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  • Foam test e-mail overflows with perception problems

    A B-1 hangar is filled with more suds than a jolly-green-giant-sized keg. There are people standing around with suds up to their eyeballs. People are standing on top of the rafters in the building as foam and bubbles continue to rise.Did a glacier melt in South Dakota? Did some kind of ultra-secret

  • Load crew competition tests best crews in wing

    "Crew, Attention! Break," echoes through the hangar April 7, marking the start of the first Weapons Load Crew of the Quarter competition for 2006. The four-member team springs into action from the attention-like stance held during the pre-competition safety briefing.Participation in this competition

  • March 2006 Articles 15

    Two Ellsworth Airmen received Articles 15 in March.An airman first class from the 28th Maintenance Squadron received an Article 15 for one specification of drunk driving. Punishment consisted of a reduction to airman basic, 45 days extra duty and 45 days restriction to base.An airman first class

  • 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 --