• USAFA reservist takes home national award

    An Air Force Reserve clinical psychologist with the Peak Performance Center here recently received with the 2014 Disabled American Veterans National Commanders Award for the top Veterans Health Administrator.The Air Force core values affect everything Lt. Col. David Tharp does, and he credits them

  • Air Force to change enlisted evaluations, promotions

    Air Force officials announced a series of sweeping changes to the Enlisted Evaluation System and Weighted Airman Promotion System July 31.The changes are intended to ensure the Air Force truly makes job performance the driving factor and will be implemented incrementally beginning in August 2014 and

  • AF implements career intermission pilot program

    Up to 40 active-duty, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard officers and enlisted members who meet eligibility requirements will be offered between one and three years of partially-paid time out of uniform to focus on personal and professional pursuits under the Career Intermission Pilot Program,

  • TRICARE Nurse Advice Line offers health care guidance

    TRICARE beneficiaries in the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii can now access the Nurse Advice Line to receive health care guidance and advice.The service, launched in April 2014, offers professional help by phone at a moment's notice, officials said."Our mission at Walter Reed National Military

  • ARPC welcomes new vice commander

    Col. Sean McElhaney Pahia had a shocking moment when Maj. Gen. Peggy Poore, Air Force Personnel Center commander, told him he was going to be assigned here as the Air Reserve Personnel Center's new vice commander."There was that long pause, like, 'Did you just tell me what I think you told me?'"

  • Individual Ready Reservists Muster at Niagara

    More than 60 Airmen mustered here, July 19, 2014, fulfilling their military requirements to the Individual Ready Reserve.Unlike their traditional reserve counterparts, Airmen assigned to the IRR do not have to attend Unit Training Assemblies and are not obligated to attend annual training. The only

  • Social media requires care, caution with political material

    Most Americans are born with a political rattle in their hands, and learn to shake it early. While U.S. culture promotes opinions and debate, the Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force and Air Reserve Personnel Center wish to remind Airmen that, while on active duty - and even for reservists who may

  • Invitation to apply for Online Master's Program

    The Headquarters Air Reserve Personnel Center will convene a selection board Sept. 7 for the Online Master's Program. In order to be considered by this board, all applications must comply with the instructions outlined in attachment 1 of the invitation to apply, or the package will NOT be

  • 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

  • Four ARPC members graduate NCO academy

    Four technical sergeants from the Colorado Air National Guard here recently graduated from the Forrest L. Vosler NCO Academy Class 14-5 at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.Congratulations to the following technical sergeants:Air Reserve Personnel CenterTech. Sgt. Adam HuskaTech. Sgt. Jason BurbachTech.