U.S. AIR FORCE NEWS

  • Cadets to sing at NBA All-Star Game

    The National Basketball Association has asked the Air Force Academy’s Cadet Chorale to sing the national anthem at the NBA All-Star Game in Denver on Feb. 20.The choir’s visit is part of the NBA’s salute to the servicemembers of the armed forces, and the cadets will be introduced by “The Admiral,”

  • Twice-yearly TSP 'open season' limitations end July 1

    Defense Department civilians and servicemembers building tax-free retirement accounts through the Thrift Savings Plan soon will be able to change their investment options at any time instead of just twice a year.Current biannual TSP "open season" investment-choice windows will end July 1, said Army

  • Airman spins the wheel to ‘Big Money’

    Personality and perseverance, mixed with a little luck, made an Airman here a big winner on the "Wheel of Fortune" game show which aired Feb. 17.The "Wheel Mobile" visited the base in November to screen potential contestants for future tapings. Applicants played a mock version of the game with a

  • Medals updated in personnel system

    Air Force officials have completed a batch update to currently reflect award of the Korean Defense Service Medal and Global War on Terrorism-Expeditionary Medal in the military personnel data system.Air Force Personnel Center officials here recently completed a mass decorations update for more than

  • Phone numbers change for Air Force civilian services

    Current and potential civilian employees in overseas areas now have the same access to the Air Force Customer Service Center as stateside employees.Now current employees can contact the Benefits and Entitlements Service Team automated phone systems by first dialing the toll-free direct access number

  • General Jumper: Air Force will uphold standards

    The Air Force will uphold its standards, and people who break the service’s core values “will pay the price,” the Air Force chief of staff said.Gen. John P. Jumper also told the more than 1,000 attendees at the Air Force Association’s annual Air Warfare Symposium here Feb. 17 the service will not

  • General Jumper charts course for future

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper gave a vector for the Air Force’s future during a speech Feb. 17 at the Air Force Association’s 2005 Air Warfare Symposium here.General Jumper followed Peter B. Teets, acting secretary of the Air Force, at the convention in which about 1,000 people

  • Teets: Air Force confident, strong, ready

    The acting secretary of the Air Force assured the Air Force Association here Feb. 17 the service is confident, strong and ready to face any threat.“And I know it will remain that way,” Peter B. Teets told about 1,000 attendees of the association’s annual Air Warfare Symposium. The association

  • Troops deployed in combat areas get tax credit options

    Servicemembers receiving federal tax exemptions for some or all of their military pay may now elect to apply for certain tax credit options, the chief of the Armed Forces Tax Council said here Feb. 17.Troops deployed to combat zones can now apply for tax refunds based on earned income tax credits,

  • Soldiers, Airman boost morale during ‘off time’

    The sound of a live, acoustic version of the Guns ’n’ Roses classic “Sweet Child O’ Mine” filtered through the base dining facility where Soldiers stationed here were gathered.The entertainment was not provided by a headliner on a United Service Organizations tour, but by servicemembers desiring to