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  • Companies Lauded for Top Support of Guard, Reserve Employees

    Fifteen companies and organizations from a port to a power company received the coveted Secretary of Defense Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Award here yesterday.The ESGR Freedom Award ceremony highlighted private and public companies, large and small, which go above and beyond

  • Leaders talk budget, strategy, force mix at AFA conference

    As Air Force leaders look to the future, their vision is shaped around leveraging strengths of the Total Force - Active, Guard and Reserve as a team - to address the challenges of budget cuts and a new National Strategy.Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley addressed the future of the Air

  • Reserve Recruiters make goal for 12th straight year

    Air Force Reserve Command recruiters reached their annual goal today when they recorded their 9,229th enlistment of the fiscal year.The achievement marks the 12th straight year Reserve Command recruiters have reached their annual target number for enlistments. "We're the finest recruiting service in

  • MilPDS scheduled for upgrade in December

    The Military Personnel Data System will be upgraded and migrated to the Defense Information Systems Agency's Defense Enterprise Computing Center in December. MilPDS will be unavailable during the upgrade project, which is scheduled to take 23 days to complete.MilPDS is a personnel records database

  • New DOD policy on air travel begins Oct 1

    Beginning Oct. 1, 2012, any travel authorization that includes air travel must be approved and ticketed at least 72 hours in advance of the scheduled flight departure to avoid airline reservations from being cancelled. This is due to a new policy being instituted by the airlines under the FY13 GSA

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters visit McConnell

    Members of the 931st Air Refueling Group welcomed members of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sedgwick County to McConnell Air Force Base on Saturday of the September unit training assembly, Sept. 8.Five children who participate in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program received a welcome briefing from