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  • Portrait of an active shooter

    A thin sliver of light shone through the break between two heavy, dark curtains. No one saw, no one noticed the slight, almost imperceptible, movement of fabric. Everyone's attention was focused at the base of the stage where Col. Douglas Mellars, 422nd Air Base Group commander, was briefing Airmen

  • SECAF discusses current, future challenges with 501st CSW

    Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James visited RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth, United Kingdom, to learn more about the mission of the 501st Combat Support Wing and to discuss with Airmen the current state of the Air Force. During her visit, James was able to meet with 501st CSW Airmen and

  • Existing tools help users reduce PII breaches

    Members of 24th Air Force are refurbishing an old email tool to help Air Force users reduce breaches of personally identifiable information, or PII.The Digital Signature Enforcement Tool, or DSET, which currently prompts users to provide a digital signature when an email contains an active hyperlink

  • POW/MIA community needs ‘sweeping’ changes, official says

    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's decision to restructure department agencies that recover and identify Americans who were prisoners of war and missing in action represents changes that were necessary, a senior defense official said today."The decisions are based on dispassionate analytical

  • AF selects 9,403 for promotion to staff sergeant

    More than 9,000 senior airmen have been selected for promotion to staff sergeant, Air Force officials said, July 10. The 9,403 selected represent 25.59 percent of the 36,739 eligible.To see the list of selectees, go the myPers website at https://mypers.af.mil, select "search all components" in the

  • Latest Airman magazine issue now available

    The July/August issue of Airman magazine is now available to download and viewable through a Web browser.Our cover story, titled "The Perfect Edge" takes you into the forests of Washington state to learn how survival, evasion, resistance and escape students learn to survive in austere environments