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News

  • Prescription meds: Proceed with caution

    With a steady military healthcare system and a variety of medical resources in the Air Force, it can be difficult for some Airmen to ensure their prescribed medications are current. When Airmen ignore inspecting their medicine cabinets they risk possible damage to their careers and, more

  • Vandenberg adds three to Air Force's top enlisted rank

    Congratulations to Vandenberg's new chief master sergeant selects: Senior Master Sgt. Alexia Brown, 30th Comptroller Squadron Senior Master Sgt. Frank Fidani, 614 Air and Space Operations CenterSenior Master Sgt. Robert Rucinski, 30th Civil Engineer Squadron Only 1 percent of the Air Force's

  • Team V's MFCOs know how to "Track 'Em or Crack 'Em!"

    On any given day of a launch at Vandenberg, a group of operators in the Mission Flight Control Center here begin to feel the full effects of both excitement and stress as the countdown to launch nears. While spectators come from all around to witness the spectacle of a launch at Vandenberg, an elite

  • President signs Defense Authorization Act

    President Barack Obama signed the fiscal 2010 National Defense Authorization Act during a ceremony at the White House Oct. 28. President Obama hailed the act, which contains $680.2 billion in military budget authority, as transformational legislation that targets wasteful defense spending. The

  • Defense officials receive first H1N1 vaccine shipments

    Defense Department officials have started receiving H1N1 vaccines and will begin distributing doses in the coming weeks. The Health and Human Services Department is distributing the vaccines, manufactured by four producers, to the department. Because rates of production vary among the manufacturers,

  • AFRC hosts week-long Discovery Center tour

    The Airman and Family Readiness Center here is hosting a Discovery Center tour here from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 2-6. The AFRC is offering the week-long tour as part of the Year of the Air Force Family. "The Discovery Center tour is an informational tour of Vandenberg's Airman and Family Readiness

  • Vandenberg's 2009 CFC is underway

    The 2009 Combined Federal Campaign is in full swing at Vandenberg. The four-week fundraising drive, which began at Oct. 26, is scheduled to run through Nov. 20. "With this year's condensed CFC campaign schedule, we will not have a kickoff event," said Capt. Jeremy Grant, Vandenberg's deputy CFC