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  • Marines, Airmen team up in renovation efforts for historical site

    Since the 1970s the 482nd Civil Engineering Squadron have been making trips to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas National Park assisting in preserving the historical site, but this was the first year they were joined by Marines from the 45th Combat Logistics Regiment and Airmen from the 301st

  • Reserve component blended retirement system options

    Reserve Component Service members who have accrued fewer than 4,320 retirement points prior to January 1, 2018, will have the option to opt into the Blended Retirement System or remaining in the legacy retirement system. The opt-in/election period for the Blended Retirement System begins January 1,

  • AF to reduce additional duties

    In a memorandum to Airmen released Aug. 19, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein announced the service has established a task force titled “Airmen’s Time,” charged with streamlining, and in some cases eliminating, additional duties.

  • Chapel services now available during UTAs

    For the first time since 2014, the 482nd Fighter Wing Chapel offered religious services to HARB Airmen, Aug. 7.The chapel is offering nondenominational services every Sunday during Unit Training Assemblies at 10 a.m. Unremitting improvement of spiritual fitness aimed at Team Homestead is what the

  • SOCSOUTH enhance command, control interoperability during Panamax 16

    Special Operations Command South hosted military personnel from the partner countries of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama and Peru from July 25 to Aug. 4 during this year’s Panamax.Panamax is an annual U.S. Southern Command-sponsored multinational exercise focused on ensuring

  • Air Force declares the F-35A ‘combat ready’

    The F-35A Lightning II fifth generation fighter aircraft was declared ‘combat ready’ today by Gen. Hawk Carlisle, the commander of Air Combat Command.Carlisle lauded the aircraft’s performance, noting that the aircraft had met all key criteria for reaching initial operational capability.Airmen

  • SFS, EOD show skills during active shooter exercise

    Gunfire rang out signaling the beginning of a base exercise where nine people were gunned down via simulation using blank rounds by two volunteers acting as disgruntled Airmen during an exercise here July 26.Initial reports let 482nd Security Forces Squadron Airmen know that the gunfire was heard in

  • Aerial port helps send fire truck to Guatemala in humanitarian relief effort

    Airmen from the 70th Aerial Port Squadron and a C-17 Globemaster II flight crew from Joint Base Lewis-McCord, Washington, teamed up to help get a second donated fire truck to a city in Guatemala on July 17.The city of Coral Gables, Florida, donated two fire trucks to their sister city, La Antigua,