On November 20, 2014 the USAF Police Alumni Association unveiled i's new logo.  The Board of Directors reviewed many submissions.  The final four logo samples were vetted and the final logo was selected.  There is a lot of thought and meaning in the new logo. 

"The concept for this logo was created with the USAF Air Police, Security Police, Security Forces and CATM career fields in mind" said John Shanks, Founder and Co-Chair of the association.  Shanks continued  "We started with the USAF Police Shield which has been the most common symbol of USAF Police.  We then added the globe that signifies the places where USAF Police perform their duties worldwide. Behind the shield and globe is the sky that starts dark representing the night and lightens to the daylight, signifying that USAF Police are on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  We then put all of this into a traditional command crest that USAF Police Forces wore on their berets for decades.  Finally we added our name to complete the logo."

The logo was first introduced to our Facebook members on Nov 20th at 5:00 PM (EST) and  the response was overwhelmingly positive.  More than 100 likes and 20 positive comments were made within the first 45 minutes of being posted.  USAF Police Alumni Association member Randall Conrad was the 100th person to like the new logo and will receive a special gift from the association when the first items are made with the logo on it. 

Within the first hour, CMSgt Lee Beausoleil (USAF retired) who suggested that everyone change their profile picture to the new logo until Monday, Nov 24th.  Immediately people started changing their  profile photo to  the new logo including the entire board of directors.  

Thanks Chief Beausoleil for your wonderful suggestion and your service to this great nation of ours. 

Other comments on the Facebook Page include:  

PH: Very Well Done!  I like it and I'm a Life Member of AFSFA and served in the career field just shy of 30 years. 

DB: Outstanding! Love the design. It will market itself on not only beret crests, but lapel pins/tietacs/hat pins, tshirts, coffee mugs, window stickers, etc.  You are limited to your imagination!

LL:  Now this is Awesome!

JR: Some good ole sp researchers got a great product.

"The association plans to make several logo items available, but it will take some time" said Greg Autry, Co-Chair of the Association."  The Association plans to start with taking orders in early 2015 for one or two items, probably a challenge coin and beret crest for starters.  As the association grows, it will use proceeds from the sale of these items to finance the website and association, but most importantly will create a charitable fund to help families of wounded and fallen USAF Police. 

Please forward this email to anyone who loves  the USAF and USAF Police and encourage your family, friends and colleagues to visit the USAF Police Alumni Association website to learn more about our great career field.

*** The USAF Police Alumni Association is an all inclusive association every individual who has ever served as a USAF Air Policeman, Security Policeman, Security Forces or Combat Arms Maintenance and Training Airman, NCO, Senior NCO or Officer.  Our goal and mission is simple, to protect and preserve the proud history and traditions of the USAF Police career fields and to honor the service and sacrifice of the men and women who have served this great country of ours.  We will maintain an online virtual USAF Police Museum and an online USAF Police Memorial, both can be found at www.usafpolice.org.   

We do not claim to be the only group representing USAF Police and we recognize and honor all groups on Facebook or on the internet that honor USAF Police or any other veteran association.   There is plenty of room for everyone and we appreciate each group for the work they are doing and the time and effort they are putting into representing the largest career field in the United States Air Force. 

God Speed Defenders,  thank you for your service and your dedication to duty.  Semper Defender!

John E. Shanks (USAF retired)
Founder & Co-Chair
USAF Police Alumni Association

** Be sure to sign up for the USAF Police Alumni Association e-newsletter.  The sign-up form can be found on our homepage. 

The USAF Police Alumni Association is honored to have added four brave airman to the USAF Police Alumni Association on-line Memorial. These four Security Police Airmen died in a helicopter crash near Whiteman AFB, Missouri.

On June 11, 1982, Whiteman AFB, lost six Airmen after their UH-1F Iroquois helicopter crashed in a rural area 30 miles south of Kansas City.

The two pilots from Detachment 9 of the 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery squadron, and four security policemen, from the 352nd Missile Security Squadron were providing security for a routine Air Force convoy transporting weapons system from Whiteman to a launch silo near Passaic, Mo. At the time, the UH-1 helicopter was one of four assigned to a military unit responsible of monitoring 50 of the Whiteman area missile silos.

See the airman's pictures at www.usafpolice.org/memorial.html

Read the whole story at http://www.usafpolice.org/charlie-fire-team-whiteman-afb-mo…

SAN ANTONIO (MCT) -- The Security Forces Museum in San Antonio is modest and obscure, but when word got out that the Air Force had abruptly closed it, thousands of people around the country cried out in protest. Read More >

9/30/2014 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- The 375th Security Forces Squadron began utilizing 20 newly trained augmentees at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois last week. Read More >

9/17/2014 - The Air Force is putting its money where its mouth is: Beginning Oct. 1, officers and enlisted personnel in its beleaguered nuclear missile force will get new financial incentives of up to $300 per month.

The move is part of the service’s effort to change the culture for personnel who operate some of the world’s most dangerous weapons, following a cheating scandal that embarrassed the Air Force earlier this year. Air Force Secretary Deborah James announced them Monday at the Air Force Association’s annual Air and Space Conference.

The move isn’t unexpected, but reaffirms that James and other senior Air Force leaders were serious about altering the way an assignment in the nuclear missile force is perceived by rank-and-file personnel. Air Force officials said in January that dozens of officers overseeing nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana had been caught either cheating on a monthly launch proficiency test, or knew others who had and did not report them. At least 82 ultimately received some form of discipline.

In the weeks afterward, James and Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson, chief of Global Strike Command, promised to do whatever they could to restore trust with the missileers. Many of them felt that their job, once high-profile during the Cold War, was now unappreciated. James touched on that again in announcing the incentives.

“People assigned to these demanding and exclusive nuclear positions take on an extraordinary amount of responsibility, workload and inspection rigor for the world’s most lethal weapons,” James said. “The nuclear mission is our number one mission and we’re going to compensate our airmen accordingly.”

The so-called Force Improvement Plan launched following the scandal also has scrutinized bomber squadrons and nuclear security forces units, which guard silos across the Midwest where the nuclear missiles are kept and manned.

In another change, the Air Force said recently that the security forces will get new camouflage uniforms, cold-weather equipment and “personal protective equipment that has been redesigned with the missile field mission in mind.” Rank-and-file airmen requested them, along with an upgraded fleet of vehicles that would be safer and more comfortable on the narrow, icy roads around missile sites. The vehicle request is still under review.

 

Article by: Dan Lamothe http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/09/17/following-scandal-air-force-sets-incentive-pay-for-nuclear-missile-force/