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Russian forces in initial phase of invasion of Ukraine, official says Jim Garamone DOD NEWS

Russian forces are in the initial phase of the invasion of Ukraine and attacking through three corridors, a senior defense official said today on background.

There is fighting within 20 miles of the center of Kyiv — the Ukrainian capital — as well as fighting around the eastern city of Kharkiv and in the southern part of the beleaguered country, the official said. “These three axes are … clearly designed to take key population centers,” he said.

“It’s our assessment that [Russian forces] have every intention of basically, decapitating the government and installing their own method of governance, which would explain these early moves towards Kyiv,” the official said.

The assault started in darkness this morning, Ukrainian time, with a Russian missile barrage of around 100 intermediate-range, short-range and cruise missiles, the official said. Missiles came from land, sea and air platforms.

The Russians used roughly 75 fixed-wing, heavy and medium bombers as a part of their assault. The targets were primarily military bases and

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Part of a Russian army column is seen Wednesday in Neklinovka, Russia, close to the border with Ukraine. air defense nodes. He had no estimate of casualties.

Following these attacks, Russian land forces moved into Ukraine.

The official said Ukrainian forces are resisting the invasion and fighting back but would not give specifics.

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Fighters will arrive in Estonia, Lithuania and Romania today. Apache helicopters deploying to the Baltic republics and Poland from Germany and Greece are experiencing some weather-related problems, but should arrive shortly, the official said.

Ukrainians are already fleeing their country and the official said there has been an increase in the number of people crossing Ukraine’s borders into Western countries.

DOD officials have been saying for weeks that Russian President Vladimir Putin could launch this strike into Ukraine. The official said Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine even as diplomatic options remained. Putin bears the responsibility for this unprovoked aggression and the deaths, casualties and destruction can be laid at his feet, the official said.

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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Chase Smith, 8th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, marshals a K-loader toward a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, at Travis Air Force Base, Feb. 14. U.S. Airmen with the 60th Aerial Port Squadron and 8th Airlift Squadron loaded cargo to the C-17. K-loaders are used

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to transport cargo into and out of aircraft. Under the direction of U.S. Under the direction of U.S. Transportation Command, the 60th Air Mobility Wing supported the 621st Contingency Response Wing during the movement of security assistance cargo to Ukraine via commercial cargo aircraft.

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Putin declares war. What is behind the invasion?

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has sparked one of the biggest security crises in Europe since World War II by invading Ukraine, with barrages of missiles and artillery accompanying troops as they entered the country from multiple directions.

Putin said he acted to protect civilians in separatist regions from Ukraine’s military, though there was no evidence they were under any threat. The U.S. and

European allies had warned for weeks that their intelligence showed Moscow planned to create a false justification for war.

Ukraine’s government called Russia’s actions a “full-scale invasion” and imposed martial law across the country. Ukraine’s Interior Ministry urged citizens to go to shelters, saying the capital, Kyiv, was being targeted.

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He has offered a litany of complaints about the security risks to Russia of further NATO expansion and made the case that Ukraine was “completely created” out of land from the former Russian empire during the Soviet Union’s formation. The implication was that he sees himself as on a historical mission to undo wrongs inflicted by Lenin’s Bolsheviks.

Q. Is Ukraine part of NATO? A. Ukraine is not part of NATO, but some member nations have supplied weapons to help in its defense. The U.S. and NATO have said they would not

From Page 4 necessary after the U.S. and its allies crossed Russia’s “red lines” by expanding NATO. He also claimed Russia doesn’t plan to “occupy” Ukraine.

NATO describes itself as a defensive alliance that poses no threat to Russia.

The Russian leader made other unsupported claims in his speech, saying the goal of the operation was the “demilitarization” of Ukraine.

Q. Why does Russia want Ukraine?

A. Putin, a former KGB agent who was stationed in East

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NATO was founded in 1949 to protect Europe against Soviet attack during the Cold War and has come to symbolize the transatlantic alliance based on shared values. The pledge of collective defense, spelled out in Article 5 of the NATO treaty, established that an attack against one NATO member is considered an attack against all of them, increasing the risks for any potential aggressor. However, that does not apply to non-member Ukraine.

