• Changes to academic degree and developmental education expectations

    Air Force officials announced actions designed to set clear expectations, restore Airmen's time and refocus officer promotions on job performance.The Air Force has addressed long-standing perceptions that to be promoted, officers must complete an advanced academic degree, and those officers selected

  • Service members receiving RAND Military Workplace Survey

    About 580,000 service members have begun receiving emails or letters inviting them to participate in the first RAND Military Workplace Study, Defense Department officials said.Active and reserve component members in all military branches and the Coast Guard are being invited to participate. "The

  • Three ARPC members feed, assist other riders at RAGBRAI

    Three members from the Air Reserve Personnel Center recently took to the heartland and made their presences known via their volunteering and riding efforts during the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa bicycling event held July 20-26, 2014.The RAGBRAI is a week-long bicycle touring event

  • Buckley AFB hosts IRR muster

    Buckley Air Force Base held an Air Force Individual Ready Reserve muster screening here Aug. 7, 2014. IRR musters are mandatory formations hosted by a Total Force Air Force installation commander and conducted at active duty, Guard and Reserve installations.Selected IRR members attending the one-day

  • BIMAA offices close

    The Base Individual Mobilization Augmentee Administrator offices, which provided support and training related to Individual Reservists at active-duty Air Force units, closed permanently, Aug. 11.These closures, a part of the Air Force's fiscal year 2015 force structure announcement, resulted in the

  • ARPC launches new Guard app, reduces personnel backlog

    The Air Reserve Personnel Center's separations branch launched a new automated application here Aug. 1, 2014, to reduce the large volume of backlogged customer requests to zero in the next few months."We currently have more than 2,100 customers waiting for their National Guard Bureau Form 22s," said

  • ARPC makes progress improving system reliability

    Systems, such as the virtual Personnel Center-Guard and Reserve, experience severe spikes in personnel program usage during the first weekend of every month as Citizen Airmen and Guardsmen perform required duty. As a result of these spikes, vPC-GR crashed almost without fail. Such hindrances have

  • ARPC hosts Team Buckley quarterly awards

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials hosted the Team Buckley quarterly awards ceremony for the first time here Aug. 8, 2014.Brig. Gen. Samuel C. Mahaney, ARPC commander and Chief Master Sgt. Ruthe Flores, ARPC command chief, personally congratulated the following 2nd quarter award winners:Junior

  • Reserve Affairs leaders visit ARPC

    Daniel Sitterly, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, John Fedrigo, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force Reserve Affairs and Airman Readiness, and Col. Petra McGregor, senior military assistant of Manpower and Reserve Affairs, visited with

  • Immunization Awareness Month Kicks Off in August

    August is National Immunization Awareness Month,and while vaccines are important for people of all ages, they're vital tothe Defense Department's fighting force, the director of the MilitaryVaccine Agency, Vaccine Healthcare Centers Networks said.Army Col. (Dr.) Margaret Yacovone emphasized that