• Air Force to change enlisted evaluations, promotions

    Air Force officials announced a series of sweeping changes to the Enlisted Evaluation System and Weighted Airman Promotion System July 31.The changes are intended to ensure the Air Force truly makes job performance the driving factor and will be implemented incrementally beginning in August 2014 and

  • Honoring VJ Day

    For nearly four years, the 4th Fighter Group, now known as the 4th Fighter Wing, participated in one of the largest wars in American history; World War II. As a key air component in the European campaign, the group was instrumental in the accomplishments of several important strategic victories,

  • Goldsboro to recognize the Purple Hearts of Seymour Johnson

    Three active-duty Airmen from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, among others, will be honored at the Annual Purple Heart Banquet, Aug. 7, 2014, at the First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina.The event will also honor 52 other service members from Eastern North

  • SJ prepares for 2nd Annual Combat Dining-In

    A treacherous course awaits you; lined with gun yielding assailants attempting to annihilate you. The bravest make it through the gauntlet, only to be greeted by a herd of incoming projectile weaponry.What may seem like an impossible task of advanced combat training is nothing of the such. The

  • Base housing prepares to implement new utility conservation program

    Corvias Military Living, the Air Force's housing partner at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, recently installed electric and gas meters to houses on the installation.The meters are the first step of a new utility conservation program that is being implemented at every military

  • Three-war veteran recognized, honored nearly 60 years after service

    "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." - Leo TolstoyRetired Air Force Staff Sgt. Elbert Scott knows about patience and time. He also knows what it takes to be a warrior.Having fought in World War II as well as the Korean and Vietnam Wars, Scott has outlasted Tolstoy's two biggest

  • 'Fourth but First' airpower key to Korean Armistice

    The legacy of the 4th Fighter Wing extends to most major military events in recent American history.During World War II, its aircraft led the charge on the beaches of Normandy, enabling hundreds of thousands of troops to successfully accomplish Operation Overlord on what historians would later refer