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  • March 2006 discharges

    Five Ellsworth Airmen were discharged in March in accordance with Air Force Instruction 36-3208, Administrative Separation of Airmen.An airman basic from the 28th Maintenance Squadron was involuntarily discharged on March 3 for a pattern of misconduct - specifically, conduct prejudicial to good

  • Air Force announces new call center locations

    Air Force officials announced today the proposed sites for the Air Force Financial Services Center and the Air Force Claims Service Center (AFCSC).These choices resulted from analyzing several competing locations lasting more than eight months, and involved support and coordination from many

  • DOD program helps employers, reservists

    A Department of Defense program is easing the transition from business suit to battle dress uniform and back again for Reserve and Guard members serving throughout the world.The national committee for the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, or ESGR, is a nationwide network of nearly 4,200

  • ACC takes combat search, rescue assets under wing

    Air Combat Command took administrative control of select Air Force combat search and rescue assets from Air Force Special Operations Command Monday as part of a realignment announced in February.The transfer ensures Air Force combat search and rescue, or CSAR, is directly linked to the combat air

  • Airmen speak in 2005 climate survey

    More than half of all Airmen participated in the 2005 chief of staff organization climate survey, which allows participants to voice their opinions on issues affecting them and their jobs.Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. T. Michael Moseley released the results of the survey to all the major

  • New civilian personnel system to mean slight pay raise for most

    Most of the first 11,000 Defense Department civilian employees to convert to the new civilian personnel system in April will receive a pay increase, an official said March 30.About 85 percent of people will see an initial bump in pay when they are enrolled in the new National Security Personnel

  • SECAF testifies on future budget concerns

    The Secretary of the Air Force explained the Air Force priorities that drive the fiscal 2007 budget request to members of the Senate Appropriations Com-mittee subcommittee on defense March 29.Secretary Michael Wynne told the committee there are three crucial areas of concern for the Air Force --

  • Tickets to go on sale for Dining Out

    For the first time in eight years, Ellsworth will host a Dining Out.It will take place May 5 at 6 p.m. at Dakota’s, with tickets available to base military members and their guests starting Monday.Tickets are limited, though, so each unit will only have an available number of tickets proportional to

  • Humanitarian relief remains constant priority

    In a turbulent world, with natural disasters striking at random and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan surging with a tide of violence, one thing has remained constant -- U.S. Air Force humanitarian relief operations.These operations, planned out of the Combined Air Operations Center, have answered

  • Three Air Force trailblazers among Hall of Fame inductees

    Three Air Force trailblazers were among the five women inducted into the Women in Aviation, International, Pioneer Hall of Fame here Saturday.An audience of more than 2,000 people witnessed the induction of three retired officers -- Maj. Gen. Jeanne Holm, Maj. Gen. Betty Mullis and Lt. Col. Betty