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AFRC News

  • AF envisions smaller force to preserve readiness

    Discussing upcoming budgetary variables during a Pentagon news conference today, the Air Force's top civilian leader for the past six months addressed the inevitability of a smaller force.Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning, who is returning next week to his position as undersecretary of the Air

  • Hurricane season ends, slowest since 1966

    Nov. 30 marked the end of the slowest hurricane season since 1966 for the 403rd Wing's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, better known as the Hurricane Hunters."It was a very, very slow hurricane season," said Lt. Col. Jon Talbot, 53rd WRS chief meteorologist.  "Despite the predictions for an

  • Budget woes cause AF to refine funding priorities

    Budget battles here are causing tectonic shifts in the Air Force, the service's leaders said during a Pentagon news conference today.Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning and Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, the Air Force chief of staff, said that even with some relief from sequestration, the service will

  • Air Force's top officer outlines tough budget decisions

    With sequestration cemented as law into the foreseeable future, the Air Force's top officer today discussed some tough choices the service faces as its leaders try to pare $12 billion from the budget.In the final session of the Joint Chiefs of Staff series at the American Enterprise Institute here,

  • Senate confirms James as next secretary of the Air Force

    Deborah Lee James will be the next secretary of the Air Force, according to a Senate confirmation vote Dec 13. James provided testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee Sept. 19, before the full Senate voted on her confirmation. Now the president must appoint her before she can assume her new

  • AF to convene CMSgt retention board in June

    The Air Force will convene a chief master sergeant retention board in June to select chief master sergeants for retirement no later than Nov. 1, 2014, officials announced today.The fiscal 2014 Chief Master Sergeant Retention Program is one of several force management programs slated to be

  • FY14 force management to include senior NCO retention board

    Plans are underway to convene a June senior NCO retention board to consider eligible master sergeants and senior master sergeants for retirement, officials announced Dec. 12.The board is one of several fiscal 2014 force management measures that have been or will be implemented to transition toward a

  • AF officials announce FY14 civilian workforce shaping

    The Air Force will reduce the size of its civilian workforce by about 900 positions in addition to maintaining approximately 7,000 vacancies across the force to meet the demands of a constrained fiscal 2014 budget, officials announced. Specific reductions by location have not been determined.The Air

  • AF announces additional force management programs to reduce force size

    Air Force leaders announced force management programs Dec. 11 designed to reduce the force by thousands of Airmen over the next five years as a result of sequestration.Fiscal 2014 force management initiatives are in addition to the announcement made in July, stating the Air Force will implement

  • 440th Airlift Wing assists in 16th annual Operation Toy Drop

    It wasn't exactly Santa's sleigh flying across Fort Bragg, N.C., Saturday, Dec. 7...but it was close.More than 1,600 Soldiers braved cold, rainy conditions to parachute into the Sicily Drop Zone as part of Operation Toy Drop, a popular event that has steadily grown through the years to not only