• Anthrax vaccinations mandatory again for high-threat deployments

    Anthrax vaccinations became mandatory March 19 for Air Force reservists who have or will deploy to a high-threat area for more than 15 days. Mandatory vaccinations are limited to Airmen in specific high-threat areas (U.S. Central Command area of responsibility and the Korean peninsula) for more than

  • New Guard/Reserve fact sheets released

    The Air Reserve Personnel Center released the 2007 Guard and Reserve Personnel Fact Sheets on Feb. 28. This publication offers valuable information on a variety of subjects including pay charts, force development, promotion and retirement information, entitlement benefits, assignment information and

  • Guard-specific capabilities go online

    ANG gets automated services Air National Guardsmen gained access to online personnel services March 5. Through the virtual Personnel Center - Guard and Reserve, Guardsmen around the world are able to correct or change their duty history by logging on to the vPC-GR. "The ultimate goal is to improve

  • Reservists urged to establish vPC-GR accounts

    Air Force Reserve Command officials want officers, senior NCOs and supervisors to establish virtual Personnel Center - Guard/Reserve, or vPC-GR, accounts by April 2. Maj. Gen. Allan R. Poulin, AFRC vice commander, urges all reservists to get a vPC-GR account, by logging on to the vPC-GR Web site.

  • Charter members reflect on Air Guard's first 60 years

    Their membership gets older and smaller every day. Nearly 60 years have passed since they formed, but time has not removed distant memories of 1946-47 after they had claimed victory in World War II and flew as Air National Guardsmen. You may have met them outside your shop or at a base function:

  • Kansas Guardsman completes first online retirement

    A Kansas Air National Guardsman was the first Guard Airman to complete the new online Air Force retirement process, which became mandatory April 15. Tech. Sgt. Kenneth L. Ellis, of the 190th Civil Engineer Squadron, applied for retirement using the system March 15, the day the process went live, and

  • Issues for family life insurance payments identified

    Reservists need to keep their personal information up-to-date in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility System and the Military Personnel Data Systems or they may risk unnecessary debt collection for their Family Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance coverage. DOD officials identified marital data

  • ARPC offers hot tips to advance officers' careers

    As the Air Force slashes 40,000 Airmen from its books to fund aircraft modernization, officers scramble to be retained and promoted. A successful career requires many components, often referred to as the whole-person concept. It requires solid performance, demonstrating leadership, performing

  • Verifying points ensures credit goes to current year

    After Reserve Airmen have performed active or inactive duty and have been paid, the points earned will automatically update to the current retention/retirement year. Airmen who submit for pay late (months or even years after the duty was performed) and the duty days fall within a previous

  • ARPC stands by on UTA weekends

    For more than a year now, Airmen at the Air Reserve Personnel Center have been manning phones on the first weekend of each month to support Guard and Reserve Airmen who are performing their monthly military training. "(Unit Training Assembly weekends) are another opportunity when our Guard and