The Air Force replaced the Airman Comprehensive Assessment with a new Airman Leadership Qualities feedback form, which Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr has said will change how the service measures, motivates, and rewards service members. The move is the latest by USAF ...
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Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III released the findings of a 20-base review of sexual assault prevention and response practices within days of a congressional report that found additional focus needed on prevention along with “continued congressional oversight.” The GAO acknowledged that “DOD has taken a ...
A decade ago, female missileers could not "pull alert" at a certain stage of pregnancy or while nursing. More often than not, the women who took responsibility for an ICBM launch control capsule chose instead to leave the Air Force. Today, Air Force policies have ...
The Defense Department’s fiscal 2023 budget request contains a 4.6 percent pay raise for service members and DOD civilians, a figure touted by officials during the March 28 rollout as the largest increase for troops in 20 years. But at the same time, a new ...
Gen. Charles G. Boyd, the only former Vietnam-era prisoner of war to attain four-star rank, died March 23 at age 83. Boyd also headed Air University and was deputy commander-in-chief of U.S. European Command. In later years, he served with a number of think tanks ...
The Office of the Secretary of Defense has named the first new “leadership cadre” of an influential women’s advisory committee after disbanding the board along with dozens of others in January 2021 then restarting them incrementally. The Pentagon announced March 22 that Shelly O’Neill Stoneman, ...
For the first time in years, the Pentagon has updated its Physical Fitness/Body Composition program, granting the services wider latitude to devise their own systems and tests. DOD Instruction 1308.03, issued March 10, allows the respective services to measure body composition using “[body fat] calculations, ...
An F-22's landing gear collapsed upon landing at Eglin Air Force Base March 22, but the pilot is in good condition after a hospital check. The cause of the accident is under investigation, though landing gear issues have afflicted the F-22 in recent years.
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