ANNOUNCEMENTS a/o 9 September 2025

• WELCOME BACK SSG DUSTIN BISSETTE! Sergeant Bissette just returned from his deployment.

• EM Flight 2mile Ruck. Please see EM for reporting instructions if interested (All are welcome)

•  "Dual BAH” - Are You Eligible for This Benefit? If you PCS’d to PME or a formal training course and were there on 23 December 2022 for members WITH dependents or after 2 December 2023 for members WITHOUT dependents, you may be eligible for assistance with your housing costs if you maintained your original residence while attending school. Please read the Knowledge Article linked below to learn more about this extraordinary benefit. You are eligible to apply for it even if you have already returned from a qualifying training course or are currently attending one.  This benefit is paid as Family Separation Housing Allowance (FSH-B) for members with dependents and Dual BAH for members without dependents. It is often informally referred to collectively as “Dual BAH” and was included in the FY23 NDAA for members with dependents and in the FY24 NDAA for Reserve Component members without dependents. If you have questions, please contact the Force Development Office in your FSS and they can assist you.

Article: FSH-B/Dual BAH for ANG Members Who PCS to PME or Training Classes 

• TFAT in DAFeLearning.  Airmen and Guardians now have another option for completing their required Total Force Awareness Training. The training is now available on the Air Force e-Learning platform, accessible at https://usaf.percipio.com/ TFAT training can still be accomplished in myLearning.
  
  https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4169228/total-force-awareness-training-consolidated-data-now-available-in-daf-e-learning/ 

• Reminder: Members with a current medical waiver or religious accommodation must have it readily accessible at all times in a duty status.

  • • Current waivers are good until your next PHA, then 90-days thereafter.

    • Profiles and exemptions (not just shaving) must be always kept on your person while in uniform (consider this a mandatory uniform item).

    • Supervisors and leaders can ask for you to furnish your waiver or exemption if you are in uniform and not clean-shaven.

• All E1-E6 promotion packages are due to the Senior Enlisted Leader for concurrence in order to obtain the Commander's consideration for approval at least five (5) duty days prior to the first and fifteenth of each month.

• The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) implemented the Uniformed Services Identification Card (USID) online renewal process. This new process enables service members to conveniently renew their dependent’s ID cards online, eliminating the need to visit a physical ID Card Office. Sponsors can easily begin this process by visiting the USID website with their CAC at https://idco.dmdc.osd.mil/idco/.

• All personnel must report their unofficial foreign travel to their security officials at least 30 days prior to or as soon as you know of a trip using the new ANG Foreign Travel Reporting Form located on the 113 CES Dashboard. Please contact the Unit Security Manager for any additional questions.

• Airmen Engineers authorized RSD lodging must make their reservation on the Lodging Force website for the next upcoming RSD before the end of the current RSD. If for any reason an Airman Engineer is not attending an RSD and/or Rescheduled Drill (RD), it is still their responsibility to cancel the reservation 72 hours prior to check-in. Additionally, if an Airman Engineer is approved to perform an RD and authorized lodging, their deadline to secure a lodging reservation is 10 days prior to whatever date that they are scheduled to perform their RD.  

• The next RSD is 18-19 October 2025. 

• Any RSD excusal request must be submitted at a minimum of 30 days prior through their respective chain of command to obtain the Commander's consideration. 

AFI 1-1, Air Force Standards, paragraph 1.7.1., cites the chain of command provides the command, control, and communication necessary to accomplish the mission. Each level in the chain is responsible for all lower levels, and accountable to all higher levels. The chain cannot work without loyalty to every level. Loyalty up and down the chain makes a system efficient and effective.  Everyone is a part of, and subject to, the chain of command and must use it properly. The key principle is to resolve problems and seek answers at the lowest possible level.

SUCCESS DEMANDS SIX THINGS: 

1. HARD WORK (don't believe in luck; believe in hard work)

2. PATIENCE (if you're losing the patience, then you're losing the battle)

3. SACRIFICE (if you don't sacrifice for what you want, then what you want becomes the sacrifice)

4. CONSISTENCY (consistency is what transforms average into excellence)

5. DISCIPLINE (motivation gets you going but discipline keeps you growing)

6. SELF-CONFIDENCE (confidence is I'll be fine if they don't like me)