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The coronavirus outbreak in India is horrific. The worst-case scenarios we read about from Italy 13 months ago, and were warned of in the United States last year, have come to fruition on the subcontinent. The U.S. government can help — and ought to help.

Travis retiree office seeks volunteers By Travis Air Force Base Retiree Activities Office TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — The Retiree Activities Office at the base is actively seeking people to staff its volunteer desks. The Travis Retiree Activities Office is typically open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding weekends, federal holidays and Air Mobility Command family days. There are two, three-hour shifts available: 9 a.m. to noon and noon to 3 p.m. The office serves as retirees�...

The 19th Airlift Wing opened its new “Herk Werks” innovation lab during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, April 16.The newly completed Herk Werks space is now available to Team Little Rock Airmen, and is intended for Airmen who have an innovative idea to make,

By Staff Sgt. Timmethy James, Air Force TV / Published April 23, 2021 FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) -- Today’s look Around the Air Force highlights acting Secretary of the Air Force John P. Roth and his visit to Airmen working at a COVID-19 vaccination facility, a project that ramps up the F-35’s lethality and survivability, and the Rated Preparatory Program is taking applications from active duty officers and enlisted interested in aviation. (Hosted by Tech. Sgt. Sha...

As the COVID-19 pandemic erupted last spring, entire swaths of society shut down or went remote. But the vast majority of the militarys missions, including air transportation, basic training and ships at sea, couldnt be done through Zoom calls. The services had to improvise and adapt to keep operations going while holding the disease at bay -- and they were largely successful. In the process, leaders said, the military has relearned old skills for operating in compromised environments that coul...

10 Getting communications up and running, at home and abroad, is the number one priority for the 51st Combat Communications Squadron at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. These Airmen support the warfighter by providing a wide range of critical communication assets, such as phones, radios, internet and satellite services. “We go where nothing is established,” said Master Sgt. Andrew Pfluger, 51st CBCS Cyber Transport section chief. “We work off of generators and out of tent...

The vaccination facility, which is designed to administer 3,000 shots a day (though it hit 5,636 shots in a single day earlier this month), is under the control of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state of Florida. However, a staff of 139,

28 TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The Disaster Emergency Medical Operations Support Team tested more than 250 Airmen for COVID-19 prior to their departure to a deployed location April 15, 2021, here. The Department of Defense added new guidelines for deploying service members during the pandemic, and the DoD is making every effort to keep COVID-19 out of deployable locations. Following a two-week restriction of movement, Airmen deploying are required to get tested for COVID-...

On March 6, 2020, the Department of Defense Instruction 5200.48, Controlled Unclassified Information, was published. This instruction served as initial DoD guidance for the implementation of the CUI program and establishment of the DoD CUI Registry. Department of the Air Force personnel were already well versed with the necessity of protecting mission-critical unclassified information, but the release of the DoDI brought about additional responsibilities, procedures and dissemination controls,...

The Military Aviation Museum in Pungo, Virginia has begun what promises to be a fascinating series of webinars covering a variety of subjects varying from the WWII era aircraft in their collection, to significant aircraft elsewhere and aviation-related historical events. These online seminars are bound to be fascinating for everyone interested in historical military aviation and will provide viewers with an in-depth examination of each topic at hand. The webinar series will begin with a close l...