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  • Dietary Choices impact Physical and Mental Health

    Diet plays a significant role in our physical and mental health. Both overconsumption and malnutrition contribute to a number of health problems in developed countries including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and premature mortality. Not surprisingly, poor diet is also associated with increased

  • SERE: Teaching how to survive

    The responsibility of ensuring these pilots are safe and have the knowledge and skills to make it home safe in any situation they might endure lies heavily on the shoulders of survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists.

  • HQ RIO; making it easy to serve

    The Air Force Reserve Individual Mobilization Augmentee (IMA) forces are part of a global organization comprised of the best Airmen our nation has to offer. As commander, Headquarters Readiness and Integration Organization (HQ RIO), it is an absolute privilege to serve the nearly 8,000 IMAs around

  • ARCNet individual readiness report modifications

    ARCNet is releasing modifications to the individual readiness report on 11 October 2019. These modifications will streamline the display to what is needed for calculating an individual’s readiness.Fields for Last Decoration, Evaluation, and PME are being removed from the report. Any comments older

  • AROWS-R orders requests must be submitted by Oct. 17, 2019

    The Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System (DEAMS) is scheduled to be upgraded to the latest version of Oracle software starting Nov. 4, 2019.Prior to DEAMS going down all AROWS-R orders requests scheduled before, during or shortly after the DEAMS upgrade MUST be created and fully

  • Reservist beats feet at Air Force Marathon

    As the morning temperature began to rise, both physical and mental conditions started to deteriorate for 1,331 participants from around the globe who had prepared their bodies and minds for the twenty-six plus miles ahead for the 23rd Annual Air Force Marathon at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,

  • Around the Air Force: Air, Space & Cyber

    Today's look around the Air Force features key topics and discussion points highlighted by Defense and Air Force leaders during the Air, Space and Cyber Symposium at National Harbor, MD. (Hosted by Senior Airman Angelo Rosario)

  • Around the Air Force: Air, Space & Cyber

    On this look around the Air Force, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein, shares his outlook at the Air Force Association’s 2019 Air, Space and Cyber Conference. His speech focused on multi-domain operations and the future Air Force.

  • AMC commander talks readiness, transformation at AFA

    Throughout the Air Force Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference, Sept. 16-18, at National Harbor, Maryland, defense and Air Force leaders spoke about the need for change as the Department of Defense focuses its attention on great power competition at the direction of the 2018 National Defense

  • Air Force fields new hiring process for new first sergeants

    The Air Force has removed the first sergeant assignment from developmental special duty and is using a combination volunteer and nomination process when bringing on first sergeants for their initial assignments in the career field to ensure the right Airmen are selected and assigned to these special

  • Roper: Air Force of the future is faster, smarter, bolder

    “To become a more competitive acquisition system, the Air Force needs to be aware of trends in technology,” Roper said. “The world is changing, we have to change with it. The key is to decide which technology will be successful and being able to act on those trends with a system that is leaner,

  • AFH1 phone app available now on Apple and Google Play

    The AFH1 app includes the “The Air Force Handbook 1,” and study guide, as well as Air Force Instruction 36-2618, The Enlisted Force Structure, known as the “The Little Brown Book.” There is also access to the “The Little Blue Book” which focuses on the profession of arms. Other tools such as flash