U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Kevin Mitterholzer
Col. Kristin A. Hillery, commander, 752nd Medical Squadron, presents Dr. Thurston Gaines, Tuskegee Airman, a shirt and coin from the 752 MDS at March Air Reserve Base, Apr. 11, 2015. Gaines was invited to speak to members of the medical squadron about his time spent in a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, and other experiences he had as a Tuskegee Airman.
April is the Month of the Military Child and at March Air Reserve Base, we value our children and their health. With that in mind, we reprint this article from www.mlitaryonesource.mil to help each of us know more about our children’s health and fitness.
Physical education, or PE, is more than just a class in school and it’s for more than just athletes. Physical Education means making sure you know how to keep your body feeling good every day, no matter who you are. One way to do that is to make sure that you stay physically fit and active.
Find activities that you like to do. Do you like to play soccer or basketball? Do you like to swim or take walks? Do you like to dance or do yoga? Figure out what makes you happy and try to be active at least once a day.
Keep track of your “screen time.” Ask yourself: How long have I been sitting in front of the TV or the computer? If the answer is more than one hour, it’s time to get moving! Instead of instant messaging your friends all night long, get together for a walk or a game of basketball. If it must be video games, make it an active one!
Check out your school, local gym or YMCA. Many times you can get a great gym membership rate as a student and find that you enjoy lifting weights, taking fitness classes or playing a game of pick-up basketball. The March Fitness Center is free and open to dependents 16 years and older.
Do activities solo. If you’re alone, ride a bike, do a fitness video, walk the dog, invent some new dance moves or try some jumping jacks and push-ups.
Get a group of friends together. If you’re with others, play baseball or basketball, go to the gym, head to the local park, go for a group run/walk or a bike ride, or make up a dance routine.
Stay hydrated. When you’re active, make sure you drink a lot of water.
And have fun! Whether you’re stuck inside due to rain or heat, all by yourself or with a whole group of friends, there’s always a way to have fun while being active. If the weather seems too hot (or cold): go swimming, wash the car, go for an early-morning hike or go to the gym.
For more information and resources to help military youth and teens navigate everything from the unique challenges of a military life to managing their social lives, saving money and going green, search for Military Youth on the Move on the militaryonesource website.
MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif. – As the nation celebrates the 45th annual Earth Day this April 22, the Air Force is re-emphasizing its standing commitment to environmental stewardship and encouraging its military and civilian workforce to promote recycling both at home and on the job, and asking them to leverage available opportunities to “Conserve Today – Secure Tomorrow.”
“The 452nd Air Mobility Wing is actively engaged in meeting or exceeding goals set by the Department of Defense for recycling,” said Col. Stephen Browning, vice commander. “In partnership with our local recycling yard and The Defense Logistics Agency, we have recycled all of our broken and replaced electronic equipment (and) we continue to devote time and resources to this very important endeavor.”
Installations across the enterprise are taking action to meet the Defense Department’s strategic sustainability performance plan goal of diverting 55 percent of non-hazardous solid waste, and 100 percent of electronics waste, this fiscal year and beyond.
“This is the highest diversion goal in the history of Air Force diversion efforts,” said Nancy Carper, subject matter expert on integrated solid waste management at the Air Force Civil Engineer Center.
Meeting these goals requires diligence and participation from everyone, from the recycling center manager looking for new ways to expand services, to office workers taking advantage of all available opportunities to recycle and not throwing out items like paper, plastic, aluminum cans and cardboard, Carper said.
Keeping abreast of recycling trends and opportunities helped the recycling program at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, “increase recycling volume from450,000 pounds annually 14 years ago to almost five million pounds annually today,” said Jesse Salinas, qualified recycling program manager there.
In an age of growing technology, the need for effective electronics recycling has garnered national attention.
