• ‘Plan My Move’ step-by-step tool to ease burden for military families

    It's almost peak moving season again for military families, and Defense Department leaders want families to know new resources are available to help. "Plan My Move," soft-launched in late summer, is the next generation of DOD's MilitaryHomefront tools to provide an integrated "e-moving" solution,

  • Air Force training records go digital, saving time, money

    Air Force officials are fielding two systems currently available through the Air Force Portal that make it easier to keep on-the-job training records up-to-date, saving time and money. Each Airman's Air Force Specialty Code will determine if their records will be maintained in one of these two

  • Arctic Warrior helps deployed base with BASH

    One of the Air Force's greatest airpower adversaries doesn't wear the uniform of another country; it wears feathers. Both deadly and expensive, aircraft accidents and mishaps caused by collisions with birds have cost the service approximately $35 million each year since 1985, according to Air Force

  • Northern Edge 2008 exercise begins May 5

    The largest military training exercise in Alaska, Northern Edge 2008, begins May 5 with roughly 5,000 U.S. active duty, national guard, and reserve component Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marine participants. Alaskan Command hosts the air-centric exercise, which will involve more than 120 Air Force,

  • Retired Airmen don uniforms once again to teach JROTC cadets

     More than 1,900 Junior ROTC instructors, who teach at 869 school units throughout the world, finished their initial instructor training here last week. Jo Alice Talley, chief of JROTC instructor management at Air Force Officer Accession and Training Schools, said the newly hired instructors were

  • Study reveals activities of local bear population

    Common portrayals of bears range from the benign teddy-bear persona of Winnie the Pooh to the helpful and respected image of Smokey the Bear, from the harassed and misunderstood performing bear in "Dr. Doolittle 2" to the ferocious, man-killers in "Legends of the Fall." The truth about bears in the