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  • Coping with stress through healthy thinking

    Stress. Even the mention of the word can increase anxiety for some. Everyone deals with stress differently, but how a person copes with daily stressors can have great impacts on their quality of life and overall health.Stress is actually the body's response to any demand, including change. According

  • Nature's hazards: Mosquito-borne diseases

    Mosquito bites can be annoying, but they can also cause serious viral diseases, such as Zika, West Nile, Chikungunya and Dengue. If an infected mosquito bites a bird or mammal, including humans, it can transmit the illness to them.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, West

  • AFMC's new command chief focused on Airmen and their families

    Family and fellow Airmen have been the keys to success in Chief Master Sgt. Jason France's Air Force career of 26 years and counting. As the new command chief of Air Force Materiel Command, France plans to keep them a priority."I wouldn't be where I am today without the support of my family and the

  • Fund seeks innovative solutions

    A team in the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is searching far and wide for innovative, cost-effective solutions to critical national technology concerns.The Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) program selects promising new technologies that can be quickly inserted into military systems, space

  • Air Force increases access to behavioral health care

    Nearly half of people with a treatable behavioral health disorder do not seek help from behavioral health professionals, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. However, 80 percent of this population does visit a primary care manager at least once a year. The Air Force

  • June is National Safety Month

    The Air Force Safety Center and 66th Air Base Group join the National Safety Council in highlighting June as National Safety Month.According to the NSC, the goal for National Safety Month is to raise awareness of what it takes to stay "Safe For Life," and focuses on reducing the leading causes of

  • Airman aims high through astronaut program

    An Life Cycle Management Center program manager is one step closer to being selected to the NASA astronaut program following the Air Force's Astronaut Nomination Board results earlier this spring.Maj. Angela K. Motlagh, who works in the Battle Management Directorate here, was inspired to apply for

  • Hanscom committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions

    The 66th Logistics Readiness Squadron recently unveiled Hanscom's first plug-in electric hybrid vehicle and charging station here.The vehicle, a Ford Fusion Energi sedan, complies with President Barack Obama's federal government directive to become more energy efficient with the Department of