Patches, Nail Polish, Shaving: Dress and Grooming Standards By Chris Gordon and David Roza Airmen were subject to new uniform, grooming, and appearance standards starting Feb. 1, senior Air Force leaders announced Jan. 29. Among the changes: Duty Identifier Patches...
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Senior Master Sergeant Anthóny Colon. Senior Airman Victoria Nuzzi Senior Master Sgt. Anthony Colón was one of seven Airmen to be named among AFCEA’s 40 Under Forty for 2024. Colón, superintendent for the 43rd Aircraft Communications Maintenance Squadron at Creech...
The Air Force will launch a department-wide series of inspections of buildings across the Air Force and Space Force in the wake of an investigation into the death of a 14-year-old boy at Robins Air Force Base Ga., last summer.
Air Force leaders are directing unit commanders to conduct four “standards and readiness reviews” of their troops per year starting March 31, part of a recent push for new standards and enforcement.
The Air Force does not expect any changes to its promotion testing schedule as the service reevaluates one of the key study materials for those tests.
A new memo lays out the initial steps for how the Department of the Air Force plans to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive to send federal employees back to full-time in-person work.
The Air Force is not shutting down its equal opportunity programs, it said in a new memo, distinguishing them from the department’s sweeping review of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Acting Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs Gwendolyn Defilippi wrote that she was issuing ...
The Air Force has not found a higher death rate from cancer among missileers and other service members who served decades ago near America’s nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, service officials said Jan. 30.
The Air Force’s various “Athena” programs focused on women’s readiness issues have shut down as the service conducts a review to follow President Donald Trump’s executive orders on diversity, equity, and inclusion.