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  • AFCEC construction enhances JBSA capabilities, quality of life 

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The Air Force Civil Engineer Center is optimizing mission and training capabilities and improving quality of life at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, through its multi-year construction effort. The current projects are a massive $388 million undertaking at three primary

  • EFMP Family Support offers individualized Family Needs Assessments

    Exceptional Family Member Program Airmen and Guardians are encouraged to have a Family Needs Assessment (FNA) conducted upon entry into EFMP, and then again as needs emerge and family situations change. Topics addressed in these assessments include, but are not limited to: concerns about relocation;

  • February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month

    February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness MonthNearly 26% women and 15% of men in the U.S. will experience physical, sexual, or emotional abuse from someone they’re in a relationship with before they become adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In order to spread

  • Introducing Sheppard's Privatized Housing Resident Advocates

    Recognizing a need to provide an intermediary to address past problems with privatized military housing and in an effort to continuously improve upon the care for active duty military, the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act introduced Privatized Housing Resident Advocates.

  • Guidance details dos and don'ts for participation in political demonstrations

    According to the FBI, individuals have planned “armed protests” to take place at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol in Washington leading up to and in the days following the upcoming presidential inauguration. In light of this information, and considering the violence that transpired at the

  • Strengthening family through diversity

    Between the vast waters of Lake Superior and woodlands stretching over 890,000 acres sits the Bay Mills Indian Community, traditionally called Gnoozhekaaning, Michigan, home to the Ojibwa or Chippewa tribe.Staff Sgt. Zachary Leblanc, 81st Security Forces Squadron supply NCO in charge, grew up in the

  • Updates to Thrift Savings Plan coming in 2021

    Each year, the Internal Revenue Service places limits on the dollar amount of contributions that can be contributed to the Thrift Savings Plan, or TSP. For 2021, the annual elective deferral and catch-up limits remain from 2020.