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  • AFPC releases post-deployment respite guidance

    Beginning Jan. 19, 2007, eligible active-duty Airmen who deploy 12 or more months during a preceding 36-month period are entitled to administrative absence time off. All active-duty, Guard and Reserve Airmen are eligible for this time off. Separate guidance for National Guard and Reserve personnel

  • Achieve a healthy weight in 2008

    We've all been there. We ring in the new year with a list of resolutions and by March, or maybe even by the middle of the year, we've abandoned those resolutions for one reason or another. Let 2008 be the year you break the cycle. No more resolutions! The key here is goal setting. But it doesn't end

  • Andersen to exercise disease containment

    Recent events such as the anthrax attacks that struck the United States shortly after 9/11, the Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome that occurred in 2003, and Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing disaster response, have highlighted the need for the Department of Defense to be able to respond to natural

  • Andersen's lifeguards train with Guam search, rescue group

    Jeff's Pirates Cove beach was transformed into a Search and Rescue group training ground on Dec. 13. Representatives from the entire island were present including the Andersen lifeguards, Guam Fire Department, Guam Police Department, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 and

  • Two Airmen receive STEP promotions to technical sergeant

    Technical Sergeants Jason Funk, 36th Logistics Readiness Squadron, and Scott Vermeire, 736th Security Forces Squadron, both received a well-deserved holiday gift in December. They were both STEP promoted from the rank of staff sergeant to technical sergeant just in time for the New Year. Sergeant

  • B-2 LO maintainers make it happen

    In what Air Force job would one use 160 different chemicals, wear Tyvek suits, use respirators and work with putty knives, sandpaper and razorblades? The answer is B-2 Spirit low observable maintenance. Approximately 40 LO maintainers are currently deployed to Andersen from Whiteman AFB, Mo. They

  • Andersen Airman selected for Tops in Blue

    One Andersen Airman's dream came true after receiving a phone call from Tops In Blue in December 2007. Staff Sgt. Oliver Dagum, 734th Air Mobility Squadron passenger terminal supervisor, was one of 25 Airmen selected to be a part of the 2008 Tops in Blue team. "I was kind of shocked when notified by

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