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Jan. 5, 2024
AF Year in Photos

This year's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This annual feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
May 2, 2023
Building the culture we need: CMSAF hosts Senior Enlisted Summit

The summit underscored an ongoing effort to continue to build and refine a Department of the Air Force culture that is ready and equipped for strategic competition and capable of projecting air warfighting capabilities at a moment’s notice.
April 11, 2022
Air Force clarifies policies for pregnant aircrew

These changes, implemented in 2019, represent data-driven policy adjustments, to include pushing some authorities down to the lowest level possible.
March 10, 2022
Kendall, Brown, Raymond outline changes necessary to defend the nation, the need to go fast and succeed

Speaking separately at an influential gathering two blocks from the White House March 9, the Department of the Air Force’s highest ranking civilian and military leaders offered emphatic variations on a similar theme – the need to modernize faster, think faster, and nurture the cultures needed to
March 6, 2021
PT test pushed to July, more updates forthcoming

When assessments resume, the three-component fitness test (1.5-mile run, 1 minute of push-ups and sit-ups) will be reset with scores calculated on a new three-component scoring table. In addition, work is underway to separate scoring into five-year age groups as opposed to the previous 10 – for
Jan. 15, 2021
Barrett praises senior Air Force leaders; assesses her tenure as secretary

Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett publicly praised Airmen, Guardians, and senior Air and Space Forces leaders during a ceremony at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Jan. 14.
Jan. 5, 2021
Department of the Air Force directs commanders to review unit emblems, mottos, nicknames, other official symbology

The Department of the Air Force directed commanders to conduct a comprehensive review of official and unofficial unit emblems, morale patches, mottos, nicknames, coins and other forms of unit recognition and identity to ensure an inclusive and professional environment within 60 days from Dec. 23,
Sept. 16, 2020
Department of the Air Force pushes fitness testing to Jan. 1

To continue minimizing close contact among personnel during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and ensure units and personnel are fully ready to resume, testing has been delayed from October to January, and testing in January will move forward without obtaining waist, height and weight measurements.
Sept. 2, 2020
CSAF outlines strategic approach for Air Force success

In his first major pronouncement as Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr., declared Aug. 31 that the service must go fast, collaborate more effectively with Congress and military, industry and allied partners, and “accelerate the transition from the force we have to the force required
Aug. 24, 2020
Air Force top officials visit JBSA missions for first combined trip

Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett was accompanied by newly sworn-in Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Charles Brown, Jr. and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force JoAnne Bass to take a closer look at operations across Joint Base San Antonio during COVID-19.