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  • AFRS announces Operation Blue Suit winners

    Each year, AFRS selects the most outstanding Airmen in our command as Operation Blue Suit winners. Winners are nominated and selected from nearly 2,400 recruiting personnel, recognizing them for their outstanding contributions to the Air Force recruiting mission.The Operation Blue Suit tradition

  • Recruiter’s professional relationship with Airman’s family saves a life

    When the text came into his phone Oct. 30, Staff Sgt. James Tench immediately picked up the phone to call the sender. This text, unlike the hundreds of others received, wasn't a question from a recruit; it was from a mother who was crying out for help.The mother of an Airman, who Tench had recruited

  • Senior Airman keeps AFRS servers purring

    Senior Airman Jeremy Vaughn, Air Force Recruiting Service software developer, was named Airman of the Quarter for Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph and given a key to the city and a Texas state flag in a ceremony here Dec. 4. Vaughn is responsible for developing software and maintaining the Air Force

  • Line officer accessions impacted by personnel policy changes

    Air Force Recruiting Service officials announced today they are implementing changes that impact line officer accessions, as part of Air Force's recent release about posturing for future force management initiatives.Impacts of this change affect selected candidates and new applicants. Currently, a

  • An Air Force gatekeeper’s day

    Ever wonder what a day in the life of an Air Force recruiter is like? How many people do they talk to versus how many will get to call themselves an airman?Tech. Sgt. Michael Lundell is an Air Force recruiter in West Valley. His day-to-day routine is always busy, from going on school visits to work

  • Living history

    Bill Steffens, an Air Force veteran who served from 1943-1953, was honored in a ceremony Oct. 17 in Traverse City, Mich. Steffens designed the pararescue patch in 1952 for a contest when he was stationed at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, as a staff sergeant. Steffens was watching a pararescue