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  • New Autism Care Demonstration updates

    In an effort to continually improve benefits, the Comprehensive Autism Care Demonstration (ACD) was recently updated to reduce the potential financial burden of applied behavior analysis (ABA) services for non-active-duty families.
  • First Lt. Nathan Flack, the 21st Communications Squadron flight commander, and his son, Titus, finish the Color Run during Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play at Patriot Park on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Sept. 26, 2015. The event included a healthy cooking challenge, inflatable obstacle courses, climbing wall, games, snacks and demonstrations from the Peterson Fire Station and Mobile Emergency Operations Center. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Tiffany DeNault)

    Airmen, families celebrate Worldwide Day of Play

    Approximately 350 families from Peterson and Schriever Air Force bases got off the couch and went outside to play during Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play event held in Patriot Park Sept. 26.
  • Linda DeFrancesco, mother of Senior Airman Lawrence DeFrancesco, places her hands on a plaque with her son’s name on it during a quiet moment before a ceremony at the Yukla 27 memorial. American and Canadian airmen assigned to the 962nd Airborne Air Control Squadron, distinguished guests, and surviving family members of the crew of the E-3B Sentry, AWACS aircraft, call sign Yukla 27, gathered for 20th anniversary memorial ceremonies, Sept 22, 2015, on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Yukla 27, from the 962nd AACS, encountered a flock of geese and crashed shortly after takeoff on a routine surveillance training sortie Sept. 22, 1995, killing all 24 U.S. and Canadian airmen aboard. (U.S. Air Force photo/Justin Connaher)

    Families mark 20 years since tragic loss of AWACS crew

    On Sept. 22, 2015 -- 20 years after Yukla 27's final flight -- more than 150 friends and family members gathered in a frigid Alaska morning, having flown in from all over the world to honor the 24 crew members lost that day.
  • 1st Lt. William Edward Cordero during flight training. (Courtesy Photo)

    Hispanic heritage: A look back at Maj. William Edward Cordero

    Hispanic Americans have been a vital part of American society since before the country unified. William Edward Cordero was welcomed into one of these pioneering families on July 20, 1935, in Santa Barbara, California.
  • Then-Airman 1st Class Kara Watts and her mother, Maj. Tobie Wethington, attend the Air Force surgeon general’s promotion at Defense Health Headquarters in Falls Church, Va., in 2015. Watts, now a senior airman and a 66th Comptroller Squadron administration specialist, and Wethington, an information management information technology fellow at the Defense Information Systems Agency, are both active-duty Airmen. (Courtesy photo)

    AF family: Like mother, like daughter

    When Senior Airman Kara Watts was a college student and searching for inspiration, she said she only had to look as far as her mother's military service.

  • Things to know about voluntary dependent departure from Turkey

    On Sept. 2 Col. John Walker, the 39th Air Base Wing commander, announced the secretary of Defense's decision to authorize voluntary departure for family members of U.S. personnel in Adana, Turkey, to include Incirlik Air Base. Details of the voluntary departure are still evolving. Below is a list of frequently asked questions and answers based on the information available at this time.

  • Family programs highlighted at AFA conference

    Programs geared toward assisting caregivers and helping children of military families with resiliency skills were highlighted during the Air Force Association’s Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition Sept. 15 in Washington, D.C.
  • Some of the Air Force's senior leaders and their spouses answer questions about family issues during an Airman and Family Programs senior leader town hall, during the Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition in Washington, D.C., Sept. 14, 2015. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)

    AF leaders, spouses talk improvements in family programs, voice concerns

    Air Force senior leaders and their spouses discussed the improvements in family programs and opportunities, their concerns cutting basic allowance for housing for a member of dual-service couples, as well as other topics of interest during the Air Force Association’s Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition Sept. 14 in Washington D.C.
  • Capts. Linda Clarkson and Michelle Trujillo saved a 9-year-old boy over the Labor Day weekend Sept. 6, 2015 at Lost Valley Lake Resort in Owensville, Mo. The two nurses, at Scott Air Force Base 375th Medical Group, reacted quickly when they noticed the boy was blue and unresponsive, saving the child's life. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Kiana Brothers)

    Scott AFB nurses save boy's life

    A 9-year-old boy would not be alive today if not for the quick action and skills of two Scott Air Force Base nurses. Capts. Michelle Trujillo and Linda Clarkson, both with the 375th Medical Group, spent the Labor Day weekend camping at Lost Valley Lake Resort in Owensville, Missouri, when they noticed a child being brought out of the water and people gathered around.

