Air Force officials announced the winners of the 2010 Lance P. Sijan Leadership Award.
The Sijan Award annually recognizes four Airmen who demonstrate outstanding leadership abilities. Officer and enlisted honorees are chosen in senior and junior categories.
Lt. Col. Tony Millican of Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., was named the winner in the senior officer category. While deployed, Colonel Millican successfully commanded 80 high-threat convoys. During the aftermath of a suicide vehicle attack, Colonel Millican commanded post-attack recovery actions, accounting for all of his 600 personnel, despite sustaining hearing damage and head trauma.
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Super Bowl XLV will be broadcast on both American Forces Network television and radio on Feb. 6. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines deployed in 175 countries and 140 Navy ships overseas will be provided almost 20 hours of original, Super Bowl-related programming. Viewers and listeners can check
www.myafn.net for schedules and local air times.
AFN's TV coverage of Super Bowl XLV begins at midnight California time on Feb. 6 (0900 CET / 1100 Iraq / 1230 Afghanistan / 1700 Japan/Korea) with special pre-game programming followed nine hours later by some great shows from FOX: "Road To The Super Bowl," "Troy Aikman's Super Bowl Greats" and the "Super Bowl XLV Pre-Game Show."
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On the surface, it was a reveille ceremony like any other. Cadets were lined up in formation waiting for the first note to sound. The honor guard was in place, prepared to hoist the flag, and a bugler was standing by, waiting for his queue.
However, this was anything but a typical reveille ceremony. The more than 4,000 cadets on hand were there to honor an event that is ingrained in the minds of many Americans, an event that turned all eyes toward NASA for something grimmer than a glorious occasion like a moon landing: the Challenger shuttle disaster.
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A security forces Airman, with no prior computer programming knowledge, developed an application that allows Airmen to calculate their physical-training test score on their smart phone or mp3 player.
Senior Airman Julio Medina, of the 6th Space Warning Squadron, created AF Tracker, a free application available through iTunes with a PT calculator capability and an option to e-mail the score to anyone from the application.
Airman Medina said he's always had a passion for computers, and once he found out anyone could develop applications for smart phones like the iPhone, he started thinking of ideas.
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Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton passed the flag of U.S. Strategic Command to Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler Jan. 28, giving the nation's nuclear deterrent mission a new commander.
General Chilton, a pilot who served 10 years with NASA and flew three space shuttle missions, retired after 34 years of service. General Kehler assumed command after serving as the commander of Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates presided over the ceremony. Outside the hangar where the ceremony took place were aircraft important in the command. From B-52 Stratofortress and B-2 Spirit bombers, to F-15 Eagles, to U-2 reconnaissance planes, the aircraft served as a backdrop to honor General Chilton's career from the Air Force Academy class of 1976 to orbit to today.
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In this edition of Today's Air Force, you'll be taking a trip down South. Way down South, to the South Pole, where you will get an inside look at how Airmen are supporting scientific research in Antarctica. See how pilots take off and land in the snow and ice, and find out what it takes to survive in some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. Catch it all as you visit Operation Deep Freeze, this week on Today's Air Force.
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Tops In Blue, the Air Force's expeditionary entertainment unit, is scheduled to perform "America the Beautiful" during festivities leading up to Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, Texas, Feb. 6.
The group will perform alongside actress Lea Michele during pre-game activities. Tops In Blue performed as the halftime show during Super Bowl XIX in 1985, and Air Force Services Agency officials are pleased to have the group invited back.
"This year's Tops In Blue team is extremely excited about this opportunity, and every member looks forward to representing the Air Force both live and on television throughout the world," said Tom Edwards, the director of Tops In Blue.
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Master Officers from the James City County Police Department visited here to provide field sobriety test training to 633rd Security Forces Squadron Airmen Jan. 20.
The day-long training fulfills the Virginia state requirement for all law enforcement officers working in Virginia to be trained in administering the test properly and performing arrests based on the results.
JCCPD Officer Marc Marchand oversaw the training, which began with security forces Airmen performing "practicals," or thorough simulations of drunk-driver apprehensions. While the Airmen performed the field sobriety test on colleagues, Officers Marchand and Zachary Miller observed and provided feedback.
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Officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs are hosting a public forum in Scottsdale, Ariz., aimed at improving the fairness of payments for veterans who are service-connected for genitourinary, digestive, dental, infectious, immune disorder and nutritional deficiency diseases and injuries.
"We welcome to this public forum key stakeholders, our nation's veterans, veterans service organizations, public and private health experts, health economists and Department of Defense professionals, who will provide us with the information we need to bring the disability rating criteria into the 21st century," said Michael Walcoff, the acting undersecretary for benefits.
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Recently, my wife and I were walking through Manitou Springs when we overheard Bob Marley's classic "Buffalo Soldier" coming from the speakers in a nearby park.
I reflected back to the first time I heard the song live at a concert in Tacoma, Wash., where he and "The Wailers" performed. As we got closer to the park, we could see that many were familiar with the artist's lyrics and were singing along.
A portion of the song goes like this: "He was a Buffalo Soldier, dreadlock Rasta, he was a Buffalo Soldier fighting for America, fighting a rival, fighting for survival."
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