Sept. 23, 2013 AFSA celebrates 66th Air Force birthday at Lancaster vet home By Members of the Air Force Sergeants Association Chapter 1328 hosted a barbeque lunch at the Lancaster Veterans Home of California Sept. 18, in honor of the 66th U.S. Air Force birthday. AFSA provided burgers, hotdogs and a birthday cake. "I think the Air Force birthday is important because it's a
Sept. 17, 2013 Complete yard and landscape maintenance offered to Edwards residents Corvias Military Living has teamed with Mainscape Inc. to provide residents with high-quality commercial lawn care service, giving on-base families more time to spend doing what they enjoy. The service includes mowing, edging, trimming, weeding, and flowerbed maintenance. Mainscape, Inc. will
Sept. 17, 2013 TPS students test injection-jamming software on F-16 When it comes to timing, navigation, targeting, and weapons systems, GPS has become an integral part of the daily operations of the U.S. Air Force. But what happens when GPS becomes denied, degraded, or unavailable? It's an important question, and increasingly relevant as dependence on GPS
Sept. 16, 2013 Outdoor Recreation offers 'something for everyone' Outdoor Recreation director Josh Soldan says that ODR is a "one-stop shop" for recreational activities."We have 23 different areas that fall under Outdoor Rec. including paintball, stables, pools, disc golf, adventure programs, equipment rentals and the lemon lot," said Soldan. "We have something
Sept. 10, 2013 Edwards employee volunteers to teach children how to breed, raise rabbits Laura Blank spends her days working for the Air Force Test Center as a management analyst, but her nights are spent on volunteer work. During the Antelope Valley Fair and Alfalfa Festival last month she served as the manager for the Small Animal Barn logging more than 400 hours of volunteer
Sept. 10, 2013 Timing is everything: Ammo specialists unearth time capsule In front of the 412th Maintenance Squadron Munitions Flight storage area there sits a plaque atop a desert-clad landscape with static bomb displays that reads:Here lies the remains and remnants of past "Ammo Troops."Honor with dignity and respect."IYAAYAS."Sealed: 24 Feb 1993 - 1313 HrsOpen: 13 Sept
Sept. 6, 2013 Base housing residents to pay Corvias automatically with BAH - Take home pay for Airmen will not change Edwards AFB base residents will soon see a change on their Leave and Earnings Statement (LES) due to housing privatization. However, each Airman's monthly take-home pay will remain the same. Prior to privatization, base housing residents forfeited their BAH in exchange for living in
Sept. 6, 2013 Corvias Military Living launches enhanced website for residents Corvias Military Living has launched an enhanced version of its website to coincide with the transition to privatized housing at Edwards AFB. The website, airforce.corviasmilitaryliving.com/edwards contains information for both current and future residents."We are really excited to launch the
Sept. 4, 2013 Submitting maintenance requests for on base housing Beginning Sept. 1, Corvias Military Living will begin providing maintenance services to Edwards on-base housing residents. Corvias offers residents several convenient ways to submit maintenance service requests."Our goal is to make submitting a service request a simple process for Edwards
Sept. 4, 2013 Corvias Military Living to provide new services The to-do lists of Edwards on-base residents will soon be shorter. Corvias Military Living will provide new services aimed at making life easier for families beginning in September.Residents will no longer need to mow their grass beginning September 1. Instead, Corvias's contractor, Mainscape, Inc.