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  • VA creating 28 new vet centers

    Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced today that combat veterans will receive readjustment counseling and other assistance in 28 additional communities across the country where the Department of Veterans Affairs will establish vet centers in 2010. "VA is committed to providing

  • 'Top Guns' receive awards at Tuskegee Airmen convention

    The National Tuskegee Airman Inc. president presented awards to members of the historically acclaimed 332nd Fighter Group during the 38th annual convention Aug. 6 through 9 here. The honoring ceremony marked the 60th anniversary of the original "Top Guns" who claimed victory in the 1949 National

  • Shoplifting, resulting costs to military community, down

    High-tech electronic article surveillance systems, eagle-eyed closed-circuit television cameras and an aggressive youth shoplifting awareness campaign helped take "a bite out of crime" at Army and Air Force Exchange Service facilities last year as shoplifting cases dropped 15.7 percent, from 7,635

  • Health care reform won't impact VA, Tricare

    In ongoing discussions about health-care reform, President Barack Obama offered assurance to those receiving medical care through Tricare or the Department of Veterans Affairs: Your benefits are safe. Eligibility for health care under VA or Tricare "will not be affected by our efforts at broader

  • Retired Airman relives his Iraq experience

    Five years ago a rocket attack in Iraq left a former 17th Security Forces Squadron defender without legs and a right arm. Retired Senior Airman Brian Kolfage Jr. has shared his story in Airman magazine, numerous newspapers, online magazines, patriotic Web sites and medical magazines. He was also in

  • Airman missing 40 years is laid to rest

    Rifle volleys rang throughout Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery on July 27. The sound meant a Vietnam War veteran who had been missing in action for more than 40 years was finally home to rest. Active-duty and retired Airmen and their families gathered at Chief Master Sgt. Quincy Adam's final resting

  • New AMC Web site offers space-available travel info

    Air Mobility Command here recently unveiled its first official, command-level AMC Travel Web site. People planning to travel the AMC military travel system can now point their Web browsers to www.amc.af.mil/amctravel/index.asp for the latest in AMC travel information. The site, which officially went

  • Wounded Warrior Diaries: Airman, wife hope to help others

    A wounded Airman and his wife plan to use the lessons they've learned about marriage and friendship through military service and adversity to help servicemembers who might be struggling after deployment or injury. Tech. Sgt. Matthew Slaydon, who will officially retire from the Air Force on Aug. 28,

  • Veterans Affairs helps veteran small-business owners

    More than 1,000 veterans who own small businesses and seek to do more contracting with the federal government recently heard Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki extol the importance of small businesses. He also reaffirmed VA's commitment to helping veterans start or expand their

  • DOD announces new Tricare regional care contractors

    FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AFRNS) -- Department of Defense officials have announced the selection of new Tricare managed care support contractors for the North, South and West Tricare regions in the United States. Tricare Management Activity administers the health care plan for 9.4 million servicemembers,