Airmen at Dover AFB, Del., and JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., were busy on Oct. 30 cleaning up debris and fallen trees and dealing with property damage, minor flooding, and power outages after Superstorm Sandy hit both installations on the previous day....
Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Pacific Air Forces commander, presented the Distinguished Flying Cross to MSgt. Richard Joy and SSgt. Tyson Reams during an Oct. 29 ceremony at Kadena AB, Japan. He recognized these airmen for their heroic actions in combat while...
Officials at Eglin AFB, Fla., on Oct. 30 dedicated Building 1314 on base to the memory of TSgt. Daniel Douville, an explosive ordnance disposal technician who died in Afghanistan in 2011 from injuries he suffered when an improvised explosive device...
The Defense Department spent $21.5 billion on its unclassified and classified intelligence activities in Fiscal 2012, announced Pentagon officials on Oct. 30. That appropriated amount, which funded the military intelligence program, or MIP, included money in DOD’s base budget and...
The Air Force has rescinded the manual used to define skill codes for civilian positions, according to Air Force Personnel Center officials. This is one of several ongoing administrative actions to transform the service’s civilian hiring process, they said in...
Lt. Col. Rick Stoffel, an instructor pilot assigned to Air Force Reserve Command’s 39th Flying Training Squadron at JBSA-Randolph, Tex., recently surpassed 5,000 flight hours in the T-1A Jayhawk, according to base officials. Accumulating that much flying time in one...
Defense Department forensic scientists identified the remains of TSgt. William S. Cassell of Mt. Airy, N.C., who had been missing since November 1946, announced Pentagon officials. DOD returned Cassell’s remains to his family; he was buried with full military honors...
Air Force Reserve Command launched a mobile app on Oct. 30 to give its airmen access to information that can help bring balance to their busy, stressful lives, announced command officials. This app is part of AFRC’s Wingman Toolkit outreach...
