May 5, 2015 Air Force employee named as Service to America Medals finalist An Air Force leader was announced May 4 as a finalist for the 2015 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, which highlight America’s dedicated civil servants who made significant contributions to the nation.
May 5, 2015 USDA dogs sniff out snakes With the utilization of 17 active-detector dog teams, 3,400 traps and toxicants, the U.S. Department of Agriculture captured approximately 8,300 brown tree snakes on Guam last year.
May 5, 2015 DOD Lab Day to showcase groundbreaking technologies The Air Force Research Laboratory will have a unique opportunity to showcase some of its groundbreaking technologies at the first ever Department of Defense Lab Day to be held at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., May 14.
May 5, 2015 Emerald Warrior-15 a complete success More than 2,100 members participated in Emerald Warrior, an annual Air Force Special Operations Command two-week joint service, interagency and partner nation exercise that concluded here May 1.
May 5, 2015 Active-duty Airmen to have direct access to physical therapy clinics The Air Force Medical Operations Agency has recently directed all Air Force military treatment facilities (MTF) to establish direct access physical therapy clinics for active-duty members. The policy shift will now allow an active-duty member with an acute musculoskeletal injury to make an
May 5, 2015 Website improves, simplifies military child care search With frequent moves, Air Force families face the challenging, and often frustrating task of making new child care arrangements every few years. A new Defense Department website is helping ease those moving transitions by simplifying the search and registration process for child care.
May 5, 2015 AF celebrates Public Service Recognition Week PSRW is a nation-wide campaign to recognize people who serve the nation as federal, state, county and local government employees. It's to highlight their contributions and to say “thank you for your service.”
May 4, 2015 Global Strike maintainers win 2014 AF-level maintenance award The men and women of Air Force Global Strike Command's Logistics, Installation and Mission Support Directorate recently earned the 2015 Gen. Wilbur L. Creech Maintenance Excellence Award. The award is given to the major command demonstrating the most improved performance in the category of aircraft
May 4, 2015 Retired military working dog relieves Airmens’ stress When Tech. Sgt. Ashley-Marie Umstead adopted retired military working dog (MWD), Sato, she said the 5-year-old Belgian Malinois needed something constructive to do with his robust energy and instincts.
May 4, 2015 Brothers in arms fly together Members of the U.S. military oftentimes have relatives that serve alongside them, and this is the case for the Allen brothers, they were recently reunited at exercise Max Thunder 15-1 in South Korea.