  • Turkey: Dependent departure authorized, accompanied PCS suspended

    Effective Sept. 2, Department of Defense-funded travel to Adana, Turkey (including Incirlik Air Base), for dependents has been suspended, and military and civilian dependents in the region are authorized to depart Turkey, announced Department of State and DOD officials.
  • Master Sgt. Shanita Campbell, 433rd Aeromedical Staging Squadron, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas performed triage and treatment toinjured civilians when she came upon an accident Aug.16, 2015 in Seguin, Texas. She immediately stopped to render care to the injured passengers and performed skills learned in Self-Aid Buddy Care in the Air Force until emergency medical crews arrived on scene. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ms. Minnie Jones)

    Reservists respond to vehicle accident, help save lives

    After completing two combined training assemblies, four 433rd Airlift Wing Airmen began a three-hour journey home to Houston, Texas, Aug 16., when they came upon an automobile accident on Interstate Highway 10.
  • U.S. Air Force Airmen 1st Class Colby (left) and Travis Wakefield, 36th Security Forces Squadron entry controllers, stand at the entry to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, July 29, 2015. While they are brothers in arms who serve together, they are also fraternal twins who have worked together since entering the Air Force in October 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alexa Ann Henderson/Released)

    Seeing double: 36th SFS twins defend Andersen together

    Airmen 1st Class Colby and Travis Wakefield, fraternal twins, are both 36th Security Forces Squadron entry controllers who serve and defend Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, together.

  • Going the distance

    Chief Master Sgt. Geoff Weimer, the 5th Bomb Wing command chief, ran 52 miles on the McAdoo Sports and Fitness Center outdoor track at Minot Air Force Base, July 24, to support the Air Force Enlisted Village and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Scholarship Fund.
  • Lt. Col. Loralie Rasmussen, Officer Training School Detachment 12 commander, and her husband, Lt. Col. Reid Rasmussen, Air War College student, take a moment with their family after the change of command ceremony July 16, 2015, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. The couple has three children, from left to right, Foster, Amelia Grace and Emmett. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Alexa Culbert)

    Guard couple juggles military life, share command

    On July 16 an Air National Guard officer took command of the Air Force Officer Training School's Detachment 12 from another guardsman. While that may not seem strange, what is unusual is that the former and new commanders have 23 years of history together. Lt. Col. Loralie Rasmussen assumed command of the detachment from her husband, Lt. Col. Reid Rasmussen.
  • Cortez Allen, the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive back, hypes up young athletes at the start of a National Football League ProCamp, July 16, 2015, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. The free, two-day camp instilled leadership and teamwork skills into children. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Ashley J. Thum)

    Young athletes learn teamwork, leadership at ProCamp

    More than 100 children swarmed onto one of the base's football fields for a free National Football League ProCamp, July 16 and 17.
  • Michelle Mellars, wife of Col. Douglas Mellars, the 422nd Air Base Group commander, greets Betty Welsh, wife of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, at Royal Air Force Croughton, England, July 16, 2015. Welsh visited the installation and spoke with military spouses on the ever-growing key spouse program. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jarad A. Denton)

    Betty Welsh: 'We are family, we are different'

    Speaking to a group of key spouses from the 501st Combat Support Wing at Royal Air Force Croughton July 16, Betty Welsh smiled, and explained how she grew from a girl who lived with her family until she was 22, into an Air Force spouse and wife of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III.
  • U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michial Smith, left, and Senior Airman Brandon Smith, 386th Expeditionary Aerospace Ground Equipment technicians, are deployed together as father and son at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, June 11, 2015. The Smith duo is stationed at Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station in Pennsylvania. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Racheal E. Watson/Released)

    Father, son spend Father’s Day in deployed location

    Father and son duo, Tech. Sgt. Michial Smith and Senior Airman Brandon Smith, were able to spend Father’s Day with each other while deployed to an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia.

  • TRICARE’s breast pump policy updates effective July 1

    TRICARE's breast pump policy was recently updated to include coverage of breast pumps and supplies, and breastfeeding counseling. These supplies and services will be retroactively covered as of Dec. 19.
  • (Courtesy graphic/Defense Commissary Agency)

    Commissaries serve as Feds Feed Families collection sites

    Commissaries are serving as collection points for the Feds Feed Families campaign, which began June 1 and ends Aug. 31 at participating stateside military installations.
  • Master Sgt. Chasitity Gullatt, the 39th Air Base Wing Equal Opportunity superintendent, and her brother, Staff Sgt. Bryant Guillermo, a 39th Security Forces Squadron vault storage area supervisor, are stationed together at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. This is the first time in their careers that they have been stationed together. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Caleb Pierce)

    Airmen bonded together by family, service

    Each month, the Defense Department and installations across the world celebrate the diversity that service members bring to the armed forces. For two Airmen here, not only did they celebrate their Hawaiian-Filipino heritage during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, but they also celebrated their family and military bonds.
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