AFMC Command News

  • Special leave accrual for service members

    Today, Matthew Donovan, under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, signed a department-wide authorization for service members to accrue and retain an additional leave balance of up to 120 days. The department's actions to stem the spread of COVID-19 has significantly limited the ability

  • Around the Air Force: A New Normal and A Message to Parents

    Today's look Around the Air Force features Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein addressing Air Force parents about COVID-19 concerns and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright begins a weekly video series, “The New Normal.”

  • AFIMSC geospatial tools help commanders manage COVID-19 risk

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – An innovative solution by the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center’s Detachment 4 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, is giving commanders from U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa the ability to accurately assess operational risk and

  • AFSC Spotlight: Meet Randall Looke

    AFSC Spotlight: Meet Randall LookeRandall Looke is the chief of the Air Force Sustainment Center Contracting Directorate’s Operational Contracting Branch, which is responsible for contracting support for the 72nd Air Base Wing and all of Tinker’s tenant units. Since Looke took over as branch chief,

  • Reserve nurses mobilize to support COVID-19 response

    Two Air Force Reservist nurses with the 507th Medical Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base mobilized and departed for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, April 13 and 15, 2020, to provide medical treatment to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Children at Hill's Youth Center give back by crafting face masks

    For the health and safety of those around us, face coverings have become a hot commodity. However, supply and demand makes has made them a little hard to come by lately. That’s why some children at the center have taken on the task of creating masks for themselves and for care givers at Hill AFB’s

  • AFSC Spotlight: Meet Kait Kampmeyer

    AFSC Spotlight: Meet Kait KampmeyerKait Kampmeyer, a child and youth program assistant at Child Development Center West, has worked at Tinker for a little over a year. She recently did an experiment called “Glitter Germs” with the children in her classroom to show them how important it is to wash

  • AFSC Spotlight: Meet Joey Chapa

    AFSC Spotlight: Meet Joey Chapa Joey Chapa, a metallizing equipment operator in the 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group, is one of the key operators in the shop responsible for the thermal spraying of vital propulsion components. He is following in the footsteps of his parents, who both retired from

  • 75th OSS keeps Hill AFB flying during COVID-19

    While the “new normal” for some of the base’s workforce includes social distancing and teleworking due to COVID-19, the 75th Operations Support Squadron is making it happen while keeping Hill Air Force Base flying.

  • 552nd Air Control Networks Squadron gives back during COVID-19

    “When the United States began to be impacted by Coronavirus, we knew there must be something we can do to help,” said Airman 1st Class Stephen Criss, a software tester for the 552nd Air Control Networks Squadron.In response to COVID-19, the 552nd ACNS took their own initiative to hand sew more than

  • AFSC Spotlight: Meet Chaplain Sam Bridges

    AFSC Spotlight: Meet Chaplain Sam BridgesChaplain Sam Bridges, originally from Lufkin, Texas, has served in the U.S. Air Force for 31 years. In his free time, he likes gardening, landscaping and watching sports, especially baseball, with his wife. The main duties of the chaplain corps are to ensure

  • AFSC Spotlight: Meet Maj. Joseph Jones

    AFSC Spotlight: Meet Maj. Joseph JonesMaj. Joseph Jones, a certified physician's assistant with the 72nd Medical Operations Readiness Squadron and a team lead for the sick call triage and treatment team, has served for 24 years in the U.S. Air Force. In addition to administrative paperwork, Jones'