• ALS students show Air Force pride with Enlisted Heritage project

    The Airman Leadership School students went to work improving the outside of their school for their Enlisted Heritage project April 20.With springtime now here, the students decided on beautification as their theme and planted flowers, power washed the building, cleaned up the areas around the United

  • Forum a chance to influence how Air Force cares for its families

    In keeping with the Air Force's long-standing tradition of taking care of its families, a call is being issued for participants in the 2011 Caring for People Forum to be held May 11 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Chapel Annex.In the past, agency members attended the Air Force-level forum in Washington

  • WELLNESS CORNER: May 1 ushers in National Mental Health Month focus

    May is National Mental Health month. The Hill Air Force Base Mental Health Clinic encourages you to step back for a moment and evaluate your own mental health: How is your stress level, what are your moods often like (e.g., happy, sad, angry, irritable, excited, anxious, discouraged), and how are

  • Using tobacco reduces stress? Not so, researchers report

    Most tobacco users believe that tobacco reduces their stress and helps them manage unpleasant moods. Many service men and women report that stress is a major reason they smoke or chew tobacco, since military life produces unique pressures and challenges. But a recent article published on the U.S.

  • Hill to conduct its annual ESOHCAMP audit May 2 - 13

    With checklists in hand, a team of more than 60 Hill Air Force Base people will divide up and spread across the base and even into Utah's west desert May 2-13 for the base's annual ESOHCAMP.But it's not the kind of "camp" that calls for tents, sleeping bags and camp stoves. ESOHCAMP is an acronym

  • AFMC prepares for early retirements and separations

    Air Force Materiel Command and Hill Air Force Base have begun the early preparations for a fiscal year 2011/12 VERA/VSIP incentive program.VERA/VSIP stands for Voluntary Early Retirement Authority/Voluntary Separation Incentive Program. The VERA/VSIP, which will be publicized to the entire