• 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

  • Air Force Key Spouses of the Year honored at forum

    Some of the Air Force's outstanding 'Key Spouses' were honored during the service's Caring for People Forum here July 19.Suzie Schwartz, wife of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, and Paula Roy, wife of Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James A. Roy, accompanied Lt. Gen. Darrell

  • Deadline for DBIDS registration

    Dyess Air Force Base will soon begin using the Defense Biometric Identification System at the installation gates as a force protection tool. Security forces will scan identification cards in order to verify a member's status as they enter the installation. Additionally, if persons attempt entry onto

  • Dyess holds first ever Le Tour De Dyess

    The rising temperatures of the early morning didn't stop these motivated cyclists who competed in a 26 mile bike race known as Le Tour De Dyess.The purpose of this event is to explore new routes here on Dyess and develop camaraderie and cohesion as a unit through cycling. More than 50 cyclists

  • Spice revisited

    For more than a year, the Air Force and federal government agencies have dealt with the challenges associated with the usage and regulation of "spice."Spice -- otherwise known as K2 and deemed a drug of concern by the Drug Enforcement Agency -- is a psychoactive herbal and chemical product, which