While all Air Force-owned electronic equipment is required to be recycled through Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services (DLA-DS), the Air Force is encouraging its workforce to take proactive steps to keep home electronics out of the waste stream and is encouraging individuals to take advantage of the U.S. Postal Service’s Blue Earth Federal Recycling Program. Established in 2013, makes it easier for individuals to recycle personally owned ink cartridges and unwanted electronic devices free of charge using the postal network.
Air Force and other federal employees can send eligible electronics items through the mail to a certified recycler at no cost. Upon receipt, data are wiped from the devices to ensure privacy and information protection.
Images capture the celebration and love at the Team March Father/Daughter Masquerade Ball held Saturday, April 11, on base. The first event of its kind here, organizers plan to make it an annual event to raise funds for Airmen in need and local charities.
Each year, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum leads the nation in commemorating Days of Remembrance, which was established by the U.S. Congress to memorialize the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust—as well as the millions of non-Jewish victims—of Nazi persecution.
Millions of ordinary people witnessed the crimes of the Holocaust—in the countryside and city squares, in stores and schools, in homes and workplaces. Across Europe, the Nazis found countless helpers who willingly collaborated or were complicit in their crimes. The victims had no control over, or choice in their fates.
The rescuers, on the other hand, made choices. They chose to risk their own and their families’ lives, in an attempt to intervene and help rescue those being persecuted. This article commemorates the actions and stories of ordinary people who, through their actions, became extraordinary.
Emilie Schindler, housewife, was essential to her husband Oskar’s efforts to protect Jews during the Holocaust. While Oskar was away, she encountered Nazis taking 250 starving Jews to a death camp. She convinced them that more Jews were needed at their factory, which already employed more than one thousand. She worked tirelessly to save them. As of 1994, there were more than 6,000 descendants of the original 1,200 that the couple saved.
Anton Schmid, was an Austrian who was drafted into the German army. While stationed in Lithuania, he used his position to help Jews at every opportunity. He provided them with jobs, permits, provisions, shelter, and transport to safer areas. He even hid some in his apartment and office.
Father Czeslaw Baran was a Franciscan Monk who, during the Holocaust and along with other priests, nuns, and monks, rescued Jews by hiding them in more than 900 church institutions across Poland. Poland was the only country in which providing assistance to Jews was routinely punished by death. Baran and his fellow monks worked with the Sisters of Mary to hide Jewish children in a convent school near Warsaw. After the liberation, all the children were returned to the surviving Jewish community. Although he was warned that the Nazis had heard of his activities, he persisted until he was arrested and executed for treason.
Captain Paul Grueninger, commander of the Swiss Border Police, chose to disregard orders to close the borders to Jewish refugees. He falsified documents to allow 3,600 Jews to enter and stay in Switzerland. He was terminated for defying orders, and was convicted of breach of duty, and left destitute. He said, “My personal well-being, measured against the cruel fate of these thousands, was so insignificant and unimportant that I never even took it into consideration.”
Irena Sendler, a senior administrator, successfully smuggled more than 2,500 Jewish children to safety and gave them temporary new identities. She was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo, who broke her feet and legs. She refused to betray either her fellow liberators or any of the Jewish children in hiding. In spite of all her fearless actions, she nonetheless lamented, “We are not heroes. I continue to have qualms of conscience that I did so little.”
During a medical appointment, Maria Olt saw that her physician was wearing a yellow emblem. He told her that he feared for his family’s safety. She took him, his wife, and their newborn daughter to a small village where she created false identity documents for them, and hid them for ten months until the war ended. She also took care of numerous Jewish families and personally carried a baby girl out of the Warsaw ghetto, claiming she was a Christian.
Leopold Socha, a sanitation worker, discovered Jews crawling through the sewers to escape the liquidation of the Lwow ghetto. Using his knowledge of the sewer systems, he found hiding places and, with his wife and a co-worker, brought food and news from the outside. He initially received money for his efforts, but chose to continue to help after the payments stopped. Ten of the twenty-one people he tried to help survived.
