• Commissaries observe Veterans Day with exclusive savings

    Commissaries worldwide are offering exclusive savings events leading up to Veterans Day.During what's billed as the "Support Your Veterans Day Sales Event," stores are collaborating with their industry partners to offer exclusive savings through in-store sales promotions including high-value coupons

  • Understanding deployments the kid way

    With the chill of the night still in the air on the morning of Nov. 1, 40 kids answered the call to duty during Operation Kids Investigating Deployment Services.Operation KIDS is an annual event designed to introduce military children to deployment operations that parents may experience.For those

  • Rigors of ROTC field training

    For many college, students the summer between their sophomore and junior years is a good time to do a study abroad program or work a part-time job while earning a few more credits in summer school. For Air Force ROTC cadets, it is the summer they participate in the highly competitive program known

  • Enlisted promotion system changes continue with weighted factor adjustments

    This January, changes to the Weighted Airman Promotion System (WAPS) will continue with adjustments to the scoring model for promotions to technical sergeant and below, all designed to help ensure job performance is the most important factor when evaluating and identifying Airmen for promotion.The