has not been exempt from these cuts and the base has already taken steps to implement reductions

  • Training for Trauma

     Imagine receiving a dispatch call describing a bicyclist having been struck by a vehicle on the highway outside of base. Unless the person receiving the call is a trained dispatcher, helicopter pilot, doctor, and can travel through time, coordination between several on and off-base helping agencies

  • Stratcom Shares Space Data to Promote Safety, Transparency

    Committed to promoting safety and transparency in the space domain, U.S. Strategic Command maintains a registry of tens of thousands of man-made objects in space and shares the information freely with anyone who seeks it through a command-run website.Air Force Space Command, recognizing that

  • Base food service ‘transforms’

    By The word "transform" could induce thoughts of vehicles in a certain popular movie series that change into mega-machines from another planet that save the world.Subtract the alien factor, and Vandenberg's Food Transformation isn't unlike those heroic cars. This initiative provides healthier menu

  • Air Force restarts tuition assistance

    The Air Force has officially restarted military tuition assistance, effective immediately. The service restarted the program as a result of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013, where Congress called for the MTA program to continue in the current fiscal year. As a

  • Sexual assault awareness 'begins at top'

    To combat and put an end to sexual assault in the military, the Defense Department has designed programs to boost victim medical care, increase assault reporting and hold offenders accountable for their crimes, the director of the Pentagon's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office said here

  • DOD releases FY 14 defense budget proposal

    President Barack Obama today sent to Congress a proposed defense budget of $526.6 billion in discretionary budget authority to fund defense programs in the base budget for fiscal year (FY) 2014. The budget continues the department's commitment to good stewardship of taxpayer dollars by seeking

  • Savings for the “Mass’”

    With the current uncertain fiscal climate, most Americans are looking for ways to stretch their dollar. Vandenberg has an option that turns public transportation into an investment.The Mass Transportation Benefit Program replaced the broken Ride Share program, which allows active duty military

  • TRICARE expands assistance to reduce tobacco use

    The Defense Department is committed to helping troops, their families and all beneficiaries of the TRICARE health care plan reduce their reliance on tobacco products, a TRICARE official said here today.During an interview with American Forces Press Service and the Pentagon Channel, Paul Fitzpatrick,

 

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