• Approved innovation submissions projected to save $35 million

    Approved ideas submitted to the Airmen Powered by Innovation (API) program since it launched in April 2014 are projected to save the Air Force at least $35 million, Air Force Personnel Center officials said.The API program was created to help gather cost-saving ideas and is a subset initiative to

  • AFMC's enlisted Airmen honor commander with Order of the Sword

    In an event steeped in medieval symbolism and military tradition, Air Force Materiel Command Commander Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger was inducted into the AFMC Order of the Sword during a ceremony Feb. 5, 2015, at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.The Order of the Sword is the highest honor the

  • Commentary: Diamond in the rough, commander shares 514th FLTS mission

    Many Utahns have seen the A-10, F-16, F-22, F-35 and C-130 aircraft flying around Hill AFB, Utah and the Ogden-Salt Lake City area from time to time.  What you may or may not realize is that the majority of these aircraft are flown by the pilots and aircrew of the 514th Flight Test Squadron, 413th

  • Hill Airman honored in annual AF "Portraits in Courage"

    A Hill Airman made the cut when the Air Force released its ninth volume of Portraits in Courage, highlighting five teams and seven individual Airman for their honor, valor, devotion and selfless sacrifice in the face of extreme danger to themselves and others.The Air Force selected Hill's Staff Sgt.

  • Active duty, reserve airmen to face off in weapons load competition

    Airmen in the 421st Aircraft Maintenance Unit and the 466th AMU will compete in a weapons load competition in Hangar 37 here Feb. 13 at 8 a.m. to determine which unit will be named, "Weapons Load Crew of the Year." The 421st, an active-duty squadron under the 388th Fighter Wing, and the 466th, a