Financial Readiness Program helps Airmen

Managing finances can be difficult, and that's why the Airman and Family Readiness Center has the Community Action Plan. The plan includes tracking personal financial readiness to help Airmen and their families properly maintain their money and avoid debt.The goal of the Financial Readiness Program

Fairchild implements automated quarters system

Commanders and Unit Health Monitors will now have a more efficient way of being notified that a member of their team has been placed on quarters. Quarters will automatically be signified without detailing patient privacy information, such as diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Any Health Insurance

Fairchild recognizes military families

Fairchild's Finest: Staff Sgt. Nicholas Weber

Name: Staff Sgt. Nicholas Weber Unit: 22nd Training Squadron Weapons and Tactics Duty title: Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape Specialist What do you do on a daily basis at Fairchild Air Force Base? I instruct Subject Matter Expert training for certified SERE Specialist. Some of the courses I

Fairchild's Finest: Staff Sgt. Ashley Hurst

Name: Staff Sgt. Ashley HurstUnit: Personnel Recovery Academy Duty title: Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape/Personnel Recovery AnalystWhat do you do on a daily basis at Fairchild Air Force Base? I support the war-fighter in the Product Development Division of Personnel Recovery Academy. My

Hiring our Heroes in Spokane

An event that aims to change the lives of many unemployed and underemployed veterans, active-duty members, National Guard and reservists, along with their families will be coming soon to Spokane, Wash.Open to all eligible past and present members of the Armed Forces, the 2013 Hiring Our Heroes

New Unit Effectiveness Inspection process begins with survey

Fairchild Air Force Base members will be asked to fill out a voluntary survey as the first step in the process for the base's Unit Effectiveness Inspection, scheduled to take place Feb. 5-14. The anonymous survey, available now through Dec. 5, provides the opportunity for Fairchild military members,

UCMJ remains strict on drugs

With the successes of Initiative 502 in Washington state and Amendment 64 in Colorado last November, the legal framework of drug use has become decisively more lax.However malleable the legal status of marijuana and other drugs becomes for civilians, the Uniform Code of Military Justice has not

Fairchild holds National Night Out event

A National Night Out celebration was held at Miller Park here Aug. 6. The National Night Out, an annual event held the first Tuesday of August, was created by the National Association of Town Watch in 1984, which made the most recent National Night Out the 30th annual observance. Many members of the

Fairchild hosts Family Recognition Day

Fairchild families are invited to come out and see what Airmen do on a daily basis during a Family Recognition Day at hangars two and four in building 2050 Aug. 19 from 9 a.m. to noon. "The purpose of the event is to allow families a rare opportunity to see what Team Fairchild's Airmen do every