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AFNS on January 10th, 2012
A new year often begins with resolutions to lose weight and get in shape. Air Force services officials recently launched a new program designed to help Airmen and families accomplish this common goal through proper nutrition and activity. The USAF FitFamily website now includes LivingFit,
Children
AFNS on January 6th, 2012
Deployment can be hard on a family. It can be even harder for a service member who would normally read their children a good night story but are not around to do so. However, the Pat Tillman Memorial United Services Organization here offers a service to
Health
AFNS on December 31st, 2011
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Despite questions about whether the Walgreens pharmacy chain will continue as a TRICARE provider, beneficiaries will have several options for filling prescriptions, Defense Department spokeswoman Eileen M. Lainez said today. The retail pharmacy contract between Express Scripts Inc., or ESI, and the Walgreens
Focus
AFNS on December 17th, 2011
With the excitement of the presidential primaries lurking around the corner, there are a few things Airmen must remember during this upcoming political season. When you joined the military or became a federal employee, you did so with the knowledge that this decision came with
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AFNS on December 14th, 2011
The National Guard unveiled its Vets4Warriors service members' counseling program at a Capitol Hill ceremony Dec. 13. Vets4Warriors is a toll-free, peer-to-peer counseling hotline that provides Guard members and Reserve component members with the ability to speak with counselors on the phone or online. Air Force
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AFNS on December 14th, 2011
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board has announced the 2012 elective deferral limit for regular Thrift Savings Plan contributions has increased from $16,500 to $17,000 for 2012, Air Force Personnel Center officials said. The TSP catch-up plan contribution limit will remain at $5,500. TSP
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AFNS on November 3rd, 2011
Columbus, Texas (AFNS) - A team of 18 special tactics Airmen have one objective in mind: honor the fallen.
The team recently began an 812-mile march from Medina Annex, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas to Hurlburt Field, Fla., to commemorate 17 fallen comrades. As they marched out at 5 a.m, carrying 50-pound rucksacks
Health
AFNS on November 2nd, 2011
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- An Institute of Medicine study released Oct. 31 found no evidence between exposure to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan and long-term health problems. A 14-member committee from the institute, a nonprofit health research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, could neither prove
Military Life
AFNS on October 7th, 2011
SAN ANTONIO (AFNS) -- Air Force Clubs officials are ready to send a club member and a guest to one of three National Football League games through the Football Frenzy promotion. Since 1995, more than 425 club members and guests have attended 64 regular and post-season NFL
Housing
AFNS on October 3rd, 2011
Pentagon officials are reminding service members stationed overseas to leave out cost-of-living pay when planning their personal budgets, due to fluctuations in the rate.
The cost-of-living allowance, or COLA, paid to those stationed outside of the continental United States to off-set foreign costs, routinely is affected by
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Airlifter Blog
AFNS on January 31st, 2012
The former commander of the 4th Airlift Squadron at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., is one of four service members to have been accepted into the 15-member 2011-2012 class of White House Fellows. Lt. Col. Rodney Lewis, a C-17A Globemaster III pilot, began his fellowship
Airlifter Blog
AFNS on January 14th, 2012
Air Force officials announced Jan. 10, the fiscal 2012 career job reservation program with 16 Air Force Specialty Codes placed on the constrained list. Career job reservations allows the Air Force to control the number of first-term Airmen re-enlisting in career fields where projected manning
Airlifter Blog
AFNS on January 11th, 2012
The Air Force chief of staff announced his latest professional reading list Jan. 6. In a letter to all Air Force personnel, Gen. Norton Schwartz said today's Airmen are among the military's best educated and most inquisitive. "We Airmen are innovators because we embrace the
Airlifter Blog
AFNS on January 1st, 2012
Registration for the Air Force Marathon will open Jan. 1, 2012, at midnight with a special one day-only price. For Jan. 1 only, the full marathon is $75; half marathon is $60; 10K is $35; and the 5K is $20. "We've offered special pricing on January 1st
Airlifter Blog
AFNS on December 22nd, 2011
In on-going efforts to continue to size and shape the force to current and future requirements, Air Force officials announced additional force management programs. The Air Force ended fiscal year 2011 about 1,200 Airmen over endstrength. For enlisted Airmen, voluntary programs from last year
Airlifter Blog
AFNS on December 14th, 2011
The hiring freeze implemented in August will be fully lifted Dec. 15, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced. The freeze, preceded by hiring controls, was one of several measures implemented in 2011 to bring manning down to mandated 2010 levels. In addition, voluntary separation incentives were recently
Airlifter Blog
AFNS on December 13th, 2011
NASA is accepting applications for astronaut candidates via the USAJobs website, through Jan. 12, 2012, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced. "Applicants who submit an application through the USAJobs site, must also do a separate application for the Air Force nomination board," said Howard Peterson,
Fort Lewis Blog
AFNS on December 5th, 2011
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta yesterday hosted a multi-starred Pentagon welcome for Iraq War veteran and "Dancing with the Stars" champion Jose Rene "J.R." Martinez.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, left, gets a dancing lesson from Army Iraq War veteran and "Dancing with the Stars" champion
Fort Lewis Blog
AFNS on November 6th, 2011
Later this month, a group of 17 family members who care for wounded warriors, as well as surviving spouses of fallen service members, will gather at Syracuse University in New York to learn how to start and run their own businesses.
Syracuse's Whitman School of Management will host
Airlifter Blog
AFNS on November 2nd, 2011
Air Force officials announced Oct. 28 plans to continue an enlisted date of separation rollback as part of its ongoing measures to manage the force and maintain a quality enlisted corps. The DOS rollback will accelerate the date of separation for selected Airmen in the grades of
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