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  • AFSO21 initiative speeds up training process

    The 92nd Operations Support Squadron is reducing the amount of training time required to get aircrew mission-ready and deployable through an AFSO 21 Just Do It initiative. OSS representatives reworked the process that trains crewmembers arriving on station. Currently, it can take up to four months

  • National week of observance promotes suicide prevention

    Coinciding with World Suicide Prevention Day Sept. 10 hosted by the International Association for Suicide and Prevention, the week of Sept. 9 through Sept. 15 marks National Suicide Prevention Week. "This is a good opportunity to spread knowledge and training to people who find themselves in

  • AFSO 21: Med Group saves thousands with Just Do Its

    The 92nd Medical Group has saved more than $75,000 in emergency room visit costs over the past year through a Just Do It initiative, a program associated with Air Force Smart Operations 21. Through patient education and training, and with a little help from those patients, the group is making great

  • Cyber safety top priority at Fairchild

    "Don't take candy from a stranger." This is the phrase Maj. Pamela Woolley, 92nd Communications Squadron commander, used to explain how computer users should respond to Internet and computer safety ... Keep yourself safe and stay on the lookout for trouble. Fairchild's Cyber Security Awareness Day

  • Dover colonel helps Charleston lean checks

    The 436th Maintenance Group commander, Col. Robert Hamm, headed south Aug. 6 through Aug. 10 and kicked off 'lean' initiatives at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. Charleston chose Dover AFB because of its command-wide reputation for having made huge strides in Air Force Smart Operations 21 programs

  • Charleston maintainers lean process for HSC

    The 437th Maintenance Squadron Home Station Check Airmen hosted a rapid improvement lean event here from Aug. 6 to Aug. 10 to increase aircraft availability and reduce total cost for Charleston AFB. HSC is a thorough three-day inspection done every 120 days on an aircraft while it's at home station.

  • Saving makes a world of a difference

    Are you the kind of person who hasn't trusted the bank since the Great Depression and save your money under the mattress? Are you an active investor with a majority of funds in some sort of account or another? Or do you happen to be the type of person who just doesn't bother to save? If you answered

  • Charleston holds exercise similar to Virginia Tech incident

    Charleston AFB held a simulated emergency base-wide exercise Aug. 1, which compared to the Virginia Tech shootings earlier this year. The objective of a base-wide exercise was to test the initial and tactical response of the base in the event of an emergency. "The base as a whole did very well

  • Liberating benevolence

    A sense of relief has no monetary value. It can't be bought. It can't be sold. But it can be given. The Air Force Aid Society, the official charity of the U.S. Air Force has had more practice in giving than Santa Claus. Located at all Air Force bases world wide, the AFAS has contributed significant