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  • Base has 3 new Master Sergeant selects

    The Regular Active Duty Air Force promotion system promotes the best-qualified noncommissioned officers and senior noncommissioned officers based on the quality of their records while recognizing each individual Airman’s potential for advancement to the next rank.Out of the 20 eligible Technical

  • Diversity and Inclusion update

    The Department of the Air Force, on behalf of both the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force, stood up a special task force June 9, to address the issue of racial, ethnic and other demographic disparities and their impact on the forces.

  • Homestead ARB holds COVID-19 testing

    With the number of positive COVID-19 cases growing across the United States, the 482nd Fighter Wing here, in conjunction with state and Air Force agencies, held a mass testing July 2 at the Sam Johnson Fitness Center.“Similar to our surrounding community, Homestead ARB has experienced COVID-19

  • VCSAF’s challenge invites Reserve Citizen Airmen to submit ideas

    What’s your idea to save Airmen time?Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Stephen Wilson initiated a challenge to Airmen, including Reservists, to come up with and submit their ideas on how Airmen can improve processes, save time and complete the Air Force mission more effectively.Wilson’s

  • Homestead ARB to salute COVID-19 frontline personnel

    Four F-16s from the 482nd Fighter Wing at Homestead Air Reserve Base will honor frontline COVID-19 responders and essential workers with a formation flight over many South Florida hospitals May 23.The flyover is part of America Strong, an initiative to conduct a series of flyovers in major cities to

  • "Mako Medics" join the fight of COVID-19

    Almost a dozen Citizen Airmen from the 482nd Medical Squadron were mobilized this week in response to the on-going Coronavirus pandemic.Nurses and medical technicians departed on April 22 to join other reservists that were earlier called upon to provide medical support to Americans in the New York

  • Spring Focus safety news

    The 482nd Fighter Wing Safety Office has just produced its Spring Focus news brochure. Click here to read it.

  • 'Port Dawgs' honor their fallen during virtual run

    In 2011, the Air Transportation Community experienced a tragic loss when one of their brothers, Tech. Sgt. Curtis E. Eccleston died. In 2013, the “Port Dawgs” at Kadena Air Base, Japan, held a memorial run in honor of Curtis, in what would later become an annual event held around the world, and