May 5, 2014, WASHINGTON (AFNS) - The Air Force revamped the Knowledge Management career-field, aiming to make its Airmen into some of the service’s top innovators working in newly established KM centers Air-Force-wide. The KM career-field split, announced earlier this year, moved 80 percent of its Airmen to the new Administration Air Force Specialty Code 3A1X1. … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2014
Gary Sinise Foundation and Hope For The Warriors® Partner to Meet Needs of Military Families
LOS ANGELES, CA, May 5, 2014 - The Gary Sinise Foundation and Hope For The Warriors® announce the building of a renewed and growing partnership to meet the needs and challenges of today’s military families. Both nonprofits are dedicated to serving military members, veterans and their families and have already worked closely together for more than four years. The … [Read more...]
Georgia National Guard Assisting in Regionally Aligned Forces Training
May 05, 2014, TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Georgia Guard members will be in Central America in May and June training the Honduran military in law enforcement operations, close quarters combat operations and combat life saving operations. These Citizen-Soldiers will help nearly 250 Hondurans build capacity and capability to combat transnational criminal organizations and drug … [Read more...]
World War II Internment Camp Survivors Honored 70 Years Later
May 2, 2014, WASHINGTON (AFNS) - Nine U.S. Army Air Forces airmen who were interned at the Wauwillermoos Camp in Switzerland seven decades ago finally were honored with the Prisoner of War Medal, April 30. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III presented the awards to eight surviving men and to the family of a Ninth airman in a ceremony at the Pentagon. In 1943 and … [Read more...]
VMAQ-2 Increases Combat Proficiency
May 2, 2014, MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. - Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 increased the proficiency of their pilots with low-level navigation flights April 17 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C. During low-level navigation flights, pilots fly the EA-6B Prowler at low of altitudes while traveling at increased speeds. "This training … [Read more...]