AFMC Command News

  • Commentary: Strong leadership will always hold the line

    In my experience, effective leaders demonstrate a team approach without favoritism toward anyone. Good leaders are good listeners, who provide clear and concise direction on decision-making, articulate their message well and keep emotions out of the decision process. Ineffective leaders demonstrate

  • Feature: Shooting survivor, not a victim

    "Control your breathing, lie still, play dead." During the most devastating moment of her life Staff Sgt. Deondra Parks couldn't believe her brain behaved so rationally. "So this is what a massacre is like?" she asked herself as a madman with a shotgun wreaked havoc around her.Sergeant Parks, a 72nd

  • Human Performance Wing wins Air Force Outstanding Unit Award

    The 711th Human Performance Wing, including its three mission units, won the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for exceptionally meritorious service of national and international significance from March 25, 2008, to March 24, 2010.The wing was recognized for a number of accomplishments, including

  • Acquisition pros must be fiscal stewards, commander says

    Emphasizing that America's number-one national security challenge may well be our fiscal health as a nation, the commander of Air Force Materiel Command opened the 2011 Defense Acquisition University Acquisition Insight Conference with a bracing observation."We're on an unsustainable path," Gen.

  • AFMC munitions squadrons to transfer to Global Strike Command

    The Air Force announced today plans to transfer munitions squadrons responsible for nuclear mission support from Air Force Materiel Command to Air Force Global Strike Command in the next 12 months, as another step in continuing to strengthen the nuclear enterprise.Under a previous move, these

  • Greening Tinker: Earth Month priorities

    April 22 is Earth Day and the remaining 29 days in the month are designated "Earth Month," a time aimed to encourage understanding and appreciation for the Earth's native surroundings. At Tinker, officials said Earth Month and Day are a time to practice conservation and plan for the future."When

  • Air Force Marathon seeks 2,000 volunteers

    More than 2,000 volunteers are needed to help host the 15th annual Air Force Marathon Sept. 17, 2011, in Dayton, Ohio, according to event officials.Volunteer registration opens May 1."We're very excited about the changes we've made to the volunteer website this year," said Jeanette Monaghan, the

  • AFMC Club Survey offers chance to win $100

    Air Force Materiel Command Services invites everyone in the command to participate in the first comprehensive AFMC Club Survey, available online May 1 through May 31, 2011.Survey participants from each AFMC base will be eligible to win $100 in Force Support Squadron bucks just for completing the

  • Robins center set to receive first PDM C-130J

    C-130 maintenance at Robins will enter a new era April 26, 2011, with the arrival here of the first C-130J for depot maintenance. The C-130J is the only model currently in production and represents significant aviation history as the C-130 -- with more than 50 years of service -- has the longest

  • Greening Tinker: Base holds creek clean-up

    Teaching man to fish can feed him for a lifetime and so can caring for the water those fish live in. In support of Tinker's Earth Month activities, volunteers from civil engineering fanned out April 7 and 8, 2011, along base waterways armed with knowledge and heavy duty trash bags to care for the

  • AFMC surveys workforce to gauge interest in early retirement, separation

    Air Force Materiel Command will survey its civilian workforce beginning May 1, 2011, to determine how many individuals would be interested in applying for a fiscal year 2011/12 VERA/VSIP incentive program. VERA/VSIP stands for Voluntary Early Retirement Authority/Voluntary Separation Incentive

  • Flex fuel use on the rise at Robins

    To help Robins meet federal and Air Force energy mandates, "flex fuels" are increasingly being used in day-to-day operations here. In fact, the 78th Logistics Readiness Squadron has added more than 100 general-purpose flex fuel transports to the installation's fleet since fiscal year 2000. "By

  • Robins home to new green hangar facility

    A Marine hangar here in March became the first facility at Robins certified under a new and important energy engineering standard. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, recognizes new construction and renovations which incorporate green building concepts into their design, building