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Air Force issues flight release for Eglin AFB F-35A
Officials at the Aeronautical Systems Center here issued a Military Flight Release today that will allow the F-35A Lightning II fighter to begin initial operations at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.This decision was reached after an airworthiness board conducted an assessment that evaluated potential risks and the corresponding mitigation actions to
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Air Force announces OTS selection board results
An unprecedented 100 percent of enlisted active-duty members who applied for Officer Training School were accepted by the OTS Rated Selection Board 12OT01, officials here announced today. A total of 215 men and women, including 30 enlisted active duty members, from across America have earned an opportunity to become Air Force leaders following
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Injury compensation team saves AF millions
Last year the Air Force Personnel Center injury compensation team saved the Air Force $5.9 million in future dollars.The team accomplished this partly by identifying compensation process flaws, and partly through thorough assessment of injury compensation claims.According to Marty Watson, the chief of Injury Compensation, Air Force medical and
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National Museum USAF to receive retired NASA space shuttle crew compartment trainer
A retired NASA space shuttle crew compartment trainer is expected to arrive this summer at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The CCT is a high-fidelity representation of the Space Shuttle Orbiter crew station that was used primarily for on-orbit crew training and engineering evaluations. It was in this trainer that astronauts learned how
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Air Force firefighter saves police officer's life
A firefighter from Holloman Air Force Base saved the life of a San Antonio police officer Feb. 19 while on leave visiting his family.For Staff Sgt. Lionel Garcia, who works with the 49th Civil Engineer Squadron here, putting out building, aircraft, automobile or brush fires is just another day in the office, but thanks to his firefighter training,
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AETC commander: Air Force staying ahead of learning curve
The commander of Air Education and Training Command spoke about the future of Air Force learning at the Air Force Association's 2012 Air Warfare Symposium here Feb. 23.Gen. Edward A. Rice Jr. addressed Airmen and defense industry professionals on the Air Force's need to continue to adapt how the Air Force provides Airmen the tactical expertise,
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Pet travel policy unchanged for Patriot Express, other carriers revise policy
Military members on permanent change of station orders from overseas locations don't need to worry about recent news reports that fees to transport their pets are being increased to costly levels.There was concern about military members traveling on regular commercial flights because United Airlines changed its policy in conjunction with its merger
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AFMC wins international waste management awards
The Air Force Materiel Command Asset Management Division recently earned the Richard I. Stessel Waste Management Award, making the AFMC team the first federal entity honored by the Air and Waste Management Association. The association named the AFMC division a winner of the Stessel award for demonstrating its leadership in promoting waste
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Marathon early registration brings chance to win prize package
Anyone registering for the Air Force Marathon before March 17, 2012, will be automatically entered to win an All-Access Prize Package. "This is our third year for this contest, and we've had to move it from July to April and now March because the races keep filling up so fast," said Molly Louden, the Air Force Marathon race director. "We didn't
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Tuskegee nurse first African-American in Army Nurse Corps
An operating room nurse in North Carolina during the early days of World War II would become the first African-American nurse commissioned as a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps and the first nurse to become part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen.Della H. Rainey was born in Suffolk, Virginia, on January 10, 1912. A graduate of the Lincoln Hospital
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