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  • New program prepares Airmen, families to bounce back after deployments

    Air Force services recently added a new tool to encourage service members and their families who are affected by deployments to participate in morale, welfare, and recreation programs and activities. The “Recharge for Resiliency” (R4R) initiative was designed to help Airmen readjust to life at home

  • Distance learning PME demands greater commitment

    The Air Force’s new enlisted professional military education distance learning courses are demanding and require more study time.That’s according to a memo from the Air Force Barnes Center of Distance Education at Maxwell AFB, Alabama."The new EPME is a game changer," said Chief Master Sgt. Cameron

  • Programs provide opportunities for internships, jobs

    Recent college graduates interested in federal employment can take advantage of current open recruiting for the Recent Graduates Program as well as three other programs offered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to make becoming a federal employee easier.

  • Carter: China Isolating Itself in Pacific

    US Defense Secretary Ash Carter warned China Wednesday that attempts to expand its influence in the South China Sea will ultimately lead to isolation for the Pacific power.Speaking in Honolulu at the change of command for US Pacific Command, Carter reaffirmed that the US does not respect Chinese

  • Follow up: 315th AW, Denton Program delivers to Haiti

    (Editor’s Note: The following article is a follow-up to an original story, 315 AW Denton Progam delivers to Haiti posted May 8, 2015)The 315th Airlift Wing has a storied history with humanitarian airlift. However, the results of those missions aren’t always shown. One of those missions, Operation

  • Winds of fury exercise hits the Lowcountry

    The 315th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, along with other local, county, state and federal entities, conducted a full scale response exercise May 12-13, 2015. The primary objective was to efficiently receive, regulate, transport and track patients to and from Natural Disaster Medical System

  • Through fire and flames: 315 AW fire dept conducts training

    Firefighter assigned to the 315th Civil Engineering Squadron Flight conducts training inside a C-17 Globemaster III May 2, 2015, at Joint Base Charleston – Air Base, S.C. The flight line training was done with a dry hose and tested the members response time and ability to rescue crew members in the

  • 315 AW, Denton Progam delivers to Haiti

    Airmen from the 701st Airlift Squadron deployed three Globemaster C-17s April 23 – 26, 2015, from Joint Base Charleston, S.C. to Key West Naval Air Station, Fla., to support the movement of Denton cargo to Haiti. The Denton Program allows donors by non-governmental agencies, international

  • Carter Urges Senators to Support Stable Defense Budget

    Slashed budgets and high worldwide demand for U.S. military forces have created an unbalanced defense program that is taking on increasingly greater risks, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a Senate panel May 6.The secretary testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee