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  • Air Force offers retention bonus to contracting officers

    Select Air Force contracting officers are eligible to receive a retention bonus as part of the service's fiscal year 2010 Critical Skills Retention Bonus Program. Eligible officers will receive $20,000 per year if they sign a four-year CSRB agreement. This is the second year a retention bonus has

  • Officials extend VSP, reduce separation pay

    Air Force officials are extending the application period for eligible officers to apply for voluntary separation pay, or VSP, through July 31 but are lowering the multiplier to one and a half times the authorized separation pay effective July 1."The window to apply for two times separation pay is

  • Commentary: What I Learned about the big picture in 48-hours

    As I woke up early this past Friday morning, my thoughts were consumed with a number of 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron challenges that had filled the past week. Try as I might, I couldn't stop thinking about them. It was 3:30 a.m., and I wasn't going to get back to sleep. I instead decided to

  • Tops in Blue scheduled to perform at RAF Lakenheath

    The U.S. Air Force's Tops in Blue is offering a free night of family entertainment in hangar 7 at 7 p.m., June 30.This year, Tops in Blue continues its long-standing tradition of "family entertaining family" by showing us what has made Tops in Blue a must-see event every year for the last 57 years.

  • Allied troops banter World Cup results

    In training missions and real-world operations, NATO allies work together seamlessly, executing their orders with unwavering precision.Helping continue worldly freedom and stability is the fact that the Alliance persists to work as one team.However, when it comes to sports, all bets are off - and

  • Vuvuzela controversially loud disturbance to World Cup

    I can vividly imagine a Team USA sweeper bellowing "pass to the touchline - pass to the touchline," to his midfielder but his shouts overshadowed by the annoying sounds of the controversially loud vuvuzelas from the stadium seats above.Timeout: Blowing my own whistle on that play, I can say that I

  • Luncheon shows appreciation for Key Spouses

    Key Spouses help the mission by making sure families of deployed servicemembers are taken care of at home station. RAF Mildenhall's leaders took time out recently to show their appreciation for the valuable services the Key Spouses perform.Click here for video coverage.