Dec. 10, 2020 Military spouses eligible for unemployment benefits following PCS Military spouses often move with their service member, which can mean having to leave a place of employment.
Dec. 8, 2020 December Enlisted Promotions The following 433rd Airlift Wing and 960th Cyberspace Wing Airmen, on the date indicated, earned a promotion in grade to the following:
Dec. 7, 2020 Department of the Air Force moves Physical Fitness Assessments to April 2021, removes waist measurement from composite score permanently To ensure social distancing practices remain in place during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and to give Airmen and Space Professionals time to prepare, testing was delayed from October to January and is now further delayed to April.
Dec. 1, 2020 Air Force hits record retention levels, reviews voluntary force management efforts The Department of the Air Force is seeing its highest retention levels in 20 years, second only to rates recorded shortly after 9/11 in 2002.
Nov. 30, 2020 Air Force Services Center launches Air Force Gaming Air Force Gaming made its official debut Nov. 11, under the Air Force Services Center with a new intramural e-sports program. AFG is focused on supporting the Air Force’s resiliency and retention efforts through the creation of a global esports program that brings Airmen and Space Professionals
Nov. 30, 2020 ARNORTH'S Task Force 51 ensures readiness for hurricane responses With this year’s hurricane season starting to wind down, Task Force 51 already began preparations for the next season. As part of their annual training, the task force completed a long and grueling week of training called Level II Deployment Readiness Exercise at the Joint Base San Antonio-Kelly
Nov. 25, 2020 502 ABW/CC tours Formal Training Unit dorms Brig. Gen. Caroline M. Miller, 502nd Air Base Wing commander, and Lt. Col. Brian K. Strickland, 502nd Civil Engineer Group deputy director, toured the 433rd Airlift Wing’s C-5M Super Galaxy formal training unit’s two student lodging facilities here Nov. 24.
Nov. 25, 2020 Air Force Competencies lay foundation for Airmen Success In today’s competency-based approach to Force Development, the Air Force will now be able to capture what an Airman “knows and can do” through the newly released Airman’s Foundational Competencies.
Nov. 25, 2020 JBSA medical facilities support Operation Warp Speed Joint Base San Antonio’s Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, or WHASC, and Brooke Army Medical Center are supporting the Department of Defense on Operation Warp Speed, which seeks to pioneer vaccines for COVID-19. The vaccine trial began at JBSA Nov. 5.
Nov. 23, 2020 Thanksgiving closures For San Antonio Military Health System facilities Thanksgiving closures For San Antonio Military Health System facilities