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  • Balfour Beatty hosts town hall to address housing privatization

    About 150 base residents attended a May 16, 2012, housing privatization town hall meeting hosted by Balfour Beatty Communities - the "landlord, manager and maintainer" of all on-base housing beginning Aug. 1.John Schaaf, regional vice president for BBC, briefed the residents on how the switch to

  • Grand Forks commander signs first lease for privatized housing

    Col. Tim Bush, commander of the 319th Air Base Wing, was the first on-base resident to sign his privatized housing lease on May 16, 2012.Bush signed the lease during a meeting in his office with Susan Michael, community manager for Balfour Beatty Communities, just a few hours before the first town

  • Grand Forks AFB to earn Tree City USA Award

    Come on out and help celebrate Arbor Day as the North Dakota Forest Service presents Grand Forks Air Force Base with its 19th Tree City USA Award at 3:30 p.m. on May 21.A proclamation will be read, kids from the Youth Center will help plant three trees and lemonade and cookies will be served.The

  • New guide helps Airmen, families navigate social media

    Airmen and families have a new resource at their fingertips with the recent release of an updated and revised social media guide by the Air Force Public Affairs Agency in San Antonio, Texas.The guide features sections geared toward all Total Force members and their families as well as Air Force

  • VCSAF: Balanced force structure imperative to Air Force readiness

    Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Phil Breedlove and his counterparts from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps testified May 10 before members of the Senate Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support about U.S. military readiness in light of recent budget cuts.In his opening statement, Breedlove

  • Motorcycle rally planned for May 23

    The 319th Air Base Wing Safety Office will host a motorcycle rally show here May 23 in Fast Eddie's parking lot from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The focus of the rally is to provide summer safety awareness and practices with an emphasis on motorcycles. Bicycles, dirt bikes and ATVs will also be on

  • 'Care Beyond Duty' - The Air Force Wounded Warrior Program

    Since Oct. 1, Air Force Wounded Warrior Program nonmedical care managers have assisted Airmen with garnering more than $700,000 worth of benefits and entitlements. This is just one example of how the Air Force Wounded Warrior Program works with, and advocates for, wounded warriors and their

  • Families list retirement, pay as top issues

    Military families regard the possible change of military retirement benefits as their top concern, according to the results of a major survey released today.The 2012 Military Family Lifestyle Survey also shows that pay and benefits, the impact of deployments on children, operational tempo, spouse

  • Welsh nominated as next CSAF

    Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta announced May 10 that the president has nominated Gen. Mark A. Welsh III to be the next chief of staff of the Air Force, succeeding Gen. Norton Schwartz, who has served in the position since August 2008."I'm tremendously honored and deeply humbled by the nomination