TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — From my experience, my life has changed significantly in both the military and civilian life since the repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” which was the military’s ban on gays and lesbians serving openly.I commissioned into the U.S. Air Force in ...

Team AFMC — Just over a year ago, we published the 2016 AFMC Strategic Plan to outline how we would support the Air Force Strategy. We had a number of successes under this plan; however, by the end of 2016, it became clear there were opportunities for us to do better. We amended our strategy ...

WASHINGTON — Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright was a self-proclaimed undisciplined Airman during his first enlistment in the early 1990s…that is until his mentor stepped in and provided the leadership he needed to set him on the right path.Though that intervention was more ...

We have all noticed there have been some changes made to our entry control gates. Part of the newly constructed gates are new Anti-Vehicle Deterrent System Barriers, which are installed at all of the base entry control gates. If you are not familiar with them, they are flush with the roadway ...

KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. — I’m a child of the 80s, through and through.I still have an old Nintendo I used to play on, with games like Metroid and Super Mario Bros. sitting on my shelf. I have a Walkman cassette player and headphones, with an actual mix tape I painstakingly recorded. I ...

Lt. Gen. Lee K. Levy II visited the Standard-Examiner to meet Monday with the newspaper’s editorial board.Levy commands the Air Force Sustainment Center, Air Force Materiel Command, which is headquartered at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.The center includes three air logistics complexes, ...