When the deportation of Jews began in Belgium, Father Henri Reynders (Father Bruno), recently released from a POW camp, organized an underground operation to shelter Jewish children. He provided them with ration cards and false identification papers, and arranged financial support for their host families. After the liberation, he helped reunite the children with surviving parents.
Henry Christian Thomsen was an innkeeper in Denmark, who joined the Danish resistance. He saved hundreds of Jews by helping them escape Nazi-occupied Denmark. His inn served as a secret meeting place for fishermen who used their boats to take Jews to Sweden. When the growing number of Jews seeking help swamped his fellow smugglers, he bought a boat to help transport them himself. He was caught and died in a concentration camp.
During September 1941, the Nazis and local collaborators murdered 33,000 Jews in a ravine outside the Ukrainian capital. Some Jews managed to escape, and were saved by their neighbors, who provided them shelter and food. Tatyana and Ania Kontsevich, a homemaker and her 10-year-old daughter, sheltered a family in their attic. While home alone, Ania distracted German soldiers from searching the attic, where the family would inevitably have been discovered.
Nicholas Winton singlehandedly established an organization that helped nearly 700 Jewish Czechoslovakian children by bringing them to Britain for adoption. He insisted, “I just saw what was going on and did what I could to help. There is nothing that can’t be done, if it’s fundamentally reasonable…” An estimated 5,000 survivors and their descendants are alive today because of Winton’s actions.
After Yugoslavia was invaded, Moshe Mandil and his family fled into Albania. Refik Veseli, a 16-year-old student and photography apprentice, took them to his parents’ house in the Muslim village of Krujë. Mandil’s children lived openly as villagers while he and his wife hid in a small room in a barn. After the war, the family returned to Yugoslavia and reopened their photography shop. Refik lived with them and continued his apprenticeship.
Born in Spain, Juliette Usach fled the Spanish civil war and became the director of a children’s home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France. She and other residents hid Jewish refugees and supplied them with false identification papers, birth certificates, and ration cards. Groups of Jews also were taken across the border into Switzerland. It is estimated that the people of Le Chambon village saved more than 5,000 refugees.
Today these courageous individuals are considered heroes, but many rescuers did not see themselves this way. The villagers refused to accept praise. “How can you call us good?” one villager asked. “We did what had to be done.”
For the United States Armed Services, these events are not a distant memory. Our modern military was forged in the fight against Nazi tyranny. To defeat Hitler we mobilized all of the strength that we could muster, and in that effort we witnessed many of our finest hours as a military and indeed, as a country.
Today we carry forward the proud legacy of men and women of the United States Army who played a vital role in liberating the camps at Buchenwald, Dora-Mittelbau, Flossenbürg, Dachau, and Mauthausen. American forces not only brought freedom to the survivors of Nazi horrors, they also made sure that in its aftermath the world would know what had happened.
In the days after Allied forces captured the first concentration camps, General Dwight Eisenhower, General George Patton, and General Omar Bradley themselves inspected a camp, and saw atrocities that had occurred. They were, in Eisenhower’s words, atrocities “beyond the American mind to comprehend.”
Eisenhower ordered every American soldier in the area who was not on the front lines to tour these camps, so that they could themselves see what they were fighting against, and why they were fighting. These soldiers became not only liberators, but witnesses to one of the greatest atrocities in history.
The commitment of our forces to the survivors of Nazi atrocities did not end with liberation. In the aftermath of war, we cared for survivors and we helped reunite families. We provided physical nourishment, and we provided spiritual nourishment as well.
Days of Remembrance raises awareness that democratic institutions and values are not simply sustained, but need to be appreciated, nurtured, and protected. It also clearly illustrates the roots and ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping in any society. More importantly, silence and indifference to the suffering of others, or to the infringement of civil rights in any society, can—however unintentionally—perpetuate these problems.
WASHINGTON (AFNS) — To highlight the year-round contributions, courage and patriotism of the military community’s youngest members, the Defense Department observes April as the Month of the Military Child, said a Pentagon official.
