July 1, 2015 Exchange shoppers can win a share of $25,000 with MILITARY STAR contest To mark 120 years of support to America’s service members and their families, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service is giving military shoppers a chance at $25,000 in account credits with the MILITARY STAR “Because of You” sweepstakes. From July 1 to July 31, military shoppers will be automatically
July 1, 2015 Decorations processing now initiated through virtual Personnel Center Supervisors of active-duty Airmen can now use the virtual Personnel Center via myPers to initiate and track decorations throughout the review and approval process.
June 30, 2015 Charleston Reservists help train Afghan medevac crews Airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron were selected to advise their Afghan aeromedical evacuation counterparts in Kabul, Afghanistan. The team, consisting of two AE instructor/evaluators, deployed from the 315th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Joint Base
June 29, 2015 Sink 'r Swim: SERE instructors dive head first into training Their job is training service members on how to survive during worst-case scenarios so they'll return home to their loved ones.Survival, Escape, Resistance and Evasion specialists equip aircrew members on how to do exactly that: survive, escape, resist and evade. And, learning those skills could
June 29, 2015 Making a Splash: 300th AS conducts mass deployment exercise Sometimes the best way to learn to swim is to challenge yourself and jump in. More than 90 Airmen from the 300th Airlift Squadron at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina did just that. After deploying to Naval Air Station Key West, Fla. for a mass deployment exercise June 24 to 26, 2015, they took
June 25, 2015 315th lean management gaining ground in the Lowcountry Maj. Kimberly Champagne, 315th Airlift Wing process manager here, spoke to members of the American Society for Quality Charleston Section June 23 about lean processes and project management tools used to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary and per deim funds.Champagne was invited to
June 25, 2015 Dempsey Addresses Pay, Compensation in Online Discussion Questioners didn’t pull any punches during the Facebook town hall conducted by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff June 24. In his fifth social media town hall, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey was asked if proposed changes to the pay and compensation package were a betrayal of those who have
June 24, 2015 Vietnam, a look back: Part II Editor's Note: Mr. Michael Petersen's story is a four-part series that takes an in-depth look at the hardships, camaraderie and challenges of the Vietnam War and integration back into daily life once returning home. Petersen is a retired Air Force Reserve command chief master
June 19, 2015 Vietnam, a look back: Part I Editor's Note: Mr. Michael Petersen's story is a four-part series that takes an in-depth look at the hardships, camaraderie and challenges of the Vietnam War and integration back into daily life once returning home. Petersen is a retired Air Force Reserve command chief master sergeant and currently
June 19, 2015 Enlisted evaluation, promotion systems to use new EPR forms, forced distribution, stratification restrictions With static closeout dates for each rank in place, the Air Force announced it will update the enlisted performance report forms and utilize new forced distribution and senior rater stratification restrictions to round out the incremental changes to enlisted evaluation and promotion systems with