A program is now in place that gives Airmen in Training here a bigger role in sexual assault prevention and response.
Officials with the 82nd Training Wing Sexual Assault Response Coordinator office recently created the Air Force's first student advocate program. Students against Sexual Assault and Harassment, or SASH, calls for Airmen in Training to volunteer to become SARC representatives for their squadrons. This will make it easier for sexual assault victims to come forward.
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Air Force Personnel Center officials here begin accepting applications for voluntary separation pay April 1 from eligible officers.
Officers in nine Air Force specialties across five year groups who are being considered to meet the 2010 Reduction in Force Board convening Sept. 20 are eligible to apply for VSP. They include Airmen in the grades of major and below in the following core Air Force specialties: 13S, 15W, 21A, 33S, 38F, 52R with the exception of Catholic chaplains, 61B, 61C and 65F who were commissioned in the year groups 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2004.
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A U.S. Air Force Academy cadet was named one of 60 Truman Scholarship recipients in an announcement released by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation March 30.
Cadet 2nd Class Jennifer Bandi, a native of Winchester, Mass., is the Academy's 16th Truman Scholarship winner.
A political science major, Cadet Bandi has completed several international immersion trips and research endeavors focusing on African studies, including HIV and AIDS research in Namibia and Botswana as well as a current project on the origin of conflict through U.S. Africa Command. She is also an intercollegiate athlete, playing on the Air Force women's basketball team.
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Approximately 30 Airmen and two F-22 Raptors from Holloman Air Force Base headed to Chile to participate in an air show, but took more equipment then initially planned.
The plan had been in effect for months for the Airmen and aircraft to support the 2010 FIDAE Air and Trade Show that would mark the debut of the F-22 to South America; however, after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit the country only weeks before the show and damaging thousands of homes, Airmen deploying knew they could not leave the base empty-handed.
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Three military working dogs here are due to be medically retired April 6, and took a final run at the kennel obstacle course March 25. The dogs and their partners are assigned to the 56th Security Forces.
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Members of the Tactical Satellite-3 program team here and at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., answered the call when U.S. Southern Command officials requested imaging collection to assist with rebuilding and humanitarian relief efforts after an earthquake struck Haiti and Chile.
Employing the spacecraft's primary payload, the Advanced Responsive Tactically-Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer project, has provided more than 30 data collects to the Miami-based unified combatant command staff.
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Kunsan Air Base officials hosted an exercise with South Korean airmen March 15 through 17 here to operate effectively together for possible joint combat actions.
South Korean air force F-16s from the 21st Fighting Squadron out of Seosan Air Base and F-15E Strike Eagles from the 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron played part in several realistic aerial exercises to become familiar with each other's tactics and procedures.
"(Exercise) Buddy Wing is a way for us to gain experience flying with the host nation pilots," said Capt. Patrick Hickie, a 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron pilot. "This enables us to integrate seamlessly and be effective as possible. This is the bread and butter of what we do. We need to understand how to operate and employ together efficiently, this exercise gives us the chance to do that."
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The deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency celebrated Women's History Month by highlighting the contributions women are making to the intelligence field.
"I am certainly aware of all the women who have come before me, all of the women who have accomplished truly remarkable things and have blazed the path," Letitia Long said during an interview March 26.
Chosen by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to be the next director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Ms. Long will become the first woman to lead a major U.S. intelligence agency when she takes office this summer. She emphasized that the intelligence and defense communities have gained a tremendous amount by incorporating not just women, but also more minorities, in the field.
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It wasn't a typical cross country skiing race where skill and speed are factors. In this race, it was all about cooperation.
Three children and two parents, lined up like a caterpillar with their hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them, inching along in unison and trying not to trip one another while racing toward the finish line.
"We all really worked well together, I noticed," said Alec Wyatt, 11, who won that ski relay with his teammates -- brother Brent Wyatt, 17, sister Jessica Wyatt, 13, and parents Karen and Capt. Gregory Izdepski. The ski race was one of dozens of events at Operation Purple Military Family Retreat in Jackson Wyo., March 19 to 23 designed specifically for military families to reconnect after one or both parents have been deployed.
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The 2010 NCO Retraining Program has concluded with 966 Air Force NCOs identified to transition to new career fields and the successful introduction of two new procedures.
Efforts to rebalance the NCO force are being considered a success this year, officials at the Air Force Personnel Center here said.
"We are very happy with the results of NCORP this year since we met our objectives," said Col. William Foote, the director of AFPC's Personnel Services Directorate. "Those objectives included shortening the cycle time of identifying individuals to fill our shortage Air Force specialties and getting as close as possible to 100 percent of those shortfalls filled. We were pleased to meet a majority of our objectives through volunteers to retrain."
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