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  • Air Force launches new program to capture innovative ideas

    Air Force officials announced the creation of a new program April 4, designed to harness Airmen's innovation. Airmen Powered by Innovation, or API, will replace three existing Air Force "good idea" programs - the Innovative Development through Employee Awareness, Productivity Enhancing Capital

  • Comissary case lot sale at Homestead Air Reserve Base

    Homestead Air Reserve Base will host a Defense Commissary Agency case lot sale April 3-5 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. behind the Army and Air Force Exchange Service Express, commonly known as the shoppette. The case lot sale features truckloads of merchandise which will be available to purchase on-site.

  • SecAF discusses service's top priorities

    Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James today provided a congressional panel with an overview of her top priorities for the Air Force. Joined by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, James laid out the framework for her three top priorities for the House Appropriations Committee's defense

  • DoD announces recruiting, retention numbers for FY14

    The Department of Defense announced today recruiting and retention statistics for the active and reserve components for fiscal 2014, through January 2014. All four active service components met or exceeded their numerical accession goals for fiscal 2014, through January. Army -- 17,002 accessions,

  • Get1Now allows reservists to build future, reap rewards

    Reservists can help the Air Force Reserve find candidates for the next generation of Citizen Airmen and receive rewards and recognition at the same time through the Get1Now program.Managed by the Air Force Reserve Command Recruiting Service, the program encourages reservists to recommend the people

  • Assistance fund supports families and retirees

    Select Airmen on Homestead ARB base are raising money through April 11, for the Air Force Assistance Fund to support retired Airmen and the dependents of our enlisted Airmen. Twenty-six keyworkers have been selected and trained throughout the wing to make individual contact with the units to raise

  • Base set to host annual awards banquet

    Once again the Homestead/Florida City Military Affairs Committee is set honor our military and civilian personnel of the year at the 15th Annual Awards Banquet, April 5 at the Falcons Nest Club. Members from the 482nd Fighter Wing, Special Operations Command South, U.S. Coast Guard and Florida Air

  • Defense budget proposal affects Air Force Reserve units

    The Department of Defense budget request for fiscal 2015 includes a number of proposed changes for the Air Force Reserve.If enacted into law, the DOD budget request would increase the number of Reserve fighter wings equipped with F-16 fighters, create a classic associate B-1 bomber group, increase