Daily Report

The US military has begun the process of relocating from the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, and plans to complete the transfer of Manas back to the Kyrgyz government by July 2014 when the lease agreement for use of facilities...

Lt. Gen. Lauro Catalino Dela Cruz, commanding general of the Philippine Air Force, visited JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, last week to discuss bilateral, regional, and global issues with Pacific Air Forces Commander Gen. Hawk Carlisle. During his Oct. 16 visit,...

Saudi Arabia rejected a seat on the United Nations Security Council just hours after the UN General Assembly elected it, for the first time, to serve as one of the council’s 10 nonpermanent members. In justifying the country’s Oct. 18...

Air Force Special Operations Command will place a resiliency team in each special operations group within the next fiscal year as part of a new initiative called Preservation of the Force and Family. POTFF aims to highlight existing resources available...

The Air Force announced that changes to the service’s physical fitness test will go into effect on Oct. 21—nearly a month later than had been planned due to the federal government’s partial shutdown. They include extending waist measurement testing; realigning...

The Air Force has published new guidance clarifying its same sex-marriage policy in regard to obtaining an administrative absence to get married. Airmen who live in a state that does not legally recognize same-sex marriage are eligible for an administrative...

The several thousand Lockheed Martin employees furloughed due to the partial federal government shutdown will soon return to work now that the government is back in business, announced company officials. “We are pleased that Congress and the [Obama] Administration reached...