Updating Air Force Selection Records
With the Lieutenant Colonel Selection Board convening in late November and the Selective Early Retirement Board and senior master sergeant board coming up in early 2007, eligible Air Force officers and SNCOs should review their records to ensure their performance reports and decorations are on file with the Selection Board Secretariat. To request a copy of a board secretariat record on file at AFPC, members use the Selection Record Request Worksheet on the board secretariat website. The member must scan and e-mail the completed worksheet to Records.Review@randolph.af.mil, or fax it to DSN 665-2693 or commercial (210) 565-2693.
Air Force frequency jams garage door openers
Garage-door remote-control devices were recently knocked out of commission for miles around when a secretive Air Force facility in Colorado Springs, Colo., tested the radio frequency it plans to use in the event of a homeland-security threat.
It seems that the Air Force uses the same frequency that controls an estimated 50 million garage-door openers around the country.
And unless a slight adjustment can be made in the frequency, affected homeowners will have to shell out $250 each to have new units installed, according to an official with the Overhead Door Co. Article
Get a Copy of 'The War Tapes'
Military.com has partnered up with The War Tapes to provide our members with the opportunity to purchase the DVD before it is released. All the profits will be donated to the Armed Forces Relief Trust. Click here to view the website and buy the DVD.
VA Improves Waiting Times
Newly released data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs indicates the agency has dramatically improved its performance in seeing new veterans. In the first part of 2006, nearly 18,000 veterans had to wait thirty days or longer to see a VA doctor for the first time. By October, that number had dropped to less than 4,000. Some of the biggest improvements have come in "VISN 20," an area of the country which includes most Idaho, as well as Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and one county each in Montana and California. There are over 7 million veterans enrolled in VA health care, and VA officials report that 96 percent are able to see a primary care doctor within 30 days. To learn more about veteran's health care, visit
www.military.com/benefits/veterans-health-care.
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