Flight engineers, loadmasters, and sensor operators are among the 3,700 Airmen who will stop receiving special duty assignment pay over the next year, Air & Space Forces Magazine has confirmed. All told, 33 Air Force specialties will no longer qualify for SDAP starting in fiscal 2024. ...
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On the eve of Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.’s nomination hearing to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III upped his pressure on lawmakers to break the monthslong delay in confirming senior military leaders July 10. Speaking at ...
The Air Force will stop awarding new bonuses and delay some permanent change-of-station orders to offset rising personnel costs. USAF is reviewing all pending PCS orders for Airmen whose projected departure dates are Aug. 1 or later. While some will be approved on a “priority basis,” ...
U.S. Space Command's new senior enlisted leader will be a Guardian, the first ever picked to advise a combatant command. Chief Master Sgt. Jacob C. Simmons will succeed Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sgt. Scott H. Stalker, the Pentagon said in a June 26 announcement. Simmons ...
Aviation milestones are a family business for Air Force Maj. Bryce Turner, who on June 28 became the first Air Force pilot to take the T-7A Red Hawk on an official test flight, which marked the latest milestone in a three-generation tradition of Turner family ...
Earlier this month, the Air Force’s top enlisted leader released a memo to Airmen urging them to abide by the service’s standards: the customs and courtesies, operating instructions, technical orders, and dress and appearance regulations considered central to the Air Force’s identity. Rigorous adherence, she ...
A year after planning but ultimately reversing cuts to its special duty assignment pay program, the Air Force is forging ahead with an even larger reduction for fiscal 2024 which will affect thousands of Airmen. In a June 23 release, the service announced that after a ...
Out of 36,913 eligible Air Force staff sergeants, just 5,354 (14.5 percent) were selected for promotion to technical sergeant this year, the Air Force announced June 29. The rate is the lowest since 1996.
The Air Force’s study into possible cancer risks associated with work on intercontinental ballistic missiles will be a comprehensive review—and will not favor the service over evidence, medical officials leading the effort insisted. “We need our solutions to be driven by science and data,” Col. ...