AFSA Chapter 985

Chapter 985 members, your 29 January weekly newsletter from HQ is available with a lot of good information and links to articles you may find beneficial. Please take a few minutes to look it over, and let me know if you need or want further information on any of the topics.

I hope you had a nice, safe, long snow weekend, and hope the roads are safe this week.

The 22 January weekly newsletter from AFSA HQ is available. Please take a few minutes to see what our leaders have been doing to represent us, and what our association is doing for the community.  Thank you to those who have contacted me to renew their membership, or to rejoin. Don’t forget, the application deadline for the chapter’s education grants is approaching rapidly. The application instructions are on the left, as well as a link for the Div 89 scholarship applications, and in this week’s newsletter has information about the AFSA scholarship programs.

You can’t win if you don’t submit an application!

Chapter members, your 15 January weekly newsletter from AFSA HQ is here for your viewing pleasure.

Many of  you have heard me speak about the very small number of paid staff AFSA employs, and what they do. You have also heard me say that our lobbyists, president, and CEO educate our elected representatives about the needs and desires of the Air Force’ enlisted force. The first few paragraphs of the newsletter will demonstrate how respected our staff is among Air Force leaders.  Not only are they teaching those on Capitol Hill about our needs, they are educating Air Force leaders about hot-button topics on Capitol Hill. No other professional organization has the impact of AFSA in making sure our quality of life benefits are protected and enhanced. Membership fees are a very small price to pay for what they do and we need to increase our membership to ensure the continued operations of the association. Contact me if your membership is about to expire, you’re not sure when it is going to expire, or has already expired, and I will help you remain a member, or regain your membership. It is more important now than ever!

Enjoy MLK day and have a productive week.

The 3 December weekly AFSA newsletter is available. Congress is back to work, so we’ll see more legislative information next week. While the newsletter may be short, it is packed with great information. Check out the 4 Keys to Being A Successful Airman: by Lt Col Mickle. This really struck home for me since I found so many Airmen in Afghanistan that didn’t know what their mission was, or why they were there, and his comments about Airmen facing punishment; good stuff.

Are you an Air Force Times subscriber? If so, renew your subscription and tell them you’re an AFSA member. You’ll get 27% off and AFSA will get $5 for each subscription!

Your 20 November weekly AFSA newsletter is available. One note of local interest is the comment about CMSgt Jim Pepin, a former Chapter 985 President who was recently selected to be the Vice Commandant, CCAF. Congratulations Chief! He will be just the second Chief to hold this position, normally held by a senior AF officer.

Have a wonderful and safe week, and enjoy your Thanksgiving!

Chapter members, here is the 23 October weekly AFSA newsletter. Please look it over all the way to the bottom.

The first article involves our very own Chief Hartsook who is now a Command Chief at Andrews AFB.  There is some promising legislation mentioned as well as information on some very important topics. Guard and Reserve members should be particularly interested in S. 1780 and 1798.

Have a great week, and kick butt next week!

Chapter 985 members, here is the 16 October weekly AFSA newsletter. Please look it over all the way to the bottom. There are some links to very interesting articles and stories that might interest you. As always, please let us know if you contact your Government Official(s) on key issues that are important to you and if we can be of any assistance. If you have any comments or concerns please send them to vp@afsa985.org. Thanks for all your support for AFSA and have a great week.

Chapter 985 members, here is the 9 October weekly AFSA newsletter. Please look it over all the way to the bottom. There are some links to very interesting articles and stories that might interest you. As always, please let us know if you contact your Government Official(s) on key issues that are important to you and if we can be of any assistance. If you have any comments or concerns please send them to vp@afsa985.org. Thanks for all your support for AFSA and have a great week.

A message from the newest Air Force Sergeants Association Active Duty Affairs Trustee:

I’d like to start by saying thanks to those of you who have registered on the new AFSA Active Duty Forums website. I feel that this will be a valuable tool that provides information to both members and non-members alike (and will especially be a great recruiting tool for our future members). In order to make this work for us, I am hoping to let all active duty enlisted members know about the forums; here is where I need your assistance and expertise.

Division Presidents: Now is the time to start promoting this website; therefore, please have your chapter presidents (CPs) forward the site address (http://afsaadaffairs.org/index.php) to all of their members. Additionally, please encourage CPs with chapters on military installations to help us inform all their active duty folks (including non-AFSA members) about the site. The best way for them to do this is to disseminate the info through all enlisted leader/pro org channels on the installation (i.e. Shirt’s Council, Chief’s Group, TOP 3, 5/6, Airman’s Council, etc.). My goal is to have at least 1,000 active duty enlisted Airmen registered on the forums by the next PAC. Wouldn’t this be an awesome achievement for our Association? [Read more →]

Chapter 985 members, here is the 2 October weekly AFSA newsletter. Please look it over all the way to the bottom. There are some links to very interesting articles and stories that might interest you. As always, please let us know if you contact your Government Official(s) on key issues that are important to you and if we can be of any assistance. If you have any comments or concerns please do not respond to this email, send replies to vp@afsa985.org. Thanks for all your support for AFSA and have a great week.