Travel website helps determine risks when planning events

Returning from deployment, getting ready for marriage, a promotion and three-day weekends are just some of the occasions in which Airmen take the time to plan and schedule leave.Planning for a good time on leave is not only limited to the destination, however. The element of safety can be properly

Simulator to provide students with hands-on ICBM training

The 381st Training Group is slated to introduce a new training tool to the schoolhouse's curriculum for missile maintenance and intercontinental ballistic missile officers.The training group is preparing to implement the use of their newly constructed Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Virtual

Keesler AFB, Vandenberg AFB Airmen build missile maintenance trainer

Airmen from the 81st Training Support Squadron Simware section here are partnering with Airmen from the 532nd Training Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to build an ICBM maintenance virtual trainer.The importance of this training system can't be overstated as acquisition of the IMVT is

EOD memorial ceremony honors 15 fallen heroes

"We assemble here today to remember the sacrifice of (explosive ordnance disposal) technicians and comfort their loved ones left behind."With those words, Navy Capt. Adam Guziewicz, the Naval School EOD commander, welcomed almost 3,000 people to the 42nd annual memorial service honoring EOD

AF lodging officials announce new payment procedures

As part of the Air Force's recent implementation of the new Citibank controlled spend account travel cards, funding for lodging costs will be pre-loaded on the card once authorization is approved in the Defense Travel System.As a result of the CSA travel card implementation, Air Force Inns guests

U.S. will defeat terrorists, Obama tells troops

The skill and courage of countless American military and intelligence professionals are why Osama bin Laden can never threaten America again, President Barack Obama told a cheering group of 101st Airborne Soldiers May 6 at Fort Campbell, Ky.President Obama told them about meeting yesterday with

Vandenberg opens new Community Center

Safety first to Team V motorcycle riders

President Proclaims Military Spouse Appreciation Day

President Barack Obama has declared May 6 Military Spouse Appreciation Day. In his proclamation issued May 5, the president said: "Military spouses serve as steady and supportive partners to the heroes in uniform who protect and defend our great Nation every day. Across America and around the world,

Airman sentenced at court-martial for cocaine use

A senior airman assigned to the 30th Civil Engineer Squadron was sentenced with a reduction to the grade of E-2, restriction to Vandenberg AFB for two months, and hard labor without confinement for three months, for the use of cocaine on two separate occasions at a general court-martial held here