TRICARE begins home delivery education initiative

TRICARE beneficiaries who still get two or more maintenance prescriptions from a retail pharmacy should start checking their mailboxes. TRICARE Management Activity and Express Scripts Inc. are mailing out home delivery education "alert" letters to promote pharmacy home delivery.The alerts focus on

VA officials urge veterans to get tested on National HIV Testing Day

June 27th is National HIV Testing Day and Department of Veterans Affairs officials will be promoting and offering testing to veterans at VA medical facilities across the nation."Everyone should be tested for HIV/AIDS because early detection saves lives," said VA Secretary Eric K, Shinseki. "The

Base Exchange takes hassle out of taking it home with Sears home delivery

Beginning July 15, 2011, the Vandenberg Base Exchange is taking the hassle and expense out of getting new furniture, appliances and mattresses home and installed by partnering with Sears Home Delivery. Through the new service, shoppers making purchases prior to 3 p.m. often can schedule delivery for

Partnership links military spouses with employers

June 23, 2011 - Defense Department officials are launching a new partnership June 29 that's intended to expand job opportunities for military spouses by connecting them with employers actively seeking to hire them.Microsoft, Home Depot, Starbucks and the Navy Federal Credit Union are just a few of

AF clubs offers scholarships

For the 15th year in a row, the Air Force Services Club Program will award $25,000 in scholarship funds. The Air Force Services Club Membership Scholarship Program is a club member-only program intended to help club members and their families defray the cost of higher education. Twenty-five winners

Vandenberg's decontamination team gets training, exceeds expectations

Members of Vandenberg's 30th Medical Group received In Place Patient Decontamination training here June 16. The purpose of the training was to prepare the IPPD team to respond to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear catastrophes. The team is responsible for decontaminating individuals who

Officials announce E-6 selection stats

Air Force officials selected 8,545 of 34,257 eligible staff sergeants for promotion to technical sergeant, for a selection rate of 24.94 percent.The average score for those selected was 320.48, with an average time-in-grade of 5.55 years and an average time-in-service of 10.61 years. The average

2011 AFA Outstanding Air Force Civilians of the Year announced

Air Force officials announced the winners of the 2011 Air Force Association Outstanding Air Force Civilian of the Year awards.Each year, the AFA recognizes four Air Force civilian employees for outstanding achievement in any career field. This year's recipients were:Civilian wage employee of the

Team Vandenberg conducts Minuteman III flight test

A scheduled unarmed operational test Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launch occurred at 6:35 a.m. June 22 from Launch Facility-10 here. Inclement downrange weather and an interruption in communication with the Airborne Launch Control System led to unprogrammed holds in the

E-6B Mercury ready to support Minuteman III launch