Holly Petraeus touts financial protection resources availabe through CFPB

You walk in to the car dealership, fresh out of basic training, and you're ready to buy your first car. Papers get signed, and you walk away feeling like a million bucks with a shiny new key in your hand. A month later, reality sets in when the first payment decimates your paycheck.Servicemembers

CAF domains like ‘legs on a chair’

Comprehensive Airman Fitness promotes a holistic approach to health in four domains:  mental, physical, social and spiritual.The Air Force Instruction for CAF, AFI 90-506, hit the streets in April 2014, but the new instruction doesn't make comprehensive fitness a new lifestyle concept.Air Combat

CMSAF visits Vance Airmen, addresses concerns

Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James Cody and his wife, retired Chief Master Sgt. Athena Cody, spent two days addressing the concerns of Vance Airmen Oct. 14 and 15."This is not our first visit to Enid and to Vance, but it is our first visit in this capacity," said Cody. "(This visit) was an

Officer Training School graduates first total force class

Air Force Officer Training School moved one step closer to complete total force integration with its first-ever simultaneous graduation of active duty, Reserve and Air National Guard officer trainees Oct. 10, 2014.The first graduating class of fiscal year 2015, which consisted of 193 new second

Laughlin pilot receives highest aviation safety award

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III presented the service's top safety award, the Koren Kolligian Jr. Trophy, to a pilot from Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, during a ceremony Oct. 8, at the Pentagon.The recipient, Lt. Col. William E. Lee, received the honor for his actions during a solo

Trainees take final obstacle course run at JBSA-Lackland

Lackland TRS to host Afghan maintenance personnel

The 37th Training Wing, will make history by setting the training foundation for 90 Afghan maintainers in a first-of-its-kind training at the 318th Training Squadron Inter-American Air Forces Academy."Our specialty at IAAFA is providing maintenance training in Spanish to our Latin America partner

Lackland medical wing emphasizes deployment readiness training

More than 2,000 Airmen from the 59th Medical Wing ascend on a training site at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland every year. Their arrival marks the organization's commitment to medical readiness training and its support for contingency operations around the world.Military members receive the biennial

Altus Airmen deliver aid to Liberia

Ten Airmen from the 97th Air Mobility Wing delivered humanitarian and medical supplies to Liberia Sept. 25 - Oct. 3, 2014, in support of Operation United Assistance to provide aid to the Ebola stricken region.The Ebola virus epidemic has grown since March 2014, killing thousands in Africa and

BMT trainees complete last run on closing obstacle course

Air Force basic military trainees completed the obstacle course at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland for the last time before it closed Sept. 24.A new course, called the Leadership Reaction Course, was integrated into Creating Leaders, Airmen, and Warriors - or CLAW - mission at basic expeditionary