• RCSBP Open Enrollment Ends 30 September 2006

    The RCSBP Open Enrollment is coming to an end Sept. 30, 2006. If you are eligible to receive retired pay, you are eligible to participate in this program. Airmen must complete the Reserve Component Survivor Benefit Plan Form, DD Form 2656-9, for enrollment no later than Sept. 30, 2006. For further

  • Air Force Reserve changes officer promotion system

    Air Force Reserve Command is changing its officer promotion system to meet future total force requirements. The command will implement the changes starting with the Oct. 16 Air Force Reserve line and non-line colonel promotion selection board, with results of the board to be announced early next

  • Lowry to hold POW/MIA vigil

    To commemorate National POW/MIA Recognition Day, military and civilian employees will hold a 24-hour Prisoner of War/Missing in Action vigil at the Air Reserve Personnel Center's Lowry flag pole beginning Thursday. Volunteers from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, 4th Manpower Requirements

  • Personnel records continue going electronic

    Continuing the process of transferring personnel records to an electronic format, Air Force officials will begin scanning the Unit Personnel Record Group of active-duty Airmen in October. "Right now, there is only one copy of the UPRG, which is kept at each unit," said Jo Hogue, chief of master

  • Reactivated? Don't let your family lose Tricare Prime coverage

    The families of National Guardsmen and Reservists enrolled in Tricare Prime under the Transitional Assistance Management Program are automatically switched to Tricare Standard when their sponsors are recalled to active duty. But new rules allow them to keep their Prime coverage when they re-enroll

  • vPC-GR adds awards, decorations processing

    Reservists will have another capability in their Personnel Service Delivery toolbox Monday when officials release the online awards and decorations function. With the release, Reserve Airmen will submit awards and decorations requests online through the virtual Personnel Center Guard and Reserve

  • Officials announce Reserve colonel promotions

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials announced the fiscal 2007 Air Force Reserve Line and Nonline Colonel Promotion Selection Board results today. The board selected 343 Airmen for promotion. A selection board convened at the center here Oct. 16-21 to determine those officers qualified to assume

  • ARPC announces reserve captain promotions

    The Air Reserve Personnel Center announces the fiscal 2007 Reserve Line and Nonline Captain's Promotions. There were 1,271 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve officers selected for promotion. Officers may not assume the grade of captain until the secretary of defense signs the nominations, the

  • ARPC launches customer satisfaction survey

    Leaders at the Air Reserve Personnel Center here want to hear what their customers are thinking. "We've developed an online survey to give our customers the opportunity to tell us about their experience with our service," said Col. Ann Shippy, ARPC commander. The survey, which was posted on the ARPC

  • ARPC officer receives first online-processed award

    When officials at the Air Reserve Personnel Center launched the latest online personnel capability to Reservists worldwide, they didn't know it would be one of their own that would be first to benefit from it. Capt. Karrie Bracken, who worked as ARPC's contracting officer from July 1 to Nov. 30,