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  • Officials look for best, brightest to fill first sergeant positions

    Taking care of today's Airmen is the responsibility of everyone in leadership and supervisory positions in the Air Force. But, for a select group of senior non-commissioned officers, this specific mission is their primary job. Air Force first sergeants are the eyes and ears of a unit and serve as

  • Defense officials suspend separation payment recoupment

    Recoupment of military retirees' Variable Separation Incentive, Special Separation Benefit and separation payments by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service has been temporarily suspended pending a formal policy and legal review by Department of Defense officials. The suspension of recoupment

  • Members of 108th ARW deploy to Southwest Asia

    More than 80 members of the 108th Air Refueling Wing left recently for a deployment to Southwest Asia. They are the first half of the deployers who will be spending two months on a refueling mission there. Wing members from maintenance, flight records, operations, aircraft flight equipment and

  • AFMC senior leader reflects on suicide close to home

    With a phone call on the night of Jan. 29, the "You Matter" suicide campaign at Robins suddenly became more personal to Maj. Gen. Polly Peyer. The commander of Warner Robins Air Logistics Center suspected something was wrong when the phone rang at 9 p.m. because most people who would be calling her

  • McGuire Air Force Base congratulates its newest master sergeant selects

    Recently, the U.S. Air Force announced its newest master sergeant selects.  Here are the names of those stationed here at Joint Base McGuire-DIx-Lakehurst:87th Air Base Wing MSgt Daniel D. Babcock MSgt Scott A. Beard MSgt Alva S. Benjamin, Jr. MSgt Melanie J. Boswell MSgt Jason S. Caldwell MSgt

  • Biden announces housing assistance program expansion

    Vice President Joe Biden May 14 announced the Defense Department's plan to expand its housing assistance program with $555 million devoted to servicemembers forced to sell their homes at a loss due to the country's struggling housing market. The financial support comes from President Barack Obama's

  • New online application added to voluntary assignments

    Air Force officials recently introduced a new Web-based application that allows Airmen to withdraw or cancel a voluntary assignment from their desks at their convenience. Voluntary assignments are assignments that are self-initiated and that Airmen can apply for on their own. They differ from normal

  • Air Force leaders chart way forward for service

    The Air Force has made tough choices and some prudent trade-offs to balance the service across the spectrum of capabilities needed for the future, Air Force leaders said. Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz discussed the service's efforts to