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  • 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

  • Volunteer opportunity to recognize POW/MIA

    Volunteers are needed to support this year's 24-hour POW/MIA memorial ceremony outside the Retiree Activity Center here Nov. 13 at 2 p.m. More than 100 Airmen are needed to make this event run smoothly. Volunteers will need to commit an hour of their time to be scheduled during the 24-hour period of

  • Act ends controversial personnel system

    With President Barack Obama's signature today on the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, a controversial pay-for-performance personnel system is abolished. About 220,000 Defense Department employees who had come under the National Security Personnel System will transition back to the

  • Air Force updates guidance for wear of PTU

    Air Force officials have updated guidance for wear of the physical training uniform, replacing previous guidance published in Air Force Instruction36-2903. According to a message released from Air Force A1 and signed by Lt. Gen. Richard Y. Newton III, deputy chief of staff for Manpower and

  • Personnel Center officials expand service center hours for civilians

    To increase customer support to Air Force civilian employees and applicants around the world, officials at the Total Force Service Center have expanded the hours civilian personnel experts are available to discuss employment, benefits and entitlements. While service delivery representatives are