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Air Force announces officer performance report static closeout dates, beginning October 2022 Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs WASHINGTON — The Air Force is taking another major step in a series of transformations within its officer evaluation system with the implementation of officer performance report (OPR) static closeout dates (SCODs) for officers in the grades of O-1 to O-6.

“As we continue to fully execute Action Order A (Airmen), implementing officer static closeout dates is key to ensuring transparency and consistency are cornerstones of our feedback and evaluation systems,” said Lt. Gen. Brian Kelly, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services.

“SCODs deliver improved predictability to our officers, raters, and units, while also providing a synchronized comparison of performance within peer groups.

This arms officers with a more complete understanding of their performance assessment, their strengths and weaknesses, and where they stand among their peers. This is essential to ensure we give airmen an opportunity to fully develop to their capabilities and excel at the airmen Leadership Qualities they’ll need to be successful in the future.”

The implementation of officer SCODs will occur in phases for Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard airmen.

In developing solutions that best support the Air Force’s talent management strategy, transitioning from non-standardized annual and change of reporting official (CRO) OPR closeout policies to SCODs increases transparency by ensuring stable, steady, and reliable assessments from senior raters and rating chains.

Additionally, consistent

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The implementation of officer SCODs will occur in phases for Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard airmen. The first SCOD for officers will begin with first and second lieutenants on Oct. 31, 2022, followed by colonels on Feb. 28, 2023, lieutenant colonels and majors on May 31, 2023, and captains on Aug. 31, 2023. All SCODs will repeat annually thereafter. Those in a promotion-select status will align their OPR with the SCOD of their selected grade. predictability of evaluations for airmen and leadership helps reduce current administrative burdens of evaluation tracking and timing. The transition to officer SCODs fully aligns all airmen – officers, enlisted, and civilians – with steady evaluation and appraisal timelines across the calendar year.

After carefully studying various implementation options, Air Force leaders established the officer SCOD schedule to integrate with the existing enlisted evaluation and civilian appraisal

closeout periods to improve evaluation planning and tracking across the Air Force. Additionally, the selected approach minimizes excessive exceptions to policies or undue workload shifts, while still delivering relevant officer performance data to a variety of talent management selection boards.

“While many talent management factors related to close out dates were considered and we optimized recency of the close out date to associated promotion boards, we also recognize no

SCOD date is 100% perfect, but we believe the established dates provide the best options for our Air Force considering all factors,” said Kelly.

Like the enlisted SCOD policy, officer SCOD OPRs will use accounting dates to establish the officer’s assigned unit and the rating chain responsible for processing and signing the evaluation on the SCOD. Accounting dates will be approximately 120 calendar days before each SCOD and established as the third day of the month (like

enlisted airmen) in order to provide consistency across all evaluation accounting dates.

The implementation of officer SCODs will occur in phases for Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard airmen. The first SCOD for officers will begin with first and second lieutenants on Oct. 31, 2022, followed by colonels on Feb. 28, 2023, lieutenant colonels and majors on May 31, 2023, and captains on Aug. 31, 2023.

All SCODs will repeat annually thereafter. Those in a promotion-select status will align their OPR with the SCOD of their selected grade.

Similar to the enlisted transition to SCODs, the Air Force developed an officer transition plan that provides accelerated and equitable steps to begin the first SCOD for each grade.

The transition plan ensures no officer’s first SCOD OPR is less than six-month reporting period or exceeds a 16-month reporting period. The transition plan standardizes reporting periods during the SCOD implementation for each grade and maximizes equitable time to assess all officers’ performance before the first SCOD. For Regular Air Force colonel-selects and majorselects who already met promotion boards in 2021, AFPC will provide special instructions to ensure that all promotion-select officer evaluations closeout with equitable reporting periods.

Introducing SCODs into the officer evaluation system also eliminates the need for CRO evaluations. CRO evaluations will be eliminated in phases for each grade several months prior to the occurrence of their first SCOD. This change eliminates the need for nearly 29,000 airmen CRO reports annually and removes the unscheduled

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Air Force to phase out 13O career field, strengthen all airmen joint capabilities Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs

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In developing solutions that best support the Air Force’s talent management strategy, transitioning from non-standardized annual and change of reporting official (CRO) OPR closeout policies to SCODs increases transparency by ensuring stable, steady, and reliable assessments from senior raters and rating chains.

