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Feb. 21, 2020
Building Healthy Relationships: Helping agencies offer ways to recognize, combat dating violence

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in three teens in the U.S. will experience physical, sexual or emotional abuse by someone they are in a relationship with before they reach adulthood, and two-thirds of them never tell anyone.
Feb. 21, 2020
STORMWATER STRAIGHT TALK: Put a lid on it!

Uncovered dumpsters, roll-offs, and hoppers are exposed to precipitation from rain events. Rain water can wash contaminants out of a waste container and into the stormwater collection system. The stormwater system then discharges, untreated, directly to local streams, lakes and rivers.
Feb. 20, 2020
Setting up for success: Skillbridge helps transition to civilian workforce

Skillbridge helps make the future less uncertain for military members separating from the service. The program is an opportunity for service members to gain valuable civilian work experience through specific industry training, apprenticeships, on-the-job training or internships during the last 180
Feb. 19, 2020
DoD to restructure 50 hospitals, clinics to improve readiness

The Department of Defense announced, Feb. 19, plans to restructure 50 military hospitals and clinics to better support wartime readiness of military personnel and to improve clinical training for medical forces who deploy in support of combat operations around the world.
Feb. 14, 2020
Mobile app supports new hire process

A new mobile application feature aims to make the on-boarding process and first days of work easier for civilian new hires across the Air Force Materiel Command. The “Newcomers” feature on the AFMC instance of the Air Force Connect mobile application provides new employees with step-by-step
Feb. 11, 2020
Team MXS Facilitates First-Ever Total Force Integrated Resilience Week

Team MXS crafted a Resiliency Week in December 2019, where a team of six Master Resilience Trainers and Integrated Resilience Training Assistants, took on the important task of selecting course material, organizing, and conducting a total of 12 classes for 101 Active Duty and Air National Guardsmen
Feb. 10, 2020
Ready to Respond: 78th SFS member takes prompt action to save man’s life

78th Security Forces Squadron Airman saves a man from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot.
Feb. 5, 2020
AFMC virtual town hall updates command, focuses on readiness

The theme of readiness wove throughout the Air Force Materiel Command Virtual Town Hall, Feb. 3. Resiliency, fitness, the AFMC We Need, Space Force and more among the topics of focus during the hour-long event. Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr., AFMC commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Stan Cadell, AFMC senior
Jan. 29, 2020
573rd CMXS keeps aircraft parts in supply at Robins, worldwide to keep mission in air

Mechanics, machinists, plastic workers and more make up the more than 200-member team responsible for supporting weapon systems and manufacturing of parts on the F-15, C-5, C-17 and C-130 aircraft. Additionally, the squadron supports the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft
Jan. 29, 2020
Combatting hypoxia: Robins flight prepares aircrews to recognize signs

At Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, the Aerospace and Operational Physiology Training Flight with the 461st Operations Support Squadron trains aircrew members on the dangers of hypoxia in a safe environment using a Reduced Oxygen Breathing Device.