• ARPC announces annual award winners

    The commander of the Air Reserve Personnel Center honored ARPC's 2012 Outstanding Performers of the Year as well as their A1 annual award winners during commander's call today. "We are all the big A in Airmen - civilians, active duty, Guard, and Reserve," Brig. Gen. Jay Flournoy said. "I've been so

  • ARPC announces RSSB selection results

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials here announced selection results from the semi-annual Reserve School Selection Board. The selection board convened at the center Feb. 19 - 21 to match selected members to their respective schools based upon the needs of the Air Force Reserve followed by

  • MilPDS upgrade begins

     Editor's note: This one of a series of articles to inform total force Airmen about personnel programs affected by the Military Personnel Data System upgrade occurring in March.The Military Personnel Data System will be offline for 23 days, as of this morning, to allow the Air Force Personnel

  • CSAF to Airmen: We'll get through sequestration together

    To the Airmen of the United States Air Force:March is here, and unfortunately, so is sequestration...that means the entire Department of Defense, including our Air Force, will experience about a nine percent budget cut across all programs--starting now, and with no ability to adjust which accounts

  • President nominates 1st female Air Force Academy superintendent

    The president of the United States nominated Maj. Gen. Michelle Johnson for the appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and for assignment to serve as Air Force Academy's 19th superintendent. If confirmed by the Senate, Johnson would become the first woman to hold the position.Currently

  • Reserve pararescueman aims to climb Mt Everest

    Staff Sgt. Nicholas Gibson has spent most of his life in Florida, one of the flattest states in the nation with its highest natural point reaching 345 feet -- the lowest high point of any state in the U.S. While he loves the sunshine state and calls it home, Gibson has always had a desire to reach

  • ARPC announces captain promotions

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials announced the second half of CY12B line and nonline captain promotions. There were 269 Air National Guard and 157 Air Force Reserve officers selected for promotion to captain. The complete list is available online. For more information on the promotion release,

  • Valor website now includes pre-9/11 Medal of Honor recipients

    The names of Medal of Honor recipients recognized for their battlefield valor before Sept. 11, 2001, now are listed on the Defense Department's valor website, Pentagon officials announced today."Recognizing our brave men and women for their heroic actions is one of the most important things we can

  • Hagel takes office as 24th SecDef

    Just before his private swearing-in ceremony as the 24th secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel and his wife, Lilibet, arrived at the Pentagon this morning and were greeted by Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, military assistant to the secretary of defense.Hagel said hello to waiting members of