Established by then-Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in 1986, the month recognizes some 1.9 million U.S. military children ranging in age from infants to 18 years old, who have one or both parents serving in the armed forces, said Barbara Thompson, the director of DOD’s Office of Family Readiness Policy.
“We want to highlight their sacrifices (and) support of the military member in their families, so it behooves us to take time from the busy calendar of our events and recognize military children,” she said.
Permanent change of stations, deployments and training activities, among other facets of military life, can present unique challenges to children who must constantly adjust to distance, unfamiliarity and uncertain schedules, Thompson explained.
“That can be a real sacrifice, because each parent is a very important part of that child’s makeup,” she said. “So we want to make sure that when they move or change schools, (that) all of those transition times are supported with resources, programs and services.”
Military OneSource is a resource available 24/7, 365 days a year, to support parents to learn more about parenting skills, as well as to find support for themselves, Thompson said. It also offers telephonic, face-to-face, online and video nonmedical and financial counseling, which she described as “strengthening pillars” for military households separated from extended family or settling into a new environment.
The Airman and Family Readiness office at March Air Reserve Base is an excellent place to find resources for your family. They can be reached at 951-655-5322.
“There is no ‘wrong’ door,” Thompson said. “So regardless of where you’re seeking support, whether it’s with your pediatrician or with your chaplain, he or she will also know the resources to support you in your efforts to navigate the military life course.”
Community outreach initiatives include partnerships with the Department of Agriculture and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s 4-H youth group to promote “Purple Up!” on April 15, Thompson said. Students, school sports team members, teachers and community leaders will wear purple as a visual tribute to military children.
“It is hard to be a military child, and they’re doing it super well,” Thompson said.
Technical Sergeant Anthony E. Salazar
August 31, 1974 – April 13, 2015
Tech. Sgt. Anthony “Tony” Salazar, mechanical systems repairman, 452nd Civil Engineer Squadron, March Air Reserve Base, California, died Monday April 13, 2015.
Salazar lived in Hermosa Beach, California and had been a member of the Air Force Reserve for seven years. He entered active duty military service in August 1995 and joined the 452 CES in January 2008. Salazar was committed to the Air Force mission and deployed multiple times, including two deployments to the United Arab Emirates. In June 2014, he was a member of a small team of 452nd Air Mobility Wing members who supported the 70th Commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France (pictured). As a Team March member, he helped complete several high-profile engineering projects, including reconstruction of the Heacock drainage channel in September 2014. Throughout his career with 452 CES, he was regarded as the hardest working member of his team, and served as a leader and mentor to younger troops. He was currently enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program at Trident University.
He is survived by his son, Hunter; parents, Patricia and Eddie; sister, Desiree and many friends. Memorial and funeral arrangements are pending. For more information, contact Tech. Sgt. Omar Barraza at 951-655-3015 or Maj. Tricia Betts at 951-655-6786.
The Retiree Activities office reports the passing of retired Senior Master Sgt. John Everett Smith on April 7. After serving 29 years on active duty, Smith still found time to serve his fellow retirees and their families as a Team March member. “He will be truly missed by all who knew and served with him.” — retired Chief Master Sgt. Clyde Schweitzer
With summer quickly approaching, we need to know how to prepare for the heat.
Heat kills by pushing the human body beyond its limits. In extreme heat and high humidity, evaporation is slowed and the body must work extra hard to maintain a normal temperature.
Most heat disorders occur because the victim has been overexposed to heat or has over-exercised for his or her age and physical condition. Older adults, young children and those who are sick or overweight are more likely to succumb to extreme heat.
Conditions that can induce heat-related illnesses include stagnant atmospheric conditions and poor air quality. Consequently, people living in urban areas may be at greater risk from the effects of a prolonged heat wave than those living in rural areas. Also, asphalt and concrete store heat longer and gradually release heat at night, which can produce higher nighttime temperatures known as the “urban heat island effect.”
