• Officials automate active-duty assignment notifications

    Air Force officials are automating active-duty assignment notifications for Airmen in the ranks of lieutenant colonel and below beginning Jan. 21.Airmen will receive an e-mail notification about their new assignments and have seven days to acknowledge their assignments through the Virtual Military

  • Invitations for well-being survey start Jan. 25

    Invitations to take the 2011 Air Force Community Assessment will be sent out Jan. 25.The assessment is designed to assist chaplains and people working in installation-level Airman and family readiness centers, family advocacy programs, health and wellness centers, mental health clinics and child and

  • Changes coming to the Post-911 GI-Bill

    The Post-9/11 Veterans Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2010 was recently signed into law.Effective Aug. 1, 2009, but not payable until Oct. 1, 2011: Certain National Guard members mobilized on Title 32 orders on, or after, Sept. 11, 2001, are now eligible for the Post-9/11 GI Bill and

  • Wings and wheels

    A distinguished visitor made it to the open cockpit portion of the Food for Life Day at the Hill Aerospace Museum after he missed the event extended to him by special invitation in 2009.The multipronged event held annually opens up the cockpits of several of the aircraft on display and when Robert

  • Stand Down serves veterans

    The 2010 Salt Lake City Homeless Veteran's Stand Down was held at the SLC Veteran's Medical Center Nov. 5.The Stand Down is an opportunity for the Veterans Affairs Hospital to offer services to homeless veterans from the Salt Lake City area.The one-day event offered two hot meals, medical and dental