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  • Ellsworth recognizes newest staff sergeants

    One hundred twenty-eight senior airmen at Ellsworth were notified Aug. 20 of their selection for promotion. Air Force officials selected 12,209 of 28,098 eligible senior airmen for promotion to staff sergeant. The staff sergeant selection rate, 43.45 percent, increased 2.12 percent from last year.

  • Ready to respond: CDDAR team springs into action

    Like a superhero who gets a distress call, makes a quick change and rushes to assist, the Crash, Damaged, Disabled Aircraft Recovery Team stands ready to spring into action. The 35-member team goes about their normal aircraft maintenance jobs until a call assembles the recovery specialists. "Most

  • July 2008 Ellsworth Articles 15

    A staff sergeant from the 28th Operations Support Squadron received an Article 15 for one specification of false official statement. Punishment consisted of a suspended reduction to senior airman, 21 days extra duty and a reprimand. A senior airman from the Air Force Financial Services Center

  • Senior NCOs inducted, honored during ceremony

    The Ellsworth Top Three Association sponsored an induction ceremony Aug. 13 at the Dakota's club, honoring 43 master sergeant selects. Chief Master Sgt. Stephen Cron, 28th Communications Squadron superintendent, was the guest speaker for the event, which also featured remarks from Col. Scott Vander

  • New policy changes allowed dog breeds

    In response to a recent dog attack, the 28th Bomb Wing enacted supplements to its military housing pet policies which ban three different dog breeds from residing on Ellsworth and its off-base privatized housing areas: the Pit Bull, Rottweiler and Doberman pinscher. "In June 2008, at the Dakota

  • Air Force announces staff sergeant selection rates

    Air Force officials selected 12,209 of 28,098 eligible senior airmen for promotion to staff sergeant for a selection rate of 43.45 percent. The average score for those selected was 268.39, with an average time in grade and time in service of 2.25 and 4.85 years respectively. The average score was

  • 'Letter to Airmen' focuses on teamwork, discipline

    In his current Letter to Airmen, the acting secretary of the Air Force designated the month of August for strategic planning and explains how the Air Force's top leaders will focus on a number of issues. "Along with General Schwartz and other senior leaders, I am reviewing a range of issues that

  • Airmen feedback essential to additional duty study

    Airmen may now take advantage of a free-form text questionnaire, readily identifying additional duties they believe are non-value added or need redesigning. The Air Force Manpower Agency here will use this feedback to assist in the Air Force's drive to reduce additional duty demands in order to free

  • Adopt-a-Plane program helps Airmen preserve history

    The South Dakota Air and Space Museum opened two of its aircraft Aug. 6, to gather an inventory and perform an overall inspection of both planes in preparation for the museum's new Adopt-a-Plane program; the inventory will include original documents, manuals and other artifacts found in the planes.