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Department of the Air Force begins integrated personnel, pay system modernization
August 4, 2021 — Uniformed Total Force Airmen and Guardians are invited to create Air Force Integrated Personnel and Pay System accounts as part of a two-phase personnel and pay modernization program... MORE

Hundreds welcome 560th RED HORSE Airmen home
November 7, 2017 — During the warm evening hours of Nov. 3, hundreds of eager family members and friends anxiously awaited for the arrival of more than 90 Citizen Airmen returning from a long deployment in the Middle East. The Airmen, assigned to the 560th RED HORSE Squadron, here, deployed together... MORE

560th Red Horse Returns Home From Deployment

Twice a Reservist, Combat Camera Chief Serving as FEMA Reservist
September 13, 2017 — When Hurricane Harvey hit the Gulf Coast and landed in Houston, Chief Master Sgt. Matt Proietti, 4th Combat Camera Squadron superintendent, at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. knew the distinct possibility existed that Citizen Airmen from his unit may be tasked to document rescue and recovery operations, and he was right. The Chief also knew that he was very likely to be recalled by his other “reserve unit,” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and he was right again. ... MORE

Coast Guard Lt. Commander Karen Kutkiewicz and Federal
Emergency Management Agency reservist Matt Proietti work on a writing plan Sept. 6, 2017, at the Hurricane Harvey Joint Field Office in Austin, Texas. Proietti, a Penn Valley, California, resident, is superintendent of 4th Combat Camera Squadron, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. Kutkiewicz is a public affairs officer at the Coast Guard's 1st District Headquarters in Boston. Both are graduates of the military's Defense Information School. (courtesy photo)

The Journey – From First Sergeant to Flight Nurse
January 17, 2017 — After 22-years of service, most people start thinking about retirement… well, not everyone. In a somewhat unusual move, 1st Lt. Julia Lesage, a former first sergeant, decided after more than two decades in the Air Force to hang up her stripes and pursue a commission to become a flight nurse... MORE

(Left) 1st Lt. Julia Lesage, a former first sergeant now flight nurse with the 315th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, and Senior Airman Josh Lykins, 315th AES medical technician, buckle in a simulated patient during a training mission aboard a C-17 Globemaster III en route to Ramstein Air Base Germany Jan. 13, 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Tom Brading)