Officer From Page 8 workload associated with CRO evaluations.

Officer SCODs further eliminate the need to maintain other legacy evaluation products like education & training reports (TRs) and letters of evaluation (LOEs), as the Air Force transitions to a more agile and digital data-based evaluation system. Instead, the new myEvaluation (myEval) application will include a feature called “Education & Training Input,” that will be used to document academic and

FEMA From Page 6 John R. Evans Jr., U.S. Army North commander, in a news release Feb. 3. “We are proud of the role our military teams play in multiple medical centers supporting FEMA and the whole-of-government response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Department of Defense is only one of

training accomplishments on the SCOD OPR. “SCODs allow us to further strengthen the effectiveness of recent changes to our officer evaluation system, similar to the new officer stratification guidance and Airman Leadership Qualities announced last year,” said Col. Laura King, the director of the Air Force talent management innovation cell. “With SCODs, officers receive clearer feedback and are given a more complete understanding of where they stand amongst their peers. Key talent management decision bodies, like promotion selection boards, also become more informed with a consistent

delineation of performance documented within officers’ records.”

When airmen transition to the new officer SCODs process, the Space Force will maintain current evaluation policy and will not implement the Air Force changes while they continue to develop their new performance appraisal system.

Additional information and indepth articles on each of the major changes will be released prior to each program’s implementation.

For more information go to myPers > Officer > Evaluations pages for each Active Duty AF, Air Reserve, and Air National Guard.

the several federal agencies to provide such assistance.”

The Department of Defense is beginning support in California, Connecticut, Louisiana and Oklahoma, and expanding support to Michigan and New York.

In California, one 15-person team from the Air Force will support Emanate Health Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina.

In Connecticut, three 15-person teams from the Air Force will

support Saint Francis Hospital and Hartford Hospital in Hartford and Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven.

In Louisiana, two 15-person teams from the Air Force will support St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe.

In Michigan, one 20-person team from the Army will support Sparrow Hospital in Lansing. This

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WASHINGTON (AFNS) — The Department of the Air Force announced Feb. 17, the Multi-Domain Warfare Officer (13O) career field will be phased out while emphasizing that multi-domain capabilities will become fundamental across the Air Force.

This phase out impacts 136 currently-assigned Total Force airmen in the active component, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve.

“We must be prepared to face future conflicts with our joint and combined partners, and the knowledge MultiDomain Warfare Officers bring to the fight is too critical to confine to a single career field,” said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. “To continue outpacing nearpeer adversaries, we must reinforce all Air Force members’ multi-domain expertise.”

The Air Force will continue to evolve its professional education and force structure to ensure all airmen can apply operational concepts and contribute to Joint AllDomain Operations, versus limiting it to one core AFSC. The transition will begin after eligible officers meet the LAF-X Colonel central selection board March 29 – April 14, 2022. Commanders will guide Multi-Domain Warfare Officers through the reassignment process. Officers trained in multi-domain warfare gained valuable experience in all-domain and joint planning capabilities which will be leveraged at all levels of training and professional military education to strengthen enterprise-wide capabilities.

“We want to utilize the depth of knowledge and experience that our Multi-Domain Warfare Officers bring to the fight and to the maximum extent possible need their help to train and educate airmen to fight and win against a peer threat in all domains,” said Maj. Gen. Albert G. Miller, director of Training and Readiness, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at Headquarters U.S. Air Force.

Air Education and Training Command, the lead for Professional Military Education, plans to implement principles of the current Multi-Domain Warfare Initial Skills Training into Air Force-wide developmental education. This will increase the operational knowledge and expertise required to produce joint-capable and credible airmen.

The Multi-Domain Warfare Officer (13O) career field was established June 25, 2018, as a result of the MultiDomain Command and Control Implementation Plan to train operational-level C2 personnel specialized in executing command and control of multi-domain operations.

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Black History Month: An airman’s story of resilience and courage Video by Chustine Minoda/ 60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs

Far left: A still from the video on U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Terrell Cole.

Left: A still from the video on U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Terrell Cole, whose great grandfather Marvin Logan participated in the invasion of Normandy in WWII and was wounded in battle.

