AFMC Command News

  • SAPR team earns national recognition

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Demonstrating their skilled and committed service to Airmen, the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Sexual Assault Prevention and Response team won the 2021 Department of the Air Force Exceptional SAPR Team award.The team demonstrated its dedication to providing

  • Commentary: Be the change

    In light of Mental Health Awareness Month, Felisha Garcia, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, gives her insight on how everyone can "be the change" when it comes to improving mental health.

  • Community Action Team champions AFMC Airmen needs

    The job of identifying, assessing and advocating for the needs of the big ‘A’ Airmen of the Air Force Materiel Command primarily falls to one group, the Community Action Team, or CAT. The CAT is a senior-leader-driven working group designed to prioritize community issues involving resilience and

  • AFMC Connect May focus: Contribute

    A healthy workplace is one in which everyone collaborates to achieve mission goals and feels compelled to contribute, which is the focus topic for AFMC Connect for May 2021. It is important for each individual Airman to contribute to a unit’s mission and to have that contribution recognized. Each

  • Air Force Employee Assistance Program widens resource umbrella

    The variety of resources available to Air Force EAP users will increase with the revamping of the program's coaching and financial services, which go live May 1.The EAP is expanding the level of support to members by encompassing “positive” engagements like lifestyle coaching, where participants can

  • FYSA: Game On!

    Game On! For your situational awareness, esports is more than fun and games. Through Air Force Gaming, Airmen now promote resilience through positive, virtual connection, inclusion and teamwork, all on their favorite platforms. Join us in the quest to explore the innovative grassroots initiative,

  • A child’s resilient battle for life

    As 88th Air Base Wing command chief, Chief Master Sgt. Jason Shaffer doesn’t just talk about resilience. He and his family have battled through it.Their story starts in 2014 when his wife, Tawny, gave birth to daughter Teagan in Clovis, New Mexico, while Jason was deployed to Afghanistan. As Teagan

  • AFICC delivers innovative VR suicide prevention training to save lives

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – With a rise in suicides across the service, the Air Force Installation Contracting Center is helping leaders fast-track a pilot program at Air Mobility Command to help save lives.The virtual reality suicide training being tested at Scott AFB, Illinois, and

  • AFMC Connect March focus: Belonging

    Throughout 2021, Airmen and leaders have glimpsed the commitment of AFMC to cultivating a trusting environment where Airmen are valued for their contributions to the mission. Members have a sense of belonging and feel they are a part of something important.