AFMC Command News

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Yong McComb from the Vanwey Dining Facility

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Yong McComb from the Vanwey Dining FacilityYong McComb, the lead senior cook at the Vanwey Dining Facility, has worked at Tinker Air Force Base for almost 10 years.Her duties at the Vanwey include making sure the cooks are following correct recipes and procedures, baking,

  • PMRT Contributes to COVID-19 Relief Efforts

    The dominating story of 2020 is the devastating global effects of COVID-19. While the world searches for remedies to this pandemic, several members of the BES team are doing their part in the fight against this virus.Recently, we spoke with James McCormack of Project Management Resources Tools

  • COVID-19 military ID card processes

    Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019, the Department of Defense has taken actions to reduce visits to DoD identification card offices for basic actions such as renewal of expiring credentials, reissuing of dependents or retiree ID cards, and reissuing of an ID or common access cards for name or rank

  • SFS updates gate entry procedures

    Defenders from the 66th Security Forces Squadron at Hanscom Air Force Base have adjusted the installation entry and visitor access procedures as a result of the COVID-19 response and the installation’s current Health Protection condition.

  • 2020 CNS/ATM Working Group update

    Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Communications, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management Center of Excellence has canceled its in-person 2020 CNS/ATM Working Group.

  • Test squadron uses simulators to support high-priority F-35 test missions

    As the Air Force Test Center’s 412th Test Wing resumed mission-essential flight testing, the 772nd Test Squadron’s (772 TS) modeling and simulation (Sim) engineers and technicians restarted manned cockpit simulation operations to support flight test mission rehearsals at Edwards Air Force Base,

  • Edwards AFB Top 3 spearheads DeCA agent shopping service

    The 412th Test Wing community launched a commissary shopping service at Edwards Air Force Base, California, to support those who are high risk, quarantined, isolated and unable to shop for themselves, or Team Edwards deployed families impacted due to COVID-19, April 20.

  • Temporary certificate updates on soon to expire CACs now authorized

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – To ensure continuity of operations during COVID-19, the Department of Defense has enabled a temporary capability to allow Common Access Card cardholders to update their certificates for continued use.CACs that expired on or after April 16, 2020, and are within

  • Robins Frontlines: Maurice Rogers

    Maurice Rogers, Robins Air Force Base Commissary, Produce Department associate, stocks shopping shelves with fresh produce amidst the fight against COVID-19.The commissary carries a wide variety of grocery items as well as fresh deli sandwiches, rotisserie chicken, sushi, baked goods and cakes

  • Amid COVID-19 pandemic, AFRL technology protects medical facilities

    ROME, N.Y. – The Department of Defense is deploying Counter-Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-sUAS) developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate to military medical facilities in support of the medical response to COVID-19, including the hospital ships USNS Mercy and USNS