Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, and CMSAF James Cody continued their campaign to reinvigorate the service’s core values through a video message to airmen. “Our core values are our first principles, and they guide everything we do, on and off duty, at home, in the office, and on the battlefield,” said James in an April 2 release. The core values: integrity, service before self, and excellence in all we do “are more than just slogans,” said Welsh. “We must have an inner drive for continuous improvement, a drive that propels us as individuals and as a force into an upward spiral of performance and accomplishment,” added Cody.
Maintainers will soon be allowed to wear shorts, under new rules aimed at giving Airmen and Guardians more wiggle room when it comes to uniform regulations. The Department of the Air Force on March 15 will publish “an interim change to Air Force Instruction 36-2903”—which governs dress and appearance for…