JULY 26, 2017, NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev.(AFNS) - Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson visited Nellis and Creech Air Force Bases, Nevada from July 17-21, 2017 to meet with Airmen and witness Red Flag, the U.S. Air Force‘s premiere multi-domain integration training exercise. Wilson’s priorities of readiness and innovation were bolstered through the experiences she had … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2017
3-D Expeditionary Kit Printing in the Field Gives Soldiers More Flexibility
JULY 26, 2017, PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. - Engineers here are developing a 3-D expeditionary kit that could be used when needed to make specialty tools, spare parts, and other components to fill the time gaps between when parts break and when the replacement arrives from the original equipment manufacturers. Rapid Fabrication, also known as R-FAB, with additive manufacturing … [Read more...]
Four Coping Mechanisms for the Recently Deployed
July 26, 2017, by Amanda Wilks – According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 1 in 5 people in the general population of the USA suffer from a mental illness in a given year. In the military community, that statistic jumps up to 1 in 4. Coping mechanisms are a way to provide psychological comfort when faced with an environmental stressor. There are healthy and … [Read more...]
VA eBenefits: A Valuable Source of Information
JULY 25, 2017, NORFOLK (NNS) - Service members, dependents, veterans and their caregivers can save time by going online to get their Veterans Affairs (VA) process started electronically with the self-service VA eBenefits web portal. In 2007, The President's Commission on Care for Returning Wounded Warriors announced that it was going to create a one-stop portal that offered … [Read more...]
Student Loan Forgiveness Takes Effect in October
JULY 25, 2017, JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) - The first student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program goes into effect for government employees this October. The program offers forgiveness for remaining balances due on William D. Ford federal direct loans after employees have made at least 120 loan payments after Oct. 1, 2007, … [Read more...]