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  • 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

  • Breedlove: Russian actions bring Europe to decisive point

    The aggressive actions by Russia in Ukraine have brought Europe to perhaps the most decisive point since the end of the Cold War, and additional rotational forces may be needed on the continent for the sustained presence now envisioned, the top U.S. commander in Europe said today.Air Force Gen.

  • Dempsey: Iraqi National Unity Needed to Counter ISIL

    The formation of a national unity government in Iraq will be key to defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told National Public Radio Friday.Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said it is clearly to America's advantage to oppose ISIL. American teams now