Altus Air Force Base News

 

  • TRICARE Nurse Advice Line offers health care guidance

    TRICARE beneficiaries in the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii can now access the Nurse Advice Line to receive health care guidance and advice.The service, launched in April 2014, offers professional help by phone at a moment's notice, officials said."Our mission at Walter Reed National Military

  • AF Assistance Fund may not hit 2014 goal

    In spite of persistent economic difficulties, active-duty and retired Airmen have contributed more than $6 million to the Air Force Assistance Fund, or AFAF, during this year's fund drive.Although the annual AFAF drive has yet to garner this year's $6.4 million goal, contributions continue to roll

  • Civilian Leadership Course

    Sixteen students graduated a leadership class as part of the Altus Civilian Training and Development program July 25, 2014. The program provides tools for civilians to lead in offices and build professional relationships on base."The training gives students an inside view into what senior leadership

  • Altus AFB hosts Feds Feed Families food drive

    Altus AFB is hosting the Feds Feed Families food drive through Aug. 31 to help provide non-perishable items to local families in need.The food drive is a combined effort between the Defense Department, Defense Commissary Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and the Southwest Oklahoma Community

  • Altus Airmen remember the past with unique briefing

    Airmen of the 54th Air Refueling and 58th Airlift Squadrons experienced history from the inside of a U.S. Army Air Forces C- 47 Skytrain military transport aircraft in the Freedom Community Center during an Airlift and Tanker Association tour July 23, 2014.Kay Nehring, World War II Airborne

  • FCC hosts free portrait photography class

    The Freedom Community Center held a free photography class Friday, July 18, 2014.This class was part of a monthly photography series and this month's theme was portraits. Past topics include basic operation of the camera, flower photography and painting with light.U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jaime

  • Existing tools help users reduce PII breaches

    Members of 24th Air Force are refurbishing an old email tool to help Air Force users reduce breaches of personally identifiable information, or PII.The Digital Signature Enforcement Tool, or DSET, which currently prompts users to provide a digital signature when an email contains an active hyperlink

  • Air Force focuses fourth round of VERA/VSIP on headquarters reductions

    In an effort to lead its force management actions with voluntary programs, the Air Force announced a fourth round of civilian workforce shaping measures beginning July 21.This follows the recent Air Force announcement on headquarters organization and staffing reductions. Those changes are designed

  • Commissaries receive DOD award for value engineering

    The Defense Commissary Agency's use of value engineering has garnered a prestigious Department of Defense award.On June 20, DOD selected the Design and Construction Division of DeCA's Logistics and Engineering Directorate, Lackland Air Force Base, Joint Base San Antonio, as a winner in the

  • First sergeants teach NCOs to care for Airmen

     Altus AFB held a four-day First Sergeant Symposium to help prepare NCOs for assuming the temporary roles and responsibilities of being a first sergeant July 14 - 17, 2014. The class covered numerous topics including teaching financial responsibility and providing assistance to Airmen during