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  • AFAS to award more than $6 million in annual grants, scholarships

    The Air Force Aid Society will award more than $6 million in Gen. Henry Hap Arnold education grants and AFAS merit scholarships to the dependents of active duty and retired Airmen.  A total of 2,556 college and university students will receive the education grants and merit-based scholarships,

  • Retired Airman Meets Biological Sister at DoD Warrior Games

    Medically retired Air Force Senior Airman Karah Behrend won gold medals in discus and shot put so far at the 2018 Defense Department Warrior Games, but she received her biggest thrill by a first-time meeting with her biological sister, Crystal Boyd.

  • 2018 AF Warrior Games team announced

    The U.S. Air Force Wounded Warrior Program (AFW2) is proud to announce the 2018 Air Force Warrior Games team. Forty primary and ten alternates were selected by a team of coaches and staff at the 5th Annual Air Force Trials on Nellis, AFB, in late February. The 40-person team will go on to compete at

  • Get ready for 2018 Invictus Games

    It's time to start gearing up for the 2018 Invictus Games application process. Applications will open in January and will close out on March 1st.

  • AFW2 talks program at A/TA Convention

    Steve Nelson, Air Force Wounded Warrior Program (AFW2) Outreach Coordinator, talks to Airmen attending the 2017 Airlift/Tanker Association convention in Orlando, Florida. The convention is an annual event featuring a technology exposition and symposiums for ATA and Air Mobility Command. The team

  • Invisible wounds: Finding a voice

    Air Force leadership and wounded warriors came together to speak out on invisible wounds during a panel discussion at this year’s Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference, Sept. 18, 2017.

  • Through tragedy, loss, amputation, Airman learns ‘new norm’

    “My leg looked like a boomerang.”Those were the words of Staff Sgt. August O’Niell, an Air Force pararescueman, to members of the Air Force Technical Applications Center when the combat warrior visited the base to discuss resiliency during the center’s Combat Airman Fitness Day.

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