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  • ARPC explains procedures for validating early retired pay

    Air Reserve Personnel Center officials are finalizing procedures for validating the receipt of retired pay before Citizen Airmen turn 60 years old. Since Jan. 28, 2008, Guard and Reserve Airmen can reduce the age they receive retirement pay by three months for each aggregate of 90-day period of

  • Electric Gators

    Electric cars have arrived and are being used to support operations at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base as the base continues its efforts in going green. The Civil Engineering Squadron purchased two electric Gators TE Utility Vehicles; the utility vehicles made by John Deere, in October 2008

  • Alumni News - February 2009

    Thursday, February 19th brought the first of this year's monthly Alumni meetings. We may have a small group that's able to attend and participate, but we certainly make up for the lack of numbers in the amount of dedication we show to the 174th and to each other. Since the Thanksgiving Alumni Social

  • 174th Fighter Wing members training to becoming certified instructors

    Wing senior leadership, unit members, family and friends were on hand to watch as 12 Airmen graduated from the unit's first Basic Instructor's Course on the 6th of February 2009. Air Education and Training Command sent Tech. Sgt. Ezekiel Jiminez to Hancock Field Air National Guard Base to teach a

  • 174th CBRNE Defense Awareness class offered

    The 174th Fighter Wing emergency management office here took the unique step of combining the computer based training and hands on skills Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRNE) Defense course into single day-long course. The day-long course was necessitated because the

  • Don't Let Financial Strain = Military Pain

    The news is bleak. Just listen to any news program for more than five seconds and you hear how bad the economy is, and how it is likely to get worse still. These are genuinely scary times, and even the most stouthearted amongst us seem to be grappling with what is going on. Some have lost their

  • Military Fatherhood Award

    This award is given each year to a military father who goes above and beyond his duties - both as a serviceman and as a dad! To make sure he and his family stay connected throughout the stresses of military life. The awardee is chosen from a pool of nominations by moms, wives, kids, friends, and

  • PCS'ing to Technical School? Read-up on BAH Entitlements

    Great information for personnel headed off to technical school in a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) status, whether in support of conversion or routine.... Members With Dependents: Members in the grades of E-6 without dependents going to Technical School (PCS) are entitled to Partial BAH if

  • Super Bowl Safety Tips

    SUPER BOWL PLANNER: Fans Don't Let Fans Drive Drunk. Pass Your Keys to a Sober, Designated Driver Before the Super Bowl Begins. · Super Bowl Sunday is one of the year's most dangerous days on the nation's roadways due to impaired driving. · According to the National Highway Traffic Safety