• CSAF: Taking care of Airmen, future roadmap key to AF success

    Getting top performing Airmen promoted sooner, changing the enlisted performance report system, streamlining the enlisted and officer professional education programs and developing a roadmap for the Air Force for the next three decades were some of the topics discussed by the Air Force's top officer

  • AF announces change to reduction in force board schedule

    Air Force leaders announced a change Feb. 20 to the officer reduction in force board, or RIF, originally scheduled to convene June 16 at the Air Force Personnel Center. Air Force officials are adjusting the timing of the board until later in calendar year 2014 due to legal limitations governing RIF

  • Dining facility brings change and choices

    Little Rock Air Force Base Dining Facility will be increasing and decreasing the prices of select items effective Feb. 10. The price increases, attributed to the rise in cost of meat, dairy and produce, will have a slight impact on Airmen attending the dining facility."The prices were adjusted, both

  • Acts of bravery save 12-year old girl's life

    Alex Chapman and Elijah Johnson are typical 9-year- old boys. They play, they fight, get dirty and tend to get into trouble every once in a while. On the day after Christmas however, these average 9-year-olds became heroes when their actions initiated and aided in saving a 12 year-old girl from

  • Base Airmen, Army National Guard face off in intramural championship

    Airmen from various Little Rock AFB squadrons faced off with Army National Guardsmen at the intramural basketball championship Feb. 14, 2014, at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark.Before the game, both coaches seemed confident. Each team had to win more than 15 games to get to the championship.

  • Marines take the plunge for morale

    Approximately 40 Marines ran to the Little Rock Air Force Base lake and took a rather cold dip for their second annual Polar Bear Plunge Feb. 13.The two-mile, 10 a.m. run was led by their commanding officer Lt. Col. Jaime Gutierrez."The Polar Bear Plunge is something that we do to build morale in

  • CBRN Defense: From boots to mask

    The 19th Civil Engineer Squadron emergency management flight teaches eight CBRN defense classes every month to active-duty Airmen and mission-essential civilians. Knowing chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense is a vital part of being a warrior Airman. This potentially life-saving

  • Armory supports defenders

    Protecting the people, property and resources of the U.S. Air Force cannot be done by standing at an entry control point, providing roving patrols or posting on the flightline without properly functioning firearms and equipment which are maintained and issued out by the Airmen assigned to the 379th