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  • AF officials streamline overseas outprocessing guidelines

    Air Force Personnel Center officials here recently introduced a new initiative that will streamline final processing for Airmen retiring or separating from overseas areas. With this change, additional travel to a separation processing base is no longer required. The new procedure is part of Air

  • AFPC officials to offer personnel course for commanders

    The Air Force Personnel Center here is launching a new course designed to provide squadron commanders outside the personnel career field with the latest in Air Force military and civilian personnel programs and procedures, as well as information on the Air and Space Expeditionary Force construct.

  • Policy update to make civilian hiring quicker

    To increase the efficiency in filling civilian vacancies, effective New Year's Day, selecting officials will have 45 days instead of 90 to choose the best-qualified candidate. "We continue to refine the civilian hiring process where we can to speed up the hiring action," said Maj. Gen. K.C. McClain,

  • Taiwan Air Force visits AFPC to exchange personnel ideas

    Members of the Taiwan air force visited the Air Force Personnel Center here Dec. 12 to gain knowledge on how to establish an all-volunteer force. Fifteen members of the TAF, including Taiwan's Administrative Deputy Minister of Defense Lt. Gen. Yu-Pao Lin and Rear Adm. Chih-lung "Larry" Tan, director

  • Course gives officers new outlook on force support

    The first Force Support Officers' Course graduated 57 officers Dec. 11 at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., with Lt. Gen. Richard Newton on hand to congratulate the officers on their achievement. "These outstanding officers made history as they walked across the stage," said General Newton, the deputy

  • Tax center seeks volunteers

    Tax volunteers are needed to ensure the Team Eglin Tax Center can provide free tax services to the Eglin military community. The tax center completes and e-files tax returns free of charge for all active duty military personnel, reservists, National Guard members, civil service employees, retired

  • TRICARE family receives world-class care

    On a cold February day in 2004, a TRICARE family welcomed two beautiful conjoined twin girls into the world. Through a routine prenatal ultrasound at 18 weeks, the Buckles learned their babies were joined at the chest and abdomen. At 34 weeks in her pregnancy, a surgical team at National Naval

  • Eglin send security forces Airmen to Iraq in style

    A wall of red shirts makes its way through a crowd of 97 Airmen preparing to board an aircraft and make the journey over the Atlantic Ocean bound for the Middle East. The Red Shirt Brigade, a group of volunteers from the Army and Air Force Exchange Service and members of the Fort Walton Beach

  • AFRL scientist selected for Civilian Development Education

     A scientist from the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate here has been selected for an Air Force senior development education program called the National Laboratory Technical Fellowship Program. John Cominiello is the first civilian to be selected for NLTFP at Sandia National

  • Fisher House brings home front to wounded GIs

    Winter weather took a break and the sun shone as more than 200 people attended the Dec. 18 groundbreaking of the Emerald Coast Fisher House, located by design across the street from the base hospital. Set to open its doors a year from now, the site of the future Fisher House boasts a 10,000