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  • Airman's Roll Call: leave management

    This week's Airman's Roll Call focuses on leave management, and as many Airmen are aware of a few days away from work can have a beneficial effect them. Therefore, an aggressive leave program is an essential military requirement. A recent policy change increased the number of days members may accrue

  • New rules give Airmen more choices in death gratuity benefit designation

    Beginning July 1, Airmen will be able to select one or more persons of their choosing to receive death gratuity benefits. "This is a significant change to the DG benefits election option for all Airmen," said Steven Kelley, director of Air and Space Expeditionary Force Operations at the Air Force

  • Drunk driver injures Airman's family

    It's no secret that drinking and driving will put you in jail and has the potential to end your Air Force career. What some don't consider is that drinking and driving can also end somebody else's life. In California there were 1,597 alcohol related fatalities in 2006 and 31,099 alcohol related

  • Airmen battle heat, insurgents at North Star

    A straight line of four Airmen moved swiftly through the 100 degree heat and the unforgiving terrain surrounding the North Star exercise deployment area. "Watch out up ahead, there is plenty of poison oak to go around," said Senior Airman Steven Crosseley, a 30th Security Forces Squadron member. The

  • DoD program reaches out to AF families with special needs

    "We've become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams," said former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Because the military is a cross-section of America, this is also true of servicemembers and their families.

  • New state law on driving with cell phones goes into effect

    Two new California state laws dealing with the use of wireless telephones while driving go into effect Tuesday. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation that prohibits the use of handheld mobile phones while driving in the state. California Vehicle Code 23123 states all

  • SFS goes unmanned over Vandenberg

    Everyday thousands of Team Vandenberg members come together and work as a single force to further space power on California's central coast. It takes exactly one unauthorized personnel in a critical area during a launch window to shut the operation down and none to put it back on track. This isn't a

  • AAFES' begins theft awareness program

    In an effort to decrease nationwide shoplifting trends, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service Loss Prevention Office at Vandenberg offered an awareness program for base youth June 17. The program, which is for children 12 and under, is meant to deter children from shoplifting by showing them the

  • Five Years of 'Gifts from the Homefront'

    At the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003, the late Maj. Gen. Kathryn Frost, the Army & Air Force Exchange Services' (AAFES') commander at the time, immediately recognized the need for a program that not only supported troops downrange, but one that could also alleviate the crush of

  • Air Force prepared for largest virtual promotion release

    The Air Force Personnel Center here will post selection lists for technical and master sergeant promotions on the Air Force Portal and AFPC public and military Web sites June 26 at 8 a.m. Central Time. This will be the third major enlisted promotion release using the new Web-based process, and by

 

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