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  • Resiliency helps families adjust during deployments, after homecomings

    The four pillars of resiliency - physical, mental, spiritual and social fitness - are often used to illustrate a healthy Air Force lifestyle. Perhaps one of the most relevant uses for these principles is when a family is struggling to cope with a deployment, or is working to pick up where they left

  • Family Advocacy Program helps families face sexual abuse

    Victims of sexual abuse don't always know their attackers, but often the source of their trauma is all too close to home.The 28th Medical Operations Squadron assists Airmen and their families in the recovery process after these incidents through their Family Advocacy Program.Lee Sasse, 28th MDOS FAP

  • ROTC – do you have what it takes?

    The path to a commission in the U.S. Air Force requires a great deal of commitment and sacrifice. One path to which many have chosen to commit is ROTC - a four-or two-year program based on AF requirements - designed to produce outstanding officers for the Air Force. Located in Montgomery, Ala., the

  • SARM Airmen prepare aircrews for flight

    While aircrews are busy performing missions, training at their home station or even getting a flight physical, there are Airmen standing by, tracking every minute of it - these are the Airmen of Squadron Aviation Resource Management. Nearly 230 personnel are assigned to the 432nd Attack Squadron,

  • FOD for thought

    Imagine losing your line badge on the flightline, and finding out later you were responsible for causing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to an aircraft.Priced at more than $3,700,000 each, a B-1 bomber's engines and a variety of other vital parts - flight controls, ejection seats,

  • Contract Field Team expedites maintenance

    A cadre of 33 former U.S. Air Force aircraft maintainers - now serving as Department of Defense contracted civilians - work alongside Ellsworth Airmen to create a unique shop that represents various career fields and years of experience geared toward expediting maintenance. The group - official

  • Sexual harassment can affect more than just victim

    It's a known fact that the memory of being sexually harassed can stay with a victim forever, but many may not realize how widespread that effect can be. The 28th Bomb Wing Equal Opportunity office aims to reduce the amount of sexual harassments in Ellsworth's work centers with a proactive approach

  • GI Bills - decisions, decisions, decisions

    Airmen are eligible for a variety of benefits - ranging from medical care to paid vacation time - and all members take advantage of these opportunities. One incentive for joining the Air Force that is often not used, however, is the ability to receive a college education at little or no cost. Airmen

  • Ellsworth’s explosive Airmen

    Explosions usually bring on thoughts of action movies portraying actors walking away from a billowing cloud of fire and smoke, in slow motion with shrapnel flying behind them, as while thunderous music plays in the background. Real-life explosive experts, however, such as the 28th Civil Engineer

  • SVC provides support to sexual assault victims

    The Special Victim's Counsel, a new Air Force program, will be implemented Jan. 28 and will provide legal assistance to victims of sexual assault."Until the SVC program began, there were only two kinds of lawyers involved in dealing with sexual assault crimes -- prosecutors who represent the