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Terrell Cole, 60th Maintenance Group facility manager, shares his personal story in celebration of Black History Month at Travis Air Force Base, California, Feb. 10, 2022.

Cole shared his family’s history,

including family members who survived the Elaine Massacre and those who served in the Civil War, World War II and Vietnam War. Travis AFB honors Black History Month by highlighting the resilience, achievements and stories of our Black airmen.

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For advertising information about this directory, call Classifieds at 707-427-6973 or email: cgibbs@dailyrepublic.net ASSEMBLY OF GOD

BAPTIST

First Assembly Of God Lead Pastor: C. Eric Lura

*Nursery Care Provided

425-3612

707

2207 UNION AVE., FAIRFIELD

www.1agff.org email: info@1agff.org Live Stream on:

1405 Kentucky Street Fairfield, CA 94533 Rev. Dr. Terry Long, Pastor

Sunday

Sunday School: 11:00 a.m.

Morning Worship Service: 12:00 p.m.

Children’s Church: 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday

Prayer Meeting: 6:30-7:00 p.m.

Bible Study: 7:00-8:00 p.m.

Web Site: www.stpaulfairfield.org Email: stpaulbcfairfield@comcast.net Church Phone: 707-422-2003

BAPTIST

CHURCH OF CHRIST

LUTHERAN

CHURCH of CHRIST Meets at

Worship With Us… St. Paul Baptist Church

of Fairfield

•9:15 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL •10:30 AM * MORNING WORSHIP •KID’z CHURCH Grades K-5th •10:00 AM WEDNESDAY SENIOR PRAYER • 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY NIGHT Adult Bible Study Girl’s Club Royal Rangers Revolution Youth

BAPTIST

Rockville Cemetery Stone Chapel

4221 Suisun Valley Rd, Fairfield

Live stream at: itsallaboutfamilies.org 301 N. Orchard Ave., Vacaville 707.448.5848 SUNDAY Classes for all ages.......... 10:00 am Worship ..............................11:00 am CORE Bible Studies 12:30 & 5:00 pm

(2nd & 4th Sunday)

WEDNESDAY Adult Studies........................2:00 pm AWANA for Kids ..................6:15 pm Adult & Youth Studies.........6:30 pm

CHURCH OF CHRIST

9:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Bible Study 9:50 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship 5:30 p.m. Sunday Evening Bible Study 7:00 p.m. Wednesday Evening Bible Study We welcome and encourage you to come and hear the good news of the gospel of Christ, and to learn about eternal salvation for all mankind that is offered through Jesus.

“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 Bring a heart and mind willing to hear God’s Word and to do His great will...

For more information or directions, please visit our website at www.rockvillecofc.com

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST

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MOUNT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH Dr. Claybon Lea, Jr. - Senior Pastor Fairfield Campus 1735 Enterprise Drive, Bldg. 3 Fairfield, CA 94533 Sunday Worship Services 7:00am & 9:30am.

Bible Study Tuesdays @ 7:00pm (Youth Sanctuary) Suisun Campus 601 Whispering Bay Lane, Suisun City, CA 94585 Sunday Worship Services, 11:00am Bible Study Tuesdays @ 12:00noon 707-425-1849

www.mcbcfs.org for more information Live Stream on:

First Baptist Church of Vacaville

Fairfield Stake Center 2700 Camrose Ave.

The All Together Different Church

Sacrament Services Sunday 1000 and 1200

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707-448-6209 www.fbcvv.com

Sunday Morning Worship 10AM

Base Sacrament Services DGMC Chapel or North Courtyard (1st Floor North entrance) Sunday 1600-1630 Inquires: Call LDS Military Relations Missionaries 707-535-6979

9:30 am Sunday 310 Parker Street Vacaville, CA 95688

Visit sonrise-vv.org for info

AIR FORCE

February 25, 2022

FEMA From Page 9 team will join two teams currently supporting Saginaw and Wyandotte.

In New York, two 15-person teams from the Air Force will support the State University of New York Upstate Medical University Hospital in Syracuse and two 15-person teams from the Air Force will support the University of Rochester Medical Center–Strong Memorial Hospital in

Rochester. These four teams join three teams currently supporting Brooklyn, the Bronx and Buffalo.

