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  • Foreign language proficiency earns Airmen more money, free college credit

    Airmen who know one or more foreign languages can apply for a pay raise of up to $ 1,000 a month, and can also earn free college credit.As sited from Air Force Instruction 36-2605, Airmen who know a foreign language are entitled to a Foreign Language Proficiency Bonus in accordance with Department

  • Deployment Mindset

    As part of an expeditionary Air Force, Airmen can expect at certain points in their career to be tasked for a deployment in support of overseas operations.Airmen must prepare themselves, and their families, mentally, physically spiritually and financially - to handle a long-term separation."I

  • Setting Airmen up for success

    After the shock of basic military training and the fast-paced learning environment of technical school has come and gone, Airmen begin the task of transitioning to their first assignment.The First-Term Airmen's Center at Ellsworth Air Force Base provides those Airmen with a class designed to help

  • Fitness tips while deployed

    With the adoption of the new Air Force physical training standards, Airmen are encourged, now more then ever, to maintain a fitness lifestyle.The following tips, from the Raider Air Base fitness center, give Airmen deployed to Raider a solid foundation for maintaining or improving their fitness

  • "Just be there for them"

    "I love you and the kids but I just can't live with myself anymore. I'm over-whelmed with life. I hurt - my head, my throat, my guts. I can't think straight anymore. I'm overwhelmed at work. I have become ineffective. I need sleep. I'm sorry!"This 26-year old Airman battled with depression over his

  • Top 10 things Airmen can do with a degree

    With the increased force shaping measures implemented throughout the Air Force, more and more Airmen are striving to find ways to stay professionally competitive.One of the options Airmen have is to work toward a degree."The Air Force offers its Airmen a variety of educational benefits," said Chief

  • It’s Tabata time!

    For many Airmen, hearing about a workout routine that improves cardiovascular capacity, increases strength and the number of exercise repetitions they are able to do before failure seems too good to be true.However, what they may not know about is a routine which is living up to the hype surrounding

  • The price of freedom

    "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect

  • Honorable mention

    Their mission is to act as representatives for Airmen to both the American public and the world. They are guardians of a legacy which includes promoting the Air Force mission, protecting its standards, perfecting its image and preserving the heritage of the most powerful air power in the world."The

  • Remembering the Korean War

    It was June 25, 1950 and a group of U.S. B-29 bombers stationed at the base in Guam began bombing targets in North Korea.The action was a direct response to the North Korean People's Army crossing the 38th parallel into democratic South Korea, in an attempt to reunite both halves of the country into