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  • Football Frenzy at the Tavern

    The 66th Force Support Squadron is entering its 20th year of Football Frenzy. For each of the last 19 years, the Tavern offers club members who participate in the Football Frenzy promotion chances to win a trip to regular season games and the Super Bowl.Members need only to attend one Football

  • Emissions program eCARS begins Sept. 12

    Service members and Defense Department civilian employees who drive their personally-owned vehicle on base more than 60 times each year must begin participating in the Air Force Vehicle Self-Certification Program beginning this month.As all federal installations need to comply with the Clean Air

  • Day for Kids scheduled Sept. 17

    Hanscom Youth Programs will celebrate children during the Boys and Girls Club of America Day for Kids from Sept. 17 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Castle Park for all families on base. According to the Boys and Girls Club website, www.dayforkids.org, recognized nationally Sept. 20, Day for Kids is a

  • Hanscom community invited to Bedford Day Sept. 20

    The town of Bedford invites the Hanscom community to join them Sept. 20 in celebration of the 285th anniversary of its incorporation. The Bedford Day celebration will begin with a parade at 10:30 a.m. that proceeds up Great Road from Loomis Street toward Bedford High School on Mudge Way. Following

  • Air Force revamps AEF

    The Air Force will deploy Agile Combat Support Airmen under its redesigned air expeditionary force construct October 1. The primary purpose of the redesign was to look at ways to deploy more ACS Airmen with their units and standardize dwell times across the Air Force as much as possible to present a

  • Suicide prevention takes courage, communication, official says

    The Veterans Affairs Department has named September National Suicide Prevention Month, but the Defense Department continues its year-round, comprehensive, multi-pronged approach to address the issue of suicide in the military, a Pentagon official said recently.Army Lt. Gen. Michael S. Linnington,

  • Four officer AFSCs by year group will not meet October RIF board

    Line of the Air Force officers in four Air Force specialty codes by year group are no longer scheduled to meet the fiscal year 2015 Force Management Reduction in Force board slated for Oct. 1, 2014.Updated matrices have been posted to the myPers website. AFSCs by year group that will not meet the

  • CIPP: AFPC hosts Facebook live chat Sept. 9

    The Air Force Personnel Center will host a Facebook live chat Sept. 9 from 9 to 10 a.m. central time to answer questions about the Career Intermission Pilot Program, officials said today.Approved in the 2009 National Defense Authorization Act, the program allows selected high-performing active duty

  • AFOSI agent wins WIFLE award

    The commander of the Hanscom-based Office of Special Investigations Detachment 102 was honored in Washington D.C. late last month for, among other things, tackling the particularly insidious threat of green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan.Green-on-blue attacks refer to incidents where members of the

  • Suicide prevention more than a month-long campaign

    All Airmen have a responsibility that last much longer than a one-month campaign. This responsibility extends beyond ourselves and includes our work environment, our families, friends, fellow Airmen and our communities. While Suicide Prevention Month is observed across the United States in