In Oklahoma, two 15-person teams from the Air Force will support Integris Baptist Medical Center and one 20-person team from the Army will support OU Health – University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City.

In addition to the aforementioned teams and locations, the joint Department of Defense effort currently includes seventeen teams working in 14 states - one in Arizona, one in Indiana, one in Maine,

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one in Maryland, one in Minnesota, one in Missouri, one in New Hampshire, one in New Jersey, two in New Mexico, two in Ohio, two in Pennsylvania, one in Rhode Island, one in Texas, one in Wisconsin and one team in the Navajo Nation.

U.S. Army North, under U.S. Northern Command’s oversight, provides operational command of the teams.

On Dec. 30, 2021, the Secretary of Defense approved the activation of 1,000 military medical personnel to support the federal Covid-19 response mission. Five hundred of the 1,000 were made available

to support requests for federal support on Jan. 15, 2022. The other 500 became available at the end of the month.

These 1,000 personnel join approximately 400 other military medical personnel, previously activated to provide assistance to civilian hospitals.

All of the personnel announced today are from the recently assigned additional forces. In total, more than 495 of the 1,000 additional forces are supporting or will soon support hospitals.

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

UNITED METHODIST “The People of The United Methodist Church™”

“To know Him, and to make Him known” 490 Brown Street Vacaville, CA 95688 707-446-8684 Sunday Services: Sunday School 9:45am Morning Worship 11am Evening Worship 5pm

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

1875 Fairfield Avenue, Fairfield

Phone: 707-426-2944

info@cumcfairfieldca.org cumcfairfieldca.org YouTube CUMC Fairfield Facebook @cumcfairfieldca

Pastor Anne Choy

Thursday Service: Prayer Meeting 7pm

Online & In-Person Worship 10:15 a.m.

www.vacavillebiblechurch.com office@vacavillebiblechurch.com Live Stream on:

Communion 1st Sundays Adult and Bell Choirs • Adult Classes Ukulele Group United Methodist Women United Methodist Men Sunday School for Children

Bible Studies throughout the week Pastor Ben Smith

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NON-DENOMINATIONAL

UNITY

Vacaville Church of Christ 401 Fir St., Vacaville, CA 95688 (707) 448-5085 Minister: Elliott Williams

A Passion to...

Worship God • Love People • Share Christ

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• Nursery + Children’s Classes • Youth Ministries • Men’s & Women’s Bible Studies • PrimeTimers (Seniors Ministry) • In Home Mid-Week Bible Studies • Celebrate Recovery Sean Peters, Lead Pastor

707-446-9838

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Register children for Sunday School at cccv.me

Bible-Based Expository Preaching Sunday Worship Services 9:00 & 10:45 AM Pastor Jon Kile 192 Bella Vista Road, Vacaville 707-451-2026 Sunday school for all ages is provided during both services.

Visit our website for information on other ministries offered at

www.vacavillefaith.org

The Father’s House 4800 Horse Creek Drive Vacaville, CA 95688 (707) 455-7790 www.tfh.org Service Times Sunday: 9am & 11am Live Stream at tfhvacaville tfhvacaville

tfhvacaville

Sunday Morning Bible Study 9:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 AM Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 PM Wed. Evening Bible Study 7:00 PM

www.vacavillecofc.com

If you would like to take a free Bible correspondence course contact: Know Your Bible Program 401 Fir Street • Vacaville, CA 95688 (707) 448-5085

Celebrating our oneness, honoring our diversity

350 N. Orchard Ave, Vacaville – 447-0521 unityvv@pacbell.net www.unityvacaville.org Sunday Morning

10 am In Person & Online

Non-Denominational Meditation Time

Available Continuously Online

Come Home to Unity It’s Like Blue Jeans for the Soul Affiliated with publisher of Daily Word©

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PARTING SHOTS

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All-Black crew go on flight in recognition of

BLACK HISTORY

Senior Airman Karla Parra/U.S. Air Force

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kamron Cuff, left, 9th Air Refueling Squadron boom operator, and Airman 1st Class Elijah Sheppard, 660th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, watch a KC-10 Extender detach from the boom over Northern California, Feb. 15. Cuff and Sheppard

were two of a fifteen crew member heritage flight, honoring Black service members and aviators. The U.