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  • AF officials announce manpower force structure changes

    Air Force officials released force structure changes and resulting manpower impacts from the new DoD strategic guidance and fiscal 2013 President's Budget Mar. 6.The fiscal 2013 President's Budget adjusts Air Force military end strength to 501,000, with net reductions of 3,900 Active Duty, 5,100 Air

  • Top seeds focused heading into intramural basketball playoffs

    The base intramural basketball playoffs began Monday with each of the top teams plotting strategy in order to be the team to take home the trophy at the Dover Air Force Base, Del., Fitness Center on Wednesday night.The top team heading into the playoffs, the 436th Security Forces Squadron (11-2),

  • Next month’s Motorcycle Safety Day to be biggest yet

    Over the past 10 years, the Air Force has lost hundreds of service members - parents, children, siblings and spouses - to an indiscriminate killer. These lives were not lost on convoy operations or in firefights overseas, but on the streets of America. Too many deaths were completely preventable,

  • 13th Annual Ruck March honors Korean War vets

    Approximately 200 service members and civilians met at the Dover Air Force Base, Del., Air Mobility Command Museum Feb. 25, 2012, to partake in the 13th Annual Korean War Remembrance Ruck March, hosted by the 436th Security Forces Squadron. The marchers strapped on 30-pound ruck sacks and embarked

  • Basketball with a heart

    Dover Air Base Middle School held its 10th annual Hoops for Heart fundraiser Feb. 17, Dover Air Force Base, Del. The event culminated in a faculty vs. students vs. Airmen double-header basketball game.The event raised $2,516 for the American Heart Association and allowed all of the students to get

  • DEPpers experience trial by fire

    Approximately 25 members of the Air Force's Delayed Entry Program received a jarring introduction to Basic Military Training at the hands of two former Military Training Instructors Feb. 17, 2012, at the Dover Air Force Base, Del., Air Mobility Command Museum.It was far from a relaxing Friday

  • Informal process proves successful

    In January 2011, Dover Air Force Base, Del., partnered with the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1709 to establish a Labor Management Forum (LMF) designed to improve relations between civilian employees and management.Since its inception, one goal of the LMF has been to formulate

  • Air Force Medical Service turns to secure messaging

    Patients at Air Force medical treatment facilities will soon be able to communicate securely and privately with their health care teams anywhere and anytime due to the Air Force-wide expansion of secure messaging.Secure messaging will be available to patients through what is known as the MiCare

  • Airman of the Week: Airman 1st Class Chelsea Weller

    Name/rank: Airman 1st Class Chelsea WellerSquadron: 436th Operations GroupJob description: Knowledge operations management technicianDream assignment and why: Naval Station Rota, Spain. My stepmother spent 10 years of her childhood in Spain and I would love to see and experience the same things she