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  • February's Heart Awareness Month

    February is Heart Awareness month - a time to draw attention to the prevention of heart disease and promote the activities designed to combat it. According to information from the Centers for Disease Control, approximately one in every four people die of heart disease each year.In an attempt to

  • Military Saves Week helps Airmen keep the change

    The Military and Family Support Center will offer a variety of financial education workshops February 22 -26 in support of Military Saves Week 2016.Since 2003, Military Saves Week has served as an annual DOD Financial Readiness Campaign, which seeks to persuade, motivate, and encourage military

  • James applauds DOD Force of the Future initiatives

    Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James declared her support of department-wide reforms focused on improving quality of life for military parents, following Defense Secretary Ash Carter's Jan. 28 announcement on the next round of Force of the Future initiatives."I applaud Secretary Carter and welcome

  • Click the Purple Globe

    The Command Post advises all military and civilian personnel to update their contact information in the Installation Warning Systems (IWS) commonly referred to as AtHoc. The IWS is used to send out mass notifications to alert personnel of emergency situations such as a base lockdown due to an active

  • JBA hosts Pilot for a Day

    Airmen from across Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, came together to host a Virginia teenager with a rare chronic illness during a Pilot for a Day event here, Feb. 5, 2016.Michael Oliver, diagnosed with Erdheim-Chester Disease, a disease with no known cure, experienced what it is like to be a pilot for

  • 459 ARW employers take to the skies

    The 459th Air Refueling Wing partnered with the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve to show their appreciation for civilian employers by sponsoring a flight aboard a KC-135 refueling aircraft here, Feb. 6. Approximately 20 civilian employers of 459th Airmen took to the skies to see first-hand

  • Imagine Andrews second lottery announced

    The Imagine Andrews school is slated to conduct a second lottery for the military family population of the school's yearly enrollment, starting Feb. 16, 2016."We at the Imagine Schools Mid-Atlantic Regional Office have been working collaboratively with Joint Base Andrews to ensure that we align the

  • Steps to resolution: what to do if in an a gov rental accident

    CommentaryIn August 2015, while traveling from Austin, Texas, to San Antonio in a government rental car, I was making a left-hand turn and did not see the F-250 until it was too late. The truck T-boned my compact car in the passenger side and totaled it.Immediately after the collision, the

  • JBA Commissary supports food banks

    The Commissary on Joint Base Andrews, Md. has been collecting food for a local food bank as part of the Defense Commissary Agency's Feds Feed Families campaign.JBA contributed over 2,000 pounds of food for the food bank program from the summer to the end of 2015."JBA feels a strong sense of

  • 459th inspires students to soar

    Members of the 459th Air Refueling Wing welcomed students from Luke C. Moore High School to their hangar for a tour of 459 ARW missions Jan. 7, 2016.Students observed presentations from the 756th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron and 459th Operations group, to include a medical mannequin display and