The Air Force intends to launch a study this summer, together with RAND, to track more than 5,000 active duty families across a full deployment cycle—before, during, and after an airman’s deployment—to measure their resilience, according to two senior service manpower officials. “The information received from this study will be invaluable on how we treat and provide care for airmen and their families in the future,” Daniel Ginsberg, manpower lead in the Air Force Secretariat, and Lt. Gen. Darrell Jones, his counterpart on the Air Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee’s personnel panel last week. This study is part of the Air Force’s broader efforts to help airmen and their families deal with the stresses and demands of an airman’s extended deployments. To heighten the focus on this area, the Air Force has also established a resilience division within its headquarters, they said. (Ginsberg-Jones prepared statement)
The Air National Guardsman who was arrested last year for sharing hundreds of top secret and classified documents to online chatrooms was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on Nov. 12 after pleading guilty to several charges this March.