The Air Force wants all commanders to know where their people are 24/7 to facilitate operations and recovery during and after disasters or emergencies. It sounds like a reasonable request in light of the confusion surrounding last year’s Hurricane Katrina, right? Air Force Materiel Command has a problem, though, because it has the highest number of civilians of any major command in the service, and civilians don’t have to let anyone know where they go on leave. AFMC’s solution: Ask for the information to be volunteered. At this point, the command is not even asking any union employees.
Active-Duty Airmen only have a few days left to submit an official waist-to-height ratio into the Air Force’s new online application. But the service clarified July 23 that this first body composition measurement is not meant to be scored as part of the new Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment, or PFRA