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  • 317th AG conducts first JPADS training

    The 317th Airlift Group successfully completed their first continental U.S. Joint Precision Airdrop System, or JPADS, airdrops on routine training lines Feb. 22, 2012 by dropping two bundles equaling 2,400 pounds at Fort Hood, Texas. JPADS is an airdrop system that uses Global Positioning Satellite,

  • Air Force Medical Service turns to secure messaging

    Patients at Air Force medical treatment facilities will soon be able to communicate securely and privately with their health care teams anywhere and anytime due to the Air Force-wide expansion of secure messaging.Secure messaging will be available to patients through what is known as the MiCare

  • Master resilience course takes hold at Fairchild

    As part of an Air Mobility Command-wide initiative, resilience development training was provided to students at the First Term Airman Center center here recently. Based on the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Resilience development model, and part of AMC's Comprehensive Airman

  • First Lady samples food transformation initiative at Little Rock

    First Lady Michelle Obama visited the Hercules Dining Facility here Feb. 9 to survey the food transformation initiative program on base. The visit was part of a three-day tour by the First Lady commemorating the second anniversary of her "Let's Move!" program designed to combat childhood obesity.In

  • New program at Fairchild assists victims of domestic abuse

    Fairchild has added a new tool for victims of domestic abuse. The 92nd Medical Group now has a new Domestic Abuse Victim Advocate whose responsibility is to provide base personnel, their family members or intimate partners who are victims of domestic violence assistance when requested. The DAVA

  • AF units show inter-command cooperation during BPC mission

    Two Airmen from the Inter-American Air Forces Academy, 318th Training Squadron, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, joined forces with Airmen from the 571st Mobility Support Advisory Squadron, 615th Contingency Response Wing, Travis AFB, Calif., in support of a month-long Building Partner Capacity

  • Resiliency: Military Family Life Consultant Program available at Fairchild

    There are only three of them, rotating in and out of Fairchild every three months, but they provide wide-ranging services to Fairchild from teaching resiliency lessons to conflict resolution.Integrated into the Airman & Family Readiness Center and the Child Development Center, the Military Family

  • 422nd JTS achieves publishing milestone

    The 422nd Joint Tactics Squadron met one of the unit's most significant milestones to date after Maj. Gen. Bill Bender, U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, signed a publication intended to serve as a "playbook" for Airmen operating in a variety of expeditionary combat support roles across

  • Acquisition Board approves DEAMS next phase

    The Defense Acquisition Board on Jan. 10 approved the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System's entry into the engineering and manufacturing development phase, otherwise known in acquisition terms as Milestone B.The DAB is the Defense Department's senior-level forum for advising the

  • DEAMS FMO Moving to Wright-Patterson AFB

    Air Force and Defense Finance and Accounting Service officials announced Jan. 11 that the Functional Management Office for the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System, currently operating near Scott Air Force Base, Ill., will relocate to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, by Sept.