• 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

  • Program automatically fills mobilization requirements

    To fill the 300-plus positions for the Defense Department-required exercise 'Push-Pull 2007,' Air Reserve Personnel Center officials used a new computer program to select Individual Ready Reserve Airmen to participate. The Mob-filler program has been in development for more than four years, but this

  • Directorates combine forces to improve workplace

    Employees at the Air Reserve Personnel Center are proving that taking on more work doesn't always have to be painful. Officials in the Directorate of Personnel Program management recently agreed to take responsibility for updating Total Active Federal Military and Commission Service Dates for Air

  • 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