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  • Free tutoring service offered to active duty Airmen, families

    State and federal officials joined with leadership from the 436th Airlift Wing at the base library here to kick start awareness of a free online tutoring service available to active duty military members and their dependents.Col. Manson Morris, 436th AW commander, Delaware Governor Jack Markell,

  • Air Force Reinstates Captain Central Selection Board

    Promotion opportunities for active duty line of the Air Force first lieutenants competing for promotion to captain is being adjusted to 95 percent, Air Force officials announced here Oct. 13. Since the promotion opportunity to captain will now be less than 100 percent, the Air Force will reinstate a

  • Law to change coverage for federal employees

    The Affordable Care Act is changing certain aspects of the Federal Employee Health Benefit. Some provisions of the ACA will affect eligibility and benefits beginning Jan. 2. Open season for making changes to a member's insurance enrollment is Nov. 8 through Dec. 13. All changes become final Jan.

  • Dover AFB Family Gathering Park

    There's a saying, "it takes a village to raise a child." At Dover Air Force Base, the saying is being adapted to "it takes a community to raise a playground for the children." According to Colonel Manson Morris, 436th Airlift Wing Commander, Team Dover is again coming together to do good things for

  • Craft show expands

    The Dover Officers' Spouses' Club's 27th Annual Craft Show is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Delaware State Fairgrounds. One of the largest single-day craft shows on the East Coast, this year's DOSC Craft Show features more than 150 vendors from eight different states. Admission is $4; children 12

  • Volunteers help restore national treasure

    More than 95 volunteers from Dover Air Force Base, Del., drove to Gettysburg National Military Park, in Gettysburg, Pa., Oct. 8, to assist National Park Service staff with maintenance and preservation of the hallowed grounds of the national cemetery and civil war battlefield.The semi-annual event is

  • Dover AFB celebrates Red Ribbon Week

    The Drug Demand Reduction Program at Dover Air Force Base, Del., invites the community to take a visible stand against drugs by celebrating Red Ribbon Week from Saturday through Oct. 31. Red Ribbon Week's goal is to raise awareness of drug use and the problems related to drugs that a community faces

  • Charity in full-swing at Dover Air Force Base

    The Combined Federal Campaign, a government program designed to give charities a window to solicit donations from federal employees, is in full-swing at Dover Air Force Base, Del.The program began Oct. 8 and will run through Nov. 30. The goal of the campaign is to have 100 percent contact with all