• Troops to Teachers program earns award

    Troops to Teachers, part of the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support, was awarded The Met Life Foundation/ Civic Ventures BreakThrough Award May 31, one of 10 national award winners.According to the official release, the BreakThrough Award "is for innovative organizations that tap

  • FDA advises consumers to avoid toothpaste containing harmful chemical

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned consumers to avoid using tubes of toothpaste labeled as made in China, and issued an import alert to prevent toothpaste containing the poisonous chemical diethylene glycol from entering the United States. DEG is used in antifreeze and as a solvent.

  • Chaplains implement EMBRACE concept

    Nothing is more important to our purpose of the chaplain service than to be cognizant that we are representatives of God and work to facilitate the free exercise of religion. This reason for our existence, along with our personal touch and availability to Airmen and their families is what sets us

  • PDC open for business

    You can tell by the children splashing in the base pool, playing at the parks and perhaps by the lack of yellow buses in the mornings and the afternoons that school is out, but for the members of team Whiteman attending college, classes are just getting started. Students with State Fair Community

  • Army sergeant qualifies for All-Guard marathon team

    Army Sgt. Michelle Elliott, 1-135th Attack Battalion, competed May 6 in the Lincoln Marathon, and finished 8th among female contenders. "Race day conditions were not favorable," Sergeant Elliott said. "It was a dreary, drizzly day and contended with 30-40 mile per hour headwinds during the last half

  • TRICARE Offers Resources, Treatment for Alcohol Abuse

    Don't Be 'That Guy' As part of a proactive outreach campaign, the Department of Defense launched "That Guy," a multimedia campaign with the goal of reducing excessive drinking among Service men and women, with a campaign reminder, "Don't be 'that guy' (or gal)!" Although "that guy" is the butt of

  • IRS warns taxpayers of new e-mail scams

    The Internal Revenue Service today alerted taxpayers to the latest versions of an e-mail scam intended to fool people into believing they are under investigation by the agency's Criminal Investigation division. The e-mail purporting to be from IRS Criminal Investigation falsely states that the