Air Force launches Every Dollar Counts campaign

Airmen can submit their cost-reducing ideas via the Airmen Powered by Innovation websites while at home, the office or on their smartphones. With budgets shrinking, Air Force leaders are calling on Airmen to share their best money-saving ideas through the "Every Dollar Counts" campaign.In the wake

Joint base takes time to remember air advisors

Sailors develop 'Keep What You've Earned' campaign

Why do Sailors drink alcohol? What can the Navy do to prevent excessive drinking? Do existing alcohol abuse prevention strategies and messages affect Sailors decisions? The Navy Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Office asked these questions to more than 700 Sailors across the country last year in an

Boom goes the dynamite

Joint base families attend EFMP Resource Event

The Exceptional Family Member Program held an EFMP Resource Event April 17, 2013, at the Military and Family Support Center here. The event included 22 exhibitors who concentrated on the joint base's special-needs community. Exhibitors touched on issues ranging from autism spectrum disorder to

Family service members' group life insurance benefit changes

Service members married to other service members are no longer automatically enrolled in the Family Service members' Group Life Insurance program, Pentagon officials said.The change was effective Jan. 2, 2013, and to date affects about 4,500 service members, Coast Guard Cmdr. Kristen Martin, who

Military children see parents in action

Service member spotlight: change for the better

Staff Sgt. William Cleven, Marine Wing Support Squadron 472 communication electronics maintenance chief, is the joint base's featured service member of the week. Cleven hails from Las Vegas.Q: Why did you join the military?A: I joined the military to change my life for the better. I was in a

Leader shares challenges, successes, inspires at-risk youths

"Even though I grew up in the projects and I didn't go to school when I was young ...," said Command Sgt. Maj. Calvin Coler, 174th Infantry Brigade command sergeant major, to a packed class of at-risk teens April 19, 2013. "... I never did drink, and I never did smoke a day in my life. I knew once

Blue Star Families celebrate military children, Earth Day

Joint base families brought their children to the Blue Star Families' Appreciating Military Kids, Appreciating the Earth event April 27, 2013, at the Librar-e and Resource Commons here.The Books on Bases program incorporated raising awareness for both the Month of the Military Child and Earth Day.