Oct. 23, 2018 Halloween safety tips SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- With Halloween around the corner everybody is stocking up on candy and costumes for the big evening. As children are filling the streets going door to door in search of their favorite sweet delicacies we need to remember to keep it safe. Some great ways to avoid an
Oct. 23, 2018 VA Women's Health Transition Training SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Women’s Health Services Office has partnered with the Air Force Women’s Initiative Team to develop the VA Women’s Health Transition Pilot Training. This program, which began implementing training sessions at Air Force bases in
Oct. 23, 2018 Being vigilant while online SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, ILL. -- We live in a day and age of exponential progress. Take our population, for example. There were one billion humans on the planet by 1800, but by 1927, one and a quarter century later, it was double that. In even less time, by 2011, the population had exploded to seven
Oct. 22, 2018 Why COMSEC is important? Communication security can be something as simple as a decoder ring you received in the mail as a child or as advanced as an electronic mathematical algorithm created for securing satellite communications thousands of miles away in space. Whether you were decoding messages written with your friends
Oct. 19, 2018 General Miller engages AMC senior leaders at Phoenix Rally SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. – Approximately 100 commanders, command chiefs, their spouses and AMC directors attended Air Mobility Command’s 2018 Fall Phoenix Rally conference Oct. 17 - 18, here.
Oct. 17, 2018 375th AMW welcomes new command chief, family For a 26-year-old Leon Calloway, joining the Air Force was a way to provide for his growing family and move out of a bad neighborhood for a “fresh start.” He’d been working two jobs in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and “finally got tired of the grind.” “The neighborhood we lived in wasn’t the best,” he
Oct. 15, 2018 18th AF Commander visits Showcase Wing The 18th Air Force commander, Maj. Gen. Sam Barrett, capped off the end of a three-day tour of the Showcase Wing with a commander’s call at the Scott Event Center Oct. 12. During the tour, Barrett and Chief Master Sgt. Todd Petzel, 18th AF command chief, visited Airmen from the 375th AMW, 932nd
Oct. 15, 2018 Scott Celebrates 2018 National Fire Prevention Week The 375th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. took part in the 2018 National Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 7-13, by reaching out to inform the local community on what to do in the event of a fire.This year, the Scott fire department approached the week with a “Look,
Oct. 15, 2018 Training for Combating Trafficking in Person deadline approaches Did you know that trafficking in persons is the second largest criminal activity in the world, after illegal drug trafficking? Trafficking in Person is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, transfer, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse or exploitation of a person. The three
Oct. 14, 2018 AMC/A6 hosts cyber interns One can’t help but to hear news stories of companies getting hacked and data being exfiltrated. Just a few weeks ago, it was reported hackers gained access to 50 million Facebook accounts.As interconnected systems become more and more commonplace, so does the need for increased security and trained