Jan. 6, 2014 Enlisted quality force review board to be held in May A quality force review board will convene here May 5-16 to consider eligible Airmen for retention, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced recently.The board is one of several fiscal 2014 force management programs that have been or will be implemented to help achieve manpower and force
Jan. 6, 2014 AF to convene enhanced selective early retirement board in June The Air Force will convene an enhanced selective early retirement board here June 16 to consider eligible officers for early retirement, Air Force Personnel Center officials said today. ESERB, a new authority granted in the fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, applies to regular,
Jan. 3, 2014 DOD announces recertification of imminent danger areas Today, the Defense Department announced the recertification of some locations as imminent danger pay areas while discontinuing that designation for others. A periodic review and recertification was conducted for Imminent Danger Pay (IDP) purposes and was made in coordination with the joint staff,
Jan. 3, 2014 Force support squadron earns AFRC awards Air Force Reserve Command named the 477th Force Support Squadron's military personnel program best in the command and bestowed top honors to its operations officer Dec 6.For the second year in a row, the squadron's military personnel section earned the AFRC-level Gerrit D. Foster, Jr., Award as the
Dec. 31, 2013 Niagara installs energy saving sensor lighting At home, there was always someone to remind us to turn off the lights when leaving a room. Not necesarily so in the workplace. To remedy this, the 914th Airlift Wing recently installed occupancy sensors in a number of buildings to automatically turn off the lights when a room is left unoccupied for
Dec. 30, 2013 Obama signs $633 billion defense authorization act President Barack Obama signed the $633 billion fiscal 2014 National Defense Authorization Act into law Dec. 26.The legislation allows the department to institute pay raises, bonuses and incentive pay, including a 1 percent pay raise for Air Force reservists and other military personnel. The act
Dec. 30, 2013 Air Force's newest leader takes charge The Air Force's 23rd Secretary of the Air Force was formally sworn in, Dec. 20, in the Pentagon.Deborah James assumed the position of the Air Force's highest ranking leader, making her the second female in Air Force history to serve in the role. As James takes on her new duties, she said she knows
Dec. 30, 2013 Obama-signed Bill Provides Military Pay, Bonuses President Barack Obama today signed House Resolution 3304, which provides pay and bonuses for U.S. service members, enhances counterterrorism efforts overseas, builds security capacities of key U.S. partner-nations, expands efforts to prevent sexual assault and strengthens protections for
Dec. 27, 2013 Looking for trouble Master Sgt. Michael W. Rosato, Jr., 445th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron jet engine craftsman, looks for any damage or irregularity during a post flight inspection on a C-17A Globemaster III engine here Dec.17.
Dec. 26, 2013 Youngstown family lends a hand with Toys for Tots Air Force Reserve Master Sgt. John Martinelli, an electrician assigned to the 910th Civil Engineer Squadron, loads a "Toys for Tots" collection box with a variety of toys at the Community Activity Center here, Dec. 19, 2013. Each year 910th Airlift Wing Citizen Airmen and Department of Defense