• DEAMS begins pre-deployment activities at 4 AMC bases

    Senior Air Force leadership has approved the start of pre-deployment activities in preparation for implementing the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System at four Air Mobility Command bases. A final decision from DOD's Milestone Decision Authority to deploy the system on Oct. 1 at Dover

  • AETC Commander Tours, Praises the Rock

    The Commander and Command Chief of Air Education and Training Command toured Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., June 18 - 19, and talked to Airmen personally and in mass about contemporary issues and challenges in the Air Force.At the end of their visit Gen. Edward A. Rice Jr. and Chief Master Sgt.

  • Little Rock Family Housing converts to resident paid electricity

    Col. Brian Robinson, the 19th Airlift Wing commander, held a town hall meeting June 20 in Herc Hall to address Little Rock Air Force Base housing residents' questions concerning the conversion to resident paid electricity.The new system is designed to ultimately conserve energy and possibly save the

  • Could you be the next AMC Icon?

    Air Mobility Command is searching for the next AMC Icon. The AMC Icon program is loosely based around the hit TV program, American Idol. All AMC installations will conduct base level talent shows during July and August. Local contestants compete for $1,000 in cash prizes. The top finishing Air Force

  • Travel Feature: Bentonville, Ark.

    Although I wouldn't say I'm a cosmopolitan, I do think of myself as an avid traveler. From the time, as a 4-year-old lad, I frightened my mother by wandering out of my backyard in Penn Hills, Penn., in search of a local park, the idea of discovering new places, things and experiences on my own

  • Fly-away security teams stay vigilant for mission-critical assets

    Rifle at the ready, eyes watchful and wary, sweat beads form on the brow and trickle down the chin, exhaust fumes and gritty sand fill the nose, words can barely be heard over the whine of engines, yet the airmen of the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron's Fly-Away Security Teams maintain

  • Couponing makes cents

    The art of couponing has expanded in the last few years from just clipping one or two coupons out of the Sunday paper to coupon clubs being formed, television shows being produced and shoppers actually making money when they purchase groceries.Here at the Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., fellow

  • Commentary: What I Respect and Admire About Airmen

    It seems to me that we spend a lot of time in our wing talking about mentoring. If we're spending as much time mentoring as we are talking about it, then we must be doing one awesome job. I have a feeling that isn't necessarily so. As a good mentor, we have a responsibility to our subordinates to