Many U.S. troops stationed in South Korea with their families—including at Osan Air Base—will begin serving 36-month tours, up from 24 months, starting with service members arriving in October.
Personnel
The Air Force and Space Force are currently on track to meet their fiscal 2025 recruiting goals, the Department of the Air Force’s top recruiting official said, keeping up a hot streak after several challenging years.
The Air Force will promote 11.64 percent of eligible master sergeants to senior master sergeant this year, continuing a steady upward trajectory. The Air Force Personnel Center announced Feb. 24 that 1,635 Airmen are moving up to E-8 out of 14,041 eligible. The full list of ...
The Office of the Secretary of Defense laid out ambitious goals to reduce the department’s civilian workforce by 5 to 8 percent, but it’s not clear how many of those will be Department of the Air Force employees.
About three weeks after it was removed on Jan. 29, Air Force Handbook 1 reappeared on Feb. 19, albeit missing several sections regarding diversity, inclusion, cognitive bias, and COVID-19.
About a month after the Defense Department issued a sweeping analysis of military compensation, a new report offers several recommendations for making base pay, allowances, special pays, and performance incentives more efficient.
A production superintendent with the Ohio Air National Guard, Master Sgt. Todd Parkison has brought in more Airmen than any other Air National Guard recruiter in history, and perhaps more than any Air Force recruiter period.
A new Department of the Air Force memo clarifies that civilian employees must either work or use accrued leave on Family Days. The memo also notes Family Days will be evaluated in the coming weeks, sparking concerns regarding changes around the tradition.
The Air Force is delaying the start of the promotion testing cycle for technical sergeants two weeks, citing the need to purge study materials of content on diversity, equity, and inclusion to follow executive orders from President Donald Trump.
