New USAF Brown and Blue Books; Refusing COVID vaccine leads to general discharges; 10-year low in E-7 promotions; Space Force eases uniform policies; AMC endurance record set.
Lt. Gen. Brian T. Kelly
Two of the Air Force’s foundational documents received updates May 6, as the service released new versions of its Blue and Brown Books—“The Profession of Arms: Our Core Values” and "The Enlisted Force Structure,” respectively. The release of the new texts, which lay down many ...
Nearly eight years after the Air Force switched to standardized “static” closeout dates for its enlisted Airmen’s performance reports, it is poised to do the same for most of its officer corps. Starting in October 2022 and extending into 2023, officers from O-1 to O-6 ...
Striking a balance between mission requirements and Airmen’s preferences is one of the biggest challenges for the Air Force’s talent management, the service’s personnel boss told Congress on Feb. 8. And one of the trickiest aspects to that balance involves the moves that so often ...
Airmen and Guardians will get to familiarize themselves with the Department of the Air Force’s new enlisted and officer evaluation system application starting Jan. 18, as the department continues its overhaul of talent management.
Airmen looking to become NCOs will face a new-look test in 2022, the Air Force announced Dec. 16, as the service emphasizes good judgment in its promotion system. In previous years, the Promotion Fitness Examination included 100 knowledge-based questions. Now, potential E-5s and E-6s will ...
With several thousand Airmen still unvaccinated against COVID-19, the Air Force is reportedly introducing a new consequence for those without a medical or administrative exemption. Starting Nov. 29, unvaccinated Airmen will be blocked from moving to new assignments unless they are on existing PCS orders ...
Leaders welcome a wider reckoning with discrimination and harassment.
Airmen gained options as the Air Force dropped its one-size-fits-all approach to measuring fitness. Service leaders used the pandemic break to dig into the science of measuring fitness, rolling out a series of changes before testing resumed July 1. More changes are coming soon.
Afghanistan Exit; Force Generation Redo; New PT Uniforms; JADC2 Program Office; and more ...
The Department of the Air Force will resume revamped physical fitness testing on July 1 after a lengthy, COVID-induced delay, but still more changes are coming as the service is set to debut new alternative options for the test in January 2022. In a virtual ...
Suicide rates in the Air Force are starting to drop after back-to-back years of exceptionally high rates as the department enacts new policies to address the problem. There were more than 100 suicides in the Air Force in both 2019 and 2020, causing leaders to ...
