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  • Keeping network secure is everyone's responsibility

    This February, Schriever will undergo its second U.S. Cyber Command-directed Command Cyber Readiness Inspection. The 50th Space Communications Squadron is determined to improve the base's showing this year."Network security is everyone's responsibility," said Lt. Col. David Case, 50 SCS commander,

  • DoD Releases 2015 Military Pay and Compensation Rates

    Today, the Department of Defense announced the 2015 military pay and compensation rates for service members, with most service members receiving a one percent increase in basic pay.The new rates for basic pay, basic allowance for housing, basic allowance for subsistence, and the cost of living

  • ARPC announces colonel promotions

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials here announced results for the 2014 Air Force Reserve Line and Nonline Colonel Promotion Selection Boards today.The selection boards convened at the center Oct. 6, 2014 to determine those officers qualified to assume the next higher grade. Board members

  • Panther of the Week: Capt. Chris Barnes

    Name: Capt Chris Barnes, 8th Space Warning Squadron deputy flight commander and 2nd Space Warning Squadron assistant director of operations-Length of Service: 14 years-Hometown: Roscoe, Illinois-Hobbies: Running, reading, spending time with family-Unique fact:  Barnes spent half his enlisted career

  • Air Force Fitness Management System slated for upgrade

    Active-duty, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard officers and enlisted members who want to maintain copies of their pre-July 2010 fitness records need to access the Air Force Fitness Management System (AFFMS) and save or print their records by Dec. 30, Air Force Personnel Center officials said

  • Schriever reminds commuters of Snow Call procedures

    With winter weather looming, Schriever personnel need to know how to receive information about road conditions and base closures or delays.The following is a reminder of the Snow Call process and procedures:Snow Call proceduresThere are a variety of ways to find out current road conditions or snow

  • Fire department issues holiday fire safety tips

    CHRISTMAS TREE SAFETY Each year, fire departments respond to an average of 210 structure fires caused by Christmas trees. Carefully decorating Christmas trees can help make your holidays safer and avoid the need for such a response. Picking the tree · If you have an artificial tree, be sure it is

  • Avoiding the catastrophe – how having a wingman can save you from yourself

    It was a sick feeling.  I had opened a daily news summary email and recognized a former co-worker's name in a not-good news story.  Reading through the article, I was saddened to learn this person had been relieved of duty for unprofessional conduct.  "Damn," I thought, "there goes another one." 

  • Gen. Hyten: Future of AF is air, space, cyberspace integration

    The commander of Air Force Space Command talked about the fundamental relationship between space operations and everyday life - not only for the military, but for the American people - during a breakfast at the Capitol Hill Club, Dec. 5.Gen. John E. Hyten, the AFSPC commander, explained the

  • 50 SW garners SCA for SVN-69

    Col. Dennis Bythewood, 50th Operations Group commander, presented a ceremonial key for the eighth GPS Block IIF satellite (SVN-69) to Lt. Col. Todd Benson, 2nd Space Operations Squadron commander, and Lt. Col. Karen Slocum, 19th Space Operations Squadron director of operations, Nov. 25 at Schriever