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  • Local towns to host annual Patriots' Day events

    Members of Team Hanscom can participate in annual Patriots' Day celebrations scheduled to take place in local towns throughout the month of April.Patriots' Day commemorates the opening battle of the American Revolution in 1775. The 2016 holiday will be officially observed April 18, but events will

  • Firefighters respond to construction fire

    Firefighters from the base and from some nearby communities responded to a fire this morning inside a new middle school, which is under construction here. The school is currently unoccupied, except by construction workers. There are no reports of injury.The fire was successfully extinguished early

  • Air Force announces new AFMC command chief

    Air Force officials announced March 24, 2016, the assignment of Chief Master Sgt. Jason L. France as the command chief sergeant of Air Force Materiel Command. He is currently the command chief master sergeant of the Air Force Sustainment Center at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The command's

  • Transitioning from a performance- to contribution-based pay system in AcqDemo

    Training is in full swing for some 13,000 Air Force Materiel Command personnel scheduled to convert to the DoD Civilian Acquisition Workforce Demonstration Project (AcqDemo) pay system in June 2016.During the training, employees are learning about the key differences in the performance management

  • Civilians authorized participation in fitness, wellness programs

    Members of the Department of Defense civilian workforce here are able to participate in the Air Force Materiel Command fitness and wellness initiative that permits up to three hours each week of voluntary physical fitness or participation in wellness programs.Interested employees must first initiate

  • AFSVA gets ready for 2016 youth camps

    Hanscom teenagers looking to cure those summertime blues will have various camps to choose from this year, thanks to central funding from the Air Force Services Activity, also known as AFSVA.Teen family members of active-duty Airmen; retired Airmen; Air Force civilian employees; Air National Guard;

  • 66 MDS encourages secure messaging use

    Patients seen by the 66th Medical Squadron here are able to request and provide information to their health care team through a patient portal called MiCare Secure Messaging.Since the Air Force Medical Service first introduced it in 2012, MiCare has allowed for a more secure exchange of health

  • Hanscom Airmen and local Girl Scouts continue Cookies for a Cause tradition

    Hanscom volunteers and the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts gathered here March 19 to distribute approximately 18,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to six military and veteran organizations.An estimated 450 Girl Scouts and their families, along with  more than 20 military and civilian volunteers

  • AFMC executive director reflects on career start, successes after 34 years

    What began as uncertainty toward the possibility of an Air Force career transformed into a 34-year commitment for Air Force Materiel Command Executive Director Michael A. Gill, who retires April 1 after spending three years in the command's top civilian post."We all talk about retirement, but you

  • Fitness assessment schedule in effect April 1

    The 66th Force Support Squadron Fitness Assessment Cell has issued guidance on how fitness assessments will be conducted during spring, summer, and fall weather conditions here, in accordance with Air Force Instruction 36-2905.Like during the winter months, the weather can be unpredictable in New