A heat wave is an extended period of extreme heat, and is often accompanied by high humidity. These conditions can be dangerous and even life-threatening for humans who don’t take the proper precautions.
To prepare for extreme heat, you should:
•To begin preparing, you should build an emergency kit and make a family communications plan.
•Install window air conditioners snugly; insulate if necessary.
•Check air-conditioning ducts for proper insulation.
•Install temporary window reflectors (for use between windows and drapes), such as aluminum foil-covered cardboard, to reflect heat back outside.
•Weather-strip doors and sills to keep cool air in.
•Cover windows that receive morning or afternoon sun with drapes, shades, awnings, or louvers. (Outdoor awnings or louvers can reduce the heat that enters a home by up to 80 percent.)
•Keep storm windows up all year.
•Listen to local weather forecasts and stay aware of upcoming temperature changes.
•Know those in your neighborhood who are elderly, young, sick or overweight. They are more likely to become victims of excessive heat and may need help.
•Be aware that people living in urban areas may be at greater risk from the effects of a prolonged heat wave than are people living in rural areas.
•Get trained in first aid to learn how to treat heat-related emergencies.
Familiarize yourself with these terms to help identify an extreme heat hazard:
Heat Wave – Prolonged period of excessive heat, often combined with excessive humidity.
Heat Index – A number in degrees Fahrenheit (F) that tells how hot it feels when relative humidity is added to the air temperature. Exposure to full sunshine can increase the heat index by 15 degrees.
Heat Cramps – Muscular pains and spasms due to heavy exertion. Although heat cramps are the least severe, they are often the first signal that the body is having trouble with the heat.
Heat Exhaustion – Typically occurs when people exercise heavily or work in a hot, humid place where body fluids are lost through heavy sweating. Blood flow to the skin increases, causing blood flow to decrease to the vital organs. This results in a form of mild shock. If not treated, the victim’s condition will worsen. Body temperature will keep rising and the victim may suffer heat stroke.
Heat Stroke – A life-threatening condition. The victim’s temperature control system, which produces sweating to cool the body, stops working. The body temperature can rise so high that brain damage and death may result if the body is not cooled quickly.
Sun Stroke – Another term for heat stroke.
Excessive Heat Watch – Conditions are favorable for an excessive heat event to meet or exceed local Excessive Heat Warning criteria in the next 24 to 72 hours.
Excessive Heat Warning – Heat Index values are forecast to meet or exceed locally defined warning criteria for at least 2 days (daytime highs=105-110° Fahrenheit).
Heat Advisory – Heat Index values are forecast to meet locally defined advisory criteria for 1 to 2 days (daytime highs=100-105° Fahrenheit).
FREE DISTRACTIVE DRIVING COURSE
A distractive driving demonstration course will be set up within the parking lot of the March Main Exchange on Saturday, April 11, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. The course will be operated by the California Highway Patrol, Riverside Area, in conjunction with Riverside Metro Auto Group and March Air Reserve Base Army & Air Force Exchange Services to save lives and educate all motorists. Participants will be required to have a valid driver license and will be accompanied through the course by a CHP officer. The CHP officer will have the driver perform different distractions as he or she negotiates the course to demonstrate the dangers of distractive driving. The Exchange address is 23640 N. St, Riverside, CA 92518. This event is open to the public.
RESILIENCY, ANTI-BULLY TRAINING
The Airman and Family Readiness Center, through the Military Child Education Coalition, will host a free U.S. Air Force Resilience and Bully Proofing Webinar Wednesday, April 29, 8 a.m. for all DOD personnel assigned to Air Force installations and their family members.
The training will help parents understand the importance of raising resilient children and how to help children cope effectively with new challenges. Parents will learn more about what to do to promote social skills, values and behaviors that “bully proof” children. To register for remote viewing, go to https://cc.readytalk.com/r/5kvplz51xshp&eom.
