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  • Personnel Center to deployers: Don’t leave without your guide

    Most Air Force members being deployed to a foreign country have little knowledge of the culture they'll work in for the next four to 12 months. They don't know a Hijab from an Abaya or a Dishdasha from a Gutra. How many times a day can you say hello to someone in Kyrgystan? Why can't you eat with

  • Next PACAF commander confirmed

    On Nov.16 the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmed Lieutenant General Carrol H. "Howie" Chandler's promotion to general and appointment as the next commander of Pacific Air Forces with change of command scheduled for Nov. 30 at Hickam Air Force Base. Lt. Gen. Chandler is currently the Deputy

  • First CMSAF earns Lifetime Achievement Award

    The first chief master sergeant of the Air Force announced he had learned the secret to winning awards to those in attendance at the Senior NCO Academy auditorium Nov. 20 here. "The secret is simple -- just live long enough," said retired Chief Paul Wesley Airey. "If you live long enough, (the

  • Officials explain recoupment policy for wounded troops

    If you are wounded in combat and discharged as a result, you will not have to pay back your enlistment bonus, Defense Department officials said here Nov. 26. "Bonuses are not recouped simply for one's inability to complete an enlistment or re-enlistment agreement through no fault of the military

  • Newest Andersen chief master sergeants announced

    Congratulations to Andersen's Chief Master Sergeant Selectees: 1. Senior Master Sgt. Ralph Bailey, 36th Communications Squadron 2. Senior Master Sgt. Stephen Batherson, 554th RED HORSE Squadron 3. Senior Master Sgt. Bret Rice, 36th Communications Squadron. Sergeant Rice is currently deployed to

  • Military members, families view B-2

    Military members and their families were able to see America's most advanced bomber and the Airmen that support the stealth bomber mission in a military community event held here Nov. 21. Members of the 393rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron and the 506th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron put their

  • Airmen support Bangladesh relief operations

    Pacific Air Forces units are providing relief in Bangladesh in the wake of a tropical cyclone which struck the nation's south coast Nov. 15 causing significant damage and thousands of casualties. Elements of the 36th Contingency Response Group from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, arrived at Dhaka,

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