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  • Grand Forks AFB Spouses’ Club offering scholarships

    The Grand Forks Air Force Base Spouses' Club wants to help you pay for college.The club is offering scholarships to high school seniors and Air Force spouses, with an April 27, 2012, deadline.The scholarship selection committee "considers an applicant's community service, special interests, talent

  • Early retirement offered to select enlisted Airmen

    Air Force officials announced an application window for targeted early retirements for enlisted Airmen. Eligible Airmen will have 15-19 years of service in fiscal 2012 and be in the grades of staff sergeant through master sergeant in overmanned career fields.The Temporary Early Retirement Authority

  • Airman missing from Vietnam War identified

    The Department of Defense Prisoners of War/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Allen J. Avery of Arlington, Mass.,

  • Air Force to continue legacy of innovation, Donley says

    More than any other military service, people have viewed the U.S. Air Force as an innovative and "leap ahead" organization, the service's top civilian leader said here today.The pieces are in place to continue that legacy, Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley told the Defense Writers Group.Even

  • GFAFB youth inspiration for local play

    "Deployed," a one-act play based on the experiences of military children from Grand Forks Air Force Base, will be performed April 13-14 in the Fire Hall Theatre in downtown Grand Forks.The play focuses on what it's like to have family members deploy with the military and was created with input from

  • DARPA looking for 8 motivated Airmen

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency needs eight motivated officers for the fiscal year 2013 Service Chiefs Program, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced.Application packages for the three-month program, which begins in September, are due to the AFPC officer developmental

  • First lady unveils new military spouse hiring effort

    First Lady Michelle Obama today announced a new hiring effort intended to deliver thousands of portable, flexible job opportunities to military spouses and veterans in the coming years.Eleven companies have pledged more than 15,000 jobs for military spouses and veterans, the first lady said, noting

  • Mosquito fogging to begin on GFAFB

    The early arrival of warm spring weather brings an unwelcome guest: Mosquitoes. The 319th Civil Engineering Squadron Pest Management Section will begin fogging once mosquito surveillance data allows chemical control in compliance with state and federal requirements. This article serves as

  • GFAFB hosts Beautiful Child Photo Shoot and Activity Fair

    Base officials welcomed a record-sized crowd at the April 3, 2012, Beautiful Child Photo Shoot and Activity Fair.Pamela Schumaker, Family Child Care coordinator with the Child and Youth Program, said 328 visitors attended the annual fair to commemorate Month of the Military Child and Child Abuse