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  • First Sergeants eligible for Special Duty Service Ribbon

    As an Air Force First Sergeant, wearing the "diamond" during your tour of duty was usually the only visible indicator of your past role in the lives of Airmen. This changed last month, however, as first sergeants were listed as being part of a special duty that is now eligible to apply for the Air

  • A-10 pilot guides lives with goals, balance at Yellow Ribbon

    The irresistible sway of musician Stevie Wonder's song "Superstition" helped Lt. Col. Todd Riddle urge his audience  to "dance like nobody's watching," during his keynote address at an Air Force Reserve Yellow Ribbon Program training weekend here Sept. 26-28.More than 600 reservists and their loved

  • October issue of Citizen Airman is online

    The October issue of Citizen Airman magazine is available on the web at http://www.citamn.afrc.af.mil/.The cover story talks about how the Air Force's new air expeditionary force construct will impact Reservists. Bo Joyner, associate editor, focuses the spotlight on the new commanders of 22nd Air

  • AF integrates TAP into new Military Lifecycle Model

    The redesigned Transition Assistance Program is in its third and final stage and will be integrated into the new Defense Department Military Lifecycle Model, Air Force Personnel Center officials said.The MLC, which will be implemented Oct. 1, is the latest in a series of improvements to the

  • SFS feels 'simulated' by training

    Diligently treading over the Kansas prairie while decked out in battle gear, their figures obscured only by the awkward sway of sunflowers and a few sparse, makeshift metal buildings, more than 30 members from the 931st Security Forces Squadron were ready to train, not exercise.That's because the

  • Leaders sign Total Force Aircrew Management charter

    Leaders of the Air Force and the Air Reserve Component gathered for an Aircrew Summit to sign the Total Force Aircrew Management Charter Sept. 18 at the Air Force Association convention.Lt.. Gen. Stanley E. Clarke, director, Air National Guard, Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the Air Force, Gen.

  • Airman comes home after 62 years

    "We never expected it -- it's a miracle," said Mary May, as she watched the dignified arrival of her brother's remains, U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. William Irving Turner at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, New York, Sept. 18.The Niagara Falls ARS Honor Guard conducted the arrival, and a