• Blood test ends U-2 dream, opens door to UAS possibility

    Capt. Brian Strack was on a fast track almost any young Air Force pilot would envy. After several years as an instructor pilot in the T-1 Jayhawk trainer here, he had an assignment to fly the U-2 "Dragon Lady" - a high-altitude reconnaissance spy plane with a 70,000 foot-plus ceiling that requires a

  • Changes made to SGLI Traumatic Injury program expand benefits

    The Department of Veteran Affairs announced that Traumatic Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance's Traumatic Injury program would expand its benefits as of Nov. 26, 2008. The changes to the program increased the number of traumatic injuries covered by TSGLI, as well as liberalizing the criteria for

  • Balanced scorecard... what's that?

    Throughout history, management has commonly used financial and productivity reports to run operations and align itself with strategic goals. These financial and productivity reports tend to lie well within the strategic level of management. As such, they do not provide management with a good

  • Vance Warrior of the Week -- 1st Lt. Tara J. Nelson

    Name: 1st Lt. Tara J. NelsonDuty: Financial Services officer, budget analyst for the 71st Comptroller-Contractor SquadronHometown: Juliaetta, IdahoFavorite PT Regimen: RunningMission contributions: Lieutenant Nelson led/coordinated Vance's cutover to the Air Force Financial Services Center at

  • Vance runs for the money in AETC energy race

    In the coming months, Vance will compete against 11 other bases for first place in the Air Education and Training Command Energy Management Incentive Award program. Each base will be compared to its own baseline average energy usage from 2005-2007. The base that shows the greatest reduction in