AFMC Command News

  • Leaders highlight challenges during ESC change of command

    Challenges -- those that have been overcome in the past and new ones to be faced in the future -- formed the common thread at the Electronic Systems Center change of command ceremony Sept. 1, 2011, where Lt. Gen. Charles Davis took over as the new ESC commander.Gen. Donald Hoffman, Air Force

  • Flu shots to be available for civilians as well as military

    This year, flu vaccine will be made available to Air Force Materiel Command's civilian workforce in addition to active-duty personnel and their family members.Given the negative impact of the flu on workforce health and workplace productivity, AFMC Commander Gen. Donald Hoffman approved the purchase

  • Kirtland civilian earns energy savings award

    A 377th Civil Engineer Division member here recently earned a 2011 Federal Energy and Water Management award. Cliff Richardson led a campaign that has reduced energy consumption here by almost 10 percent, saving more than $22 million during the last decade. The award is part of a U.S. Department of

  • Hold the Line: Emotional Intelligence

    Emotional intelligence, fact-based leadership and fact-based followership are perhaps the most basic techniques that both leaders and followers can use to drive teamwork and superior mission accomplishment. I recently observed an exchange between aspiring senior non-commissioned officers and junior

  • My educational journey: 36-2618 reasons to get a CCAF

    Learning from my educational journey, I frequently challenge my peers to get their Community College of the Air Force degree. You see, I was an Airman who did not see relevance or worth in a CCAF; to be honest, I did not want one. I had enlisted in the Air Force for a real education and made the

  • Brooks' last Air Force unit completes inactivation ceremony

    The Air Force ended nearly 95 years of service, research and training at Brooks City-Base Aug. 31, 2011, when the last unit inactivated in a ceremony rich with military tradition. The commander of the Air Force Materiel Command and commander of the 311th Air Base Group at Brooks led the ceremony in

  • C-17 airdrop sets record, completes next step for Ares I program

    Though Edwards, along with the rest of the nation, bid farewell to the space shuttle mission, the 418th Flight Test Squadron and NASA took another step toward the future of America's space program -- and set a record doing it. An 85,000-pound jumbo drop test vehicle was extracted out of a C-17A at

  • 3 Tinker organizations unite to accomplish engine feat

    Personnel from the 848th Supply Chain Management Group, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center Aerospace Sustainment Directorate and 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group achieved the seemingly impossible in just 21 months.They increased the number of go-ready reserve level F100-229 engines from two to 41.

  • AFMC’s Year of the CCAF initiative on track to meet goals

    In a mid-year update on Air Force Materiel Command's Year of the Community College of the Air Force, Chief Master Sgt. Eric Jaren, AFMC command chief, said the campaign is yielding positive results and on track to meet or even exceed its goals.Launched in January, YoCCAF aims to increase the number

  • Air Force celebrates JSF arrival, rolls out nation's airpower future

    An official unveiling of the F-35A Lightning II joint strike fighter was labeled an "historic occasion" by Air Force officials hosting the ceremony Aug. 26, 2011, at the 33rd Fighter Wing here."This is indeed a new era," said Gen. Edward Rice, Air Education and Training Command commander and host of