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  • Congratulations to Homestead ARB's recent promotees

    Congratulations to the following Homestead Air Reserve Base Airmen who were recently promoted:- Senior Master Sgt. Carmen Martinez, 482nd Operations Group- Senior Master Sgt. Brian Brown, 482nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron- Senior Master Sgt. Ivan Suazo, 482nd Maintenance Group- Tech. Sgt. Rietta

  • Enlisted quality force review board to be held in May

    A quality force review board will convene here May 5-16 to consider eligible Airmen for retention, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced recently.The board is one of several fiscal 2014 force management programs that have been or will be implemented to help achieve manpower and force

  • DOD announces recertification of imminent danger areas

    The Defense Department announced the recertification of some locations as imminent danger pay areas while discontinuing that designation for others. A periodic review and recertification was conducted for Imminent Danger Pay (IDP) purposes and was made in coordination with the joint staff, combatant

  • Tablets turn tables at HARB

    With modern technology come new and better ways to do tasks on the job. Maintainers have seen this firsthand with the implementation of iPads in their career fields. Due to the tablet's effectiveness, its use has really taken off.    The move to implement use of iPad tablets at Homestead Air

  • Volunteers bring holiday cheer to homeless shelter on Christmas

    Every year Airmen give back to the local community in various ways; food drives, donations, and charity events are only a few examples of ways to get involved and help others. For the second year in a row, members of Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., and their families visited the Chapman

  • Air Force's newest leader takes charge

    The Air Force's 23rd Secretary of the Air Force was formally sworn in, Dec. 20, in the Pentagon.Deborah James assumed the position of the Air Force's highest ranking leader, making her the second female in Air Force history to serve in the role. As James takes on her new duties, she said she knows

  • AF to mandate organizational, command climate on evaluation, feedback forms

    The Air Force will reinforce its performance evaluation system by requiring evaluators to assess what Airmen did to ensure a healthy organizational climate.Policy modifications, performance feedback, and officer and enlisted evaluation form changes will be implemented Jan. 1.This increased focus is

  • NORAD to track Santa's global journey

    On Christmas Eve, tens of thousands of children around the globe will gather around their family telephones and computers to track the path of Santa Claus as he makes his rounds delivering gifts on his sleigh led by tiny reindeer.On the receiving end of the emails, phone calls, mobile "NORAD Santa"

  • Reserve course teaches leaders how to raise professional Airmen

    Death by PowerPoint, standing up in the back of the class to stay awake, boring lectures...this is what Airmen might experience during military educational courses. That was not the case for the recent class attending the Noncommissioned Officer Leadership Development Course here Dec. 2-13.  For