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  • Weather team prepares for hurricane season

    Hurricanes and other forces of nature have the power to end lives in an instant. With hurricane season already in swing as of Tuesday, the 316th Operations Group weather flight remains vigilant and tracks all storms heading for the National Capital Region."Our job is to take the forecast that the

  • NSPS conversion to GS quickly approaching for HQ AFDW civilians

    HQ AFDW National Security Personnel System employees will convert out of NSPS July 4, 2010. All actions associated with the termination of NSPSmust be complete within 90 days of the July transition date.To assist NSPS employees in meeting the established termination date, HQ USAF/A1 has provided

  • Airmen enrolled in distance learning courses experience system outage

    A Student Administration and Registrar system outage within Air University impacts 115,962 Airmen enrolled in distance learning courses hosted on Air University Online. The system repair date is unknown.CDSAR experienced a serious technical malfunction May 13, impacting Air University, Maxwell AFB,

  • Volunteers support military families, honors the fallen

    Surviving families of fallen service members gathered for the 16th annual Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors National Military Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp on Memorial Day weekend at Crystal Gateway Marriot, Arlington, Va.Since 1995, parents, spouses, siblings and other adults have

  • Andrews hosts presidential Memorial Day speech

    President Barack Obama spoke to a small crowd of military members and their families May 31 in the Tactical Fitness Center on Joint Base Andrews.The speech had been scheduled to take place at Abraham Lincoln National Memorial in Elwood, Ill., but was canceled due to severe weather. Rather than

  • Before you tweet know the rules of twittering

    The availability of social media tools, such as Twitter, on Air Force networks pose a threat to operational security. There are rules that Airmen should be aware of before tweeting. Twitter collects personally identifiable information, or PPI, that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or

  • Bolling Airman speaks during Memorial Day event

    Like so many of you, I served overseas, far from home. I deployed to Balad, Iraq, in 2007, and cared for our wounded who fought so bravely, fighting to save them as they lay broken, amid the chaos of war. As is said each Memorial Day, "All gave some, and some gave all."While we saw many win the