MILITARY’S/VETERAN’S KIDS AGES 8-15
If you are a military dependent or child of a veteran and you are between the ages of 8 – 15, read on! The Scooter Project is offering a day for you to learn to ride scooters on May 3, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at The Scooter Zone in Corona. There will be food, giveaways, a pro rider expo and more. No experience or equipment is necessary. To learn more or to sign up, email 452amw.paworkflow@us.af.mil with “SCOOTER” in the subject line. Include parent’s names and contact information as well as child’s age(s). Space is limited, so it is first come – first served. Deadline for sign up is April 15.
BE PART OF AMERICA’S PREPARATHON!
Be prepared when disaster strikes. Join America’s Preparathon to learn how. March’s point of contact for the national emergency preparedness program is Senior Airman Jennifer King at 951-655-3024 or jennifer.king.20@us.af.mil.
COMMISSARY CASE LOT SALE MAY 1 – 4
The March Commissary’s next next case lot sale is scheduled for May 1 – 4. Sale hours will be Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.; and Monday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Save the dates and stay tuned for more details as they become available.
RETIREE ACTIVITIES OFFICE RELOCATED
The March Field Retiree Activities Office has moved to Bldg. 441, Rm. 25. The address is 1920 Graeber St., March Air Reserve Base, Calif. 92518. Their hours remain 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. The RAO would like to thank the Civil Air Patrol-March Field Composite Squadron 45, for their help with the move.
FORCE SUPPORT SQUADRON UPDATES SOCIAL MEDIA
The 452nd Force Support Squadron has updated and merged its Facebook page and combined all upcoming events into one, easy-to-find location. Visit them at www.facebook.com/MarchFSS to keep up on events and outings.
FINANCIAL WORKSHOP OFFERED APR 21
The Airman and Family Readiness office is hosting a Financial Workshop Lunch and Learn on Tuesday, April 21, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in Bldg. 2313, Rm. 6 (the 452nd Mission Support Group conference room), 1261 Graeber St. All base personnel are welcome to attend but pre-registration is required by calling 951-655-5350. Bring your lunch and learn how the Thrift Savings Plan can improve your net worth by paying yourself first!
VOLUNTEERS TO PACE RUNNERS
The Rising 6 is looking for volunteers to be part of its Fit to Fight Pacing Program for Airmen. Their mission is to help people improve F2F test run times. To volunteer you must score 90 percent or better on your last two F2F tests and have the confidence to pace at the desired time requested by the tester. You don’t have to be a fast runner to be a pacer. For more information or to volunteer, contact Tech. Sgt. Ygnacio Garcia at ygnacio.garcia04@gmail.com or 714-721-7683.
E-MAGAZINE FREE TO MILITARY, FAMILIES
Chronicling Greatness has just finalized its first issue of an E-Magazine, “The American Heroes of War World War II History From Those Who Lived It.” In conjunction with the non-profit International Urban Exchange Center (IUEC), they are offering the E-Magazine to all military personnel and their families for free. This E-Magazine presents first-person accounts from veterans and civilians who lived during, and participated in, the most monumental event of the 20th century, World War II. The accounts are from personal interviews by Adam P. Kennedy. You can access the EMagazine by visiting http://online.3dpageflip.com/wjhm/oxhr.
YELLOW RIBBON APRIL EVENT
The Air Force Reserve Command Yellow Ribbon Program invites you to a Regional Yellow Ribbon Training event to be held in Orlando, Fla., May 15-17. This event will include activities, referral information, education, vendor booths and interactive breakout sessions that span the concerns and issues faced by reservists and their loved ones before and after a deployment, including: Tricare, Airmen & Family Readiness, ESGR, legal assistance for wills & powers of attorney, Military Family Life Consultants, Personal Financial Consultants, and more. For information on the event and the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program, contact the 452 AMW Yellow Ribbon Representative, 2nd Lt Shelley Lawrence at 951-655-4615 or shelley.lawrence@us.af.mil.
