Lt. Col. Noel Colls, flight surgeon for the Air Force's "Thunderbirds" air demonstration squadron, administers the oath of enlistment to new recruits during the Wings Over Houston Airshow in Houston Oct. 9, 2021. The team typically performs an enlistment ceremony at each sho...
Bonuses are one tool the Air Force uses to entice enlisted airmen to stay in critical career fields, particularly those that are hard to keep fully staffed, like cybersecurity, and that require extensive skills and qualifications. Along with the bonuses, the Air Force announced i...
TheAir Force brought on a new chief of staff, Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, in August 2020. Brown quickly set about outlining ambitious goals in the fall with the first steps to be enacted in 2021. Goals range from updating methods for training airmen to bureaucratic management; Brown said th...
Air Force Enlisted Rank Structure – Ranks, Pay Grades, Duties, and Promotion Schedules November 12, 2017USAF Officer The Air Force enlisted force structure is unique among the services. The pay grades are the same, but the names of the ranks are different. There are also unique positions in...
Cadets have a rank structure similar to the United States Air Force enlisted and officer grades, excluding those of General Officers. A Cadet starts as a Cadet Airman Basic, and is promoted as he or she completes each achievement. Unlike the regular Armed Forces, where it is possible to ...
I had never heard of this unit, code-named “Operation Safeside,” and certainly had no voluntary interest in such Air Force “ranger” assignment. I was still waiting for orders to serve in the AF correctional program that had been all but promised when I enlisted. I subsequently learned ...
To our knowledge, there wasn’t even a JAG investigation by the Army. We are betting that an Army Major who was having affairs with other men’s wives at his civilian job, most likely was having his way with enlisted women as well. That’s called FRATERNIZATION. ...
John L. Jankas Jr. became the 1 millionth recruit enlisted by the Air Force since it had become its own service, a major milestone in Air Force history. That same year, basic military training became a six-week course that could be completed in a single phase. ...
“From the Big Apple to Watertown, Wisconsin, and every community in between, our recruiters crushed it,” Davis said. The Army conducted a major overhaul of its recruiting efforts last year, adding dedicated enlisted and warrant officer job positions, extending recruiter training by two ...