• Air Force officials to close force shaping programs

    Since the Air Force is on track to meet end strength goals for fiscal 2008, force shaping programs are being closed for the remainder of the year. March 31 is the last day Air Force officials will accept fiscal 2008 Voluntary Separation Pay program applications. All eligible officers interested in

  • New Web app makes assignment system easier to use

    Active duty Air Force members -- officers and enlisted -- who log on to the Air Force Personnel Center's Assignment Management System will find a new Web application that makes navigation faster and easier. "It's all part of AFPC's on-going effort to increase service to our customers," said Master

  • March 12 airpower summary: C-130s support coalition forces

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations March 12, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, an Air Force B-1B Lancer, an F-15E Strike Eagle and an

  • Airmen can submit dress, appearance ideas online

    This week, top Air Force leaders came together for a two-day forum called CORONA. At the forum, Lt. Gen. Richard Newton III, deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services at the Pentagon, announced that Airmen will now be able to submit ideas for improving dress and appearance standards

  • Airmen aid coalition ground forces one leaflet at a time

    American Airman and the Australian Defence Force recently teamed up to deliver critical information to Iraqi civilians in southern Iraq. A Dyess C-130 Hercules, working in conjunction with Australians from Overwatch Battle Group (West)-4, conducted two one-day missions to drop 330,000 leaflets