FITNESS CENTER NEWS
The March Fitness Center has received the Wellbeats Virtual Group Fitness Kiosk. This kiosk allows members to participate in virtual fitness classes. The first class scheduled is a virtual spin class at 12:15 p.m. on Wednesdays. Contact the Fitness Center at 951-655-2292 for a schedule of upcoming classes or more information.
April’s Fitness Schedule is:
Mondays: 6 a.m. – Virtual Fusion Yoga; 10:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. – Intro TRX; 11 a.m. – Virtual Spin
Tuesdays: 11 a.m. – Virtual Strength “Fit for Duty;” 12:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. – Circuit Training
Wednesdays: 6 a.m. – Virtual Fusion Yoga; 11 a.m. – Zumba; 12:15 p.m. – Virtual Fusion Yoga; 12:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. – Battle Ropes Circuit Training
Thursdays: 11 a.m. – Virtual Spin; 12:15 p.m. – Virtual Strength “Fit for Duty;” 12:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. – Circuit Training
Fridays: 10 a.m. – Zumba; 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. – Intermediate TRX; 11:15 a.m. – Virtual Cardio
UTA Saturdays: “A” UTA – 5 p.m. – Virtual Strength “Fit for Duty;” B UTA – 5-7 p.m. Pick up Basketball
Other activities include:
April – Extramural golf begins
May – Intramural softball begins (letters of intent available at the Fitness Center)
For more information, visit the Fitness Center or call 951-655-2284.
UTA RESCHEDULE GUIDELINES FY15
Col. Muncy has determined that the following FY 15 Unit Training Assemblies may only be rescheduled if the reschedule date is for the alternate UTA during the same month of the A and B UTAs for the months of February, May and August 2015. The wing commander will authorize reschedules outside of the same month, if absolutely necessary, on a case-by-case basis.
TAP VIRTUAL CURRICULUM POLICY
Implementation of the Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) Act of 2011, under H.R. 2433, and the Veterans Employment Initiative (VEI) under Executive Order 13518, has driven a host of new requirements for transitioning personnel. The VOW Act made service-member participation in the re-designed TAP program mandatory as of Nov. 21, 2012. This re-designed program expands counseling and guidance for active and Reserve members separating from the military after serving at least 180 days on active duty. Reservists going on or coming off of 180 consecutive days of orders due to school, BMT, deployments, TDY’s, etc. are required to comply with the following requirements: pre-separation counseling at the A&FRC, VA Benefits briefing (parts I and II), CAPSTONE (DD Form 2958) and five-day TAP workshop.
The VA Benefits brief can be completed in person at March ARB or online, You can attend the five-day TAP workshop at any active duty installation, or online (it takes four days and includes the VA Benefits briefing). For more information please contact the Airman and Family Readiness Center at 655-5350.
BEACON CORRECTION
An error was made in the spelling of Capt. Linda Mansolillo’s last name in the April 3, 2015 Beacon. We apologize for the error.
BEACON PHOTO CAPTION
The author of “Retired Air Force Reservist find inspiration through loss,” printed in the April 3, 2015 Beacon, would like it known that the caption attached to the photo for the story was written by the Beacon editor and not the article author.
SARC RELOCATED TO BLDG 317
The Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and Behavioral Health Coordination office has moved to Bldg. 317, first floor. The address is 2250 Dekay Ave and the office phone number is 951-655-4551. Other important numbers: 24/7 Crisis Reporting line – 951-655-7272; Safe Helpline – 877-995-5247; Military One Source – 800-342-9647.
NOTIFICATION OF DEATH
Colonel Russell A. Muncy, 452nd Air Mobility Wing commander, regretfully announces the death of Senior Airman Travis Pettit, 336th Air Refueling Squadron. Anyone having claims against or indebtedness to the estate of Senior Airman Pettit should contact Maj Brian Weaver, brian.weaver.1@us.af.mil or 951-655-2166.
