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  • TRICARE changes coming soon

    Falls Church, Va. -- Changes are coming to your TRICARE benefit beginning January 1, 2018. These changes will give you more benefit choices, improving your access to care and simplifying cost shares. The best way to prepare is to update your information in DEERS, sign up for TRICARE benefit updates,

  • Accepting the challenge

    Airman 1st Class Colby Morin, a member of the 66th Security Forces Squadron, volunteered to attend the U.S. Marine Corps’ Lance Corporal Seminar during a deployment to Southeast Asia.

  • The cost of drunk driving

    When I first came to work here in 2011, it was after a long and fulfilling career as a private sector psychotherapist. I had clients with problems everyone recognized: depression, anxiety, relationship problems, financial stress and children acting out. I felt what I was doing was important, and it

  • Supercomputing the weather with ‘Thor’

    Thor models global weather patterns and provides individual air bases and army units with specific forecasts for areas as small as 17 square kilometers. The computer system is comprised of nearly 1,000 individual blade servers. Thor’s increased capacity allows weather Airmen at Offutt to generate

  • Hanscom personnel selected for staff sergeant

    The Air Force has selected 14,181 senior airmen, including 27 at Hanscom, for promotion to staff sergeant out of 32,006 eligible for a selection rate of 44.31 percent in the 17E5 promotion cycle.

  • AF seeks 69th Annual Arthur S. Flemming Award nominations

    Air Force officials are seeking nominations for the 69th Annual Arthur S. Flemming Award. The award, sponsored by George Washington University and the Arthur S. Flemming Awards Commission, honors outstanding federal employees who have made significant and extraordinary contributions to the federal

  • New command chief set to lead

    Chief Master Sergeant Henry L. Hayes, Jr., took responsibility as the installation’s command chief master sergeant during an informal ceremony at the 66th Air Base Group Commander’s Call at the base theater Aug. 15.