May 15, 2019 Air University rolls out new ALS curriculum Academic experts at the Barnes Center took a look at the ALS curriculum and decided a new, modernized plan was overdue. Several of the more than 60 Airman Leadership Schools around the world are currently testing the course ahead of the Air Force-wide release scheduled for June 5.
May 15, 2019 Year of Defender revitalizes security forces squadrons Security forces is the largest enlisted career field in the Air Force with approximately 38,000 defenders spanning 120 bases. In order to better care for these Airmen and ensure they have everything they need to complete their mission, 2019 was declared – Year of the Defender – by top Air Force
May 14, 2019 Service secretaries tackle employment challenges for overseas spouses The joint memorandum directs each service assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs to support a tri-service team that seeks to understand the barriers to military spouse employment overseas. The team is expected to make recommendations to policies, programs and laws that would make
May 14, 2019 Air Force announces basing candidates for US Combatant Command for Space The secretary of the Air Force selected six locations as candidate bases to potentially host the headquarters for United States Space Command.
May 14, 2019 Hanscom AFB software teams decode F-35 maintenance Software teams from Hanscom Air Force Base are fielding applications that help aircraft maintainers at Nellis AFB, Nevada, plan for successful operational testing of the Air Force’s newest fighter, the F-35 Lightning II.
May 14, 2019 Air Force completes test of combat support innovation The Combat Support Wing proof-of-concept capstone exercise developed by the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center and hosted by Air Combat Command’s 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, tested the ability of three teams of about 30 Airmen each to establish
May 14, 2019 Building a weather-ready nation The purpose of the tour is to help create a weather-ready nation by raising awareness for the upcoming hurricane season occurring June 1 – Nov. 30, with an emphasis this year on raising awareness about inland flooding.
May 13, 2019 Air Force’s top recruiter climbs even higher Master Sgt. Gervacio Maldonado, a former Health Professions recruiter and now flight chief with the 318th Recruiting Squadron, was surprised and ecstatic when he learned winning the 2018 Maj. Gen. A.J. Stewart Top AFRS Recruiter award would take him even higher.
May 13, 2019 Army GLOs enable joint combat power, battlefield safety The Department of Defense receives a significant amount of its intelligence from the Air Force distributed common ground system, which is an enterprise of globally networked analysts and cyber professionals linked together by a global communications architecture.
May 13, 2019 Atlantic Stripe: Molding, mentoring and developing today’s NCO Multiple leaders came together from U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa, 3rd Air Force and NATO to provide various leadership perspectives to the class throughout the week.