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  • Air Force selects 531 for promotion to chief master sergeant

    The Air Force has selected 531 senior master sergeants for promotion to chief master sergeant out of the 2,229 eligible. The overall selection rate was 23.82 percent with an average overall score for those selected of 506.82. Selectees’ average time in grade was 3.23 years and time in service was

  • Uruguay opens doors to AFROTC

    Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets visited Uruguay for the Uruguayan Air Force Academy’s 100th anniversary celebration, Nov. 22-25.

  • Reserve wing breaks graduation record

    The 512th Force Support Squadron’s Education and Training Office presented 109 Community College of the Air Force degrees to Airmen from more than 30 career fields during their graduation ceremony Dec. 3 at the base theater here.

  • 2 MWDs retire and find homes with their handlers

    The 81st Security Forces Squadron held a retirement ceremony for Densy and Ares, two military working dogs, at the Keesler Medical Center Don Wylie Auditorium Dec. 2, on Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. Normally retirees receive a pin to commemorate their time spent in the military. This ceremony

  • AETC launches Innovation Challenge

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxNDYHl2wZQThe AETC Innovation Challenge launches across the command today and continues through February 2017. AETC members are encouraged to submit innovative ideas for awards.“Every day, Airmen across our command find innovative ways to employ resources and get the

  • Successful load operation benchmark for JBSA

    Whenever worldwide crises require a rapid, hu­manitarian response from the U.S. Air Force, the 502nd Logistics Readiness Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland is ready to answer the call. The squadron successfully processed and loaded more than nine tons of medical cargo onto an aircraft at

  • F-35 begins integrated training with F-16 at Luke

    In October, pilots of the 56th Fighter Wing began flying integrated direct support practice sorties in the F-35 Lightning II and the F-16 Fighting Falcon for the first time as a regular component of the training curriculum at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. The integrated training comes as part of the

  • Air Force’s only MTL schoolhouse refocuses on development, integration

    The 81st Training Support Squadron’s Military Training Leader Course recently graduated its first class of MTLs, using the schoolhouse’s new course curriculum.The four-week course, upped from two weeks, boasts a level of hands-on, practical application that is nearly unprecedented within traditional

  • Air Force promotions eliminates time-in-grade, time-in-service points

    Time-in-grade and time-in-service points in active duty enlisted promotion consideration will be eliminated beginning with the 17E7 master sergeant promotion cycle, and all future promotion cycles, the Air Force recently announced. This is the final step in a gradual reduction of points for TIG/TIS