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  • Fairchild finance hosts top AF comptroller, discusses new audit program

    The Honorable Dr. Jamie Morin, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Financial Management and Comptroller, visited Fairchild April 1 to observe the rollout of the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System, the new method by which the Air Force will maintain audit readiness in regards

  • MacDill builds partnership with Tampa General Hospital

    The 6th Medical Group and members of Tampa General Hospital conducted a meeting March 26, 2014 at TGH in Tampa, Fla. to mark the beginning of building bonds within the community. During the meeting, they discussed progress and growth of current partnerships.As a result of MacDill downsizing from an

  • Top AF financial manager visits McChord for DEAMS rollout

    Dr. Jamie Morin, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller, made a brief visit to the 62nd Comptroller Squadron here April 2, to oversee the unit's implementation of the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System, a new financial management system

  • Success of Proactive Safety Programs Relies on "Just Culture" Acceptance

    First, what is "Just Culture"?A widely accepted and published definition comes from Dr. James Reason, a noted psychologist who has worked in the aviation field with the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine and the U.S. Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, and received the 2001 U.S.A. Flight

  • AMC hosts chief learning officer round table

    Fifteen chief learning officers from companies across the nation came together here recently to exchange ideas about learning organizations and transformation plans.Dr. Darcy Lilley, Air Mobility Command's chief learning officer, said the discussion provided insight for their mission. Her office

  • The Jennifer Vaughan story: one Airman's comeback journey from near death

    There are words Staff Sgt. Jennifer Vaughan faintly remembers hearing from her family and fiancé as she slowly woke up Feb. 18, 2013 from a 62-day induced coma, but it was the look on their faces that made her understand that something was "very wrong."Unable to respond and comprehend the magnitude

  • 15th AMOS provides typhoon relief

    On Nov. 8, Typhoon Haiyan made land fall in the Tacloban region of the Philippines, bringing with it winds more than 200 mph and tsunami level waves. Eyewitnesses reported the devastation looked as if a F5 tornado tore a path 60 miles wide and left nothing standing. Almost instantaneously U.S.

  • Pentagon to review Dover AFB schools

    As the Department of Defense looks to save money under intense budget constraints, Dover Air Force Base's Maj. George S. Welch Elementary and Dover Air Base Middle School will be a part of a Pentagon ordered study.The RAND Corp. will conduct a $905,000 study to recommend to the Secretary of Defense

  • Honorary commanders visit Grand Forks

    Grand Forks Air Force Base officials hosted an immersion tour Nov. 19 as part of the base's honorary commanders program, which helps give a military perspective to non-military people helping them gain a better understanding of the "Airman experience." Honorary commanders are civilian leaders from