• DoD launches personalized quit tobacco training

    The U.S. Department of Defense has announced the launch of Train2Quit, an innovative Web-based tobacco cessation training specifically designed for military personnel and families.Train2Quit is a step-by-step process with proven methods and interactive activities and tools to help tobacco users quit

  • Air Force seeks officers for defense research program

    The Air Force is soliciting officer nominations through June 17 for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Service Chiefs Program beginning in September.According to Capt. Breanne Roeckers, the Air Force Personnel Center's officer developmental education chief, the DARPA SCP will help

  • Air Force fitness program revisions begin July 1

    In about a month, Airmen across the globe will begin testing against new fitness assessment standards. These standards were deemed necessary by senior Air Force leaders to ensure a fitter and healthier fighting force. Changes include bi-annual testing, minimum requirements within testing components

  • Portal offers new secure network tool similar to Facebook

    Air Force Portal Web designers are keeping up with the Web 2.0 era by offering portal users a new means to engage in professional communications in a secure social media environment.After initial tests among some 7,000 users in the Air Force's logistics community, the portal's newly developed

  • Water safety learned the hard way

    On Nov. 1, 2008, I was enjoying an unseasonably warm day at the Heber Springs., Ark., reservoir with my family and friends. The water temp was still in the upper 70s, so it was a great day to be on the lake. We started the day with some boating on the pontoon boat, with our friends riding on their

  • Remember safety during the Critical Days of Summer

    With summer just around the corner, it's the time of the year when many of us will be going on vacation, playing sports and enjoying the great outdoors. It's also the time for the Critical Days of Summer safety campaign - Memorial Day weekend, May 28th, through Labor Day weekend, Sept. 6th. We, our

  • Law Day 2010: Law in the 21st Century

    Law Day is a national day set aside to celebrate the rule of law and to underscore how the legal process has contributed to the freedoms that all Americans share today. It began in 1957, when the American Bar Association President Charles S. Rhyne, a Washington, D.C. attorney, envisioned a special