AFMentor and From The Inside Newsletter

The close of 2007 brought a lot of changes to the sites.  Most notably was the success of AFWriting.com from the previous years release and the new release of AFEPRBullets.com.

The site traffic has more than doubled again from last year.  Last year we seen well over 20M hits, 148% increase from 2006.  Where as 2006 seen a 200% increase from 2005.  We expect 2008 to be another great year of growth.  Along the same lines of continue growth, we are continually receiving praise, recommendation and critiques' from throughout the Air Force.  From Airmen to Chief and even a couple of group commanders, the focus on our Corps is paramount.

With the close of the year there are a couple of awards to be announced.  First, the award drive that ended 31 Dec 07 was won by BED with 7 submissions in doing so,  BED won a $15 Amazon Gift Certificate.  Next, CAD submitted the most items for 2007 with 16 and won a $30 Amazon Gift Certificate, a 1 yr AFSA membership, and The Three Meter Zone: Common Sense Leadership for NCOs.  COOP1167 contributed the most bullets ending December 31, 2007 with 105; a $30 Amazon Gift Certificate will be sent this month. "crow" placed second with 67 bullets and will receive a $15 Amazon Gift Certificate this month.  Finally, acnwgirl placed third with 60 bullets and will receive $10 Amazon Gift Certificate.

For those of you that regularly monitor the site you may have noticed the lack of continual updates like previously.  I have recently changed jobs and do not have the same amount of time I used to have that I would dedicate to the website.  I and the team of reviewers still focus constantly on any award or epr/opr packages we get for review, but the shear number of updates cannot be kept up.  This also reflects on the newsletter.  Prior, it was being accomplished monthly, but that too has been impossible to keep up.  We are scaling it back to a quarterly newsletter (more often as time permits)

Just a reminder, the team here is available to review your award/EPR/package and provide honest feedback in the last month we have reviewed 13 award packages. Feel free to send them to review@fromtheinside.us due to upcoming annual award reviews, it might take a day or so to get them back to you.  Please plan accordingly. (We don't post anything without the submitters' approval). Looking around the web, there isn't another site offering as many writing examples for military members to examine and draw from nor offering them free of charge. Our goal is to provide modern examples, and to help as many people as possible to become better writers. The only way to do this is with help from you. Please submit your examples: Old, New, Good, and/or Bad it does not matter, the service provided to your peers is priceless.

As a reminder, the image database at http://www.afmentor.com/multi-media/images/ (Username: newsletter & Password: afmentor) has seen additional images posted on it.  The intent of this image database is for Air Force members to quickly locate some of the more common images, AF Symbol, Wing Shields, Rank graphics, etc. If you have anything you would like to submit, upload yourself or send them to through the submission link and we will post them for you. finally, if you would like your own account please let me know and I will create it for you.

Finally, you will find a informative mentoring moment at the end of this newsletter...  This one too is out side of the box from normal mentoring moments, but in the recent months and the upcoming recognition months I felt compelled towrite it.  You will find it in at the bottom of this newsletter.
 

Current Enlisted Promotion Line Numbers - Jan 08

Just a Few of the New Links

AF Award Timelines!

Pages

Military Multi-Media Files

Docs/Slides/Stuff

2008 Basic Military Pay Chart

AF Form 910 (New)