• Officials announce E-5 selection stats

    Air Force officials here selected 11,337 of 26,549 eligible senior airman for promotion to staff sergeant for a selection rate of 42.70 percent.The average score for those selected was 275.56, with an average time in grade of 1.88 years and an average time in service of 4.44 years. The average score

  • B-1 nose art competition ends Aug. 20

    The 7th Maintenance Group is sponsoring a B-1 nose art competition to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy. The winner of the competition will get his/her drawing placed on a B-1 aircraft. To submit a nose art, follow the guidelines below and submit to 7bwpa@dyess.af.mil. To vote

  • Air Force releases updated dress and appearance instructions

    The Air Force's instruction on dress and personal appearance recently received an appearance upgrade with the release of the updated instruction on July 18. Air Force Instruction 36-2903, Dress and Personal Appearance, received the facelift after several years of interim updates as uniform items

  • Army, Air Force families share 'Family of Year' honors

    Families from the Army and the Air Force shared the honors July 21, 2011, as the National Military Family Association's 2011 Family of the Year for their service to the nation and their communities.During the association's 2011 leadership luncheon here, association officials honored a family from

  • 317th takes off to AMC Rodeo

    The 317th Airlift Group and units from the 7th Bomb Wing takes off to compete in this year's 2011 Air Mobility Command Rodeo, an international airlift competition at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.The Rodeo is a biennial competition focused on improving worldwide air mobility forces' professional

  • Dyess family award Military Family of the Year

    Representative Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) met with the Arnold family in Arlington, Virginia this morning at the National Military Family Association's award ceremony where they were named Military Family of the Year. Earlier this year, the Arnold family was named as the Air Force Family of the Year."It

  • 55 Dyess Airmen graduate ALS

    Fifty-five Dyess Air Force Base Airmen graduated Airman Leadership School here July 21. The 55 students of class 11-F spent more than five weeks learning leadership, followership, how to write enlisted performance reports and more. Below are the graduates of class 11-F:317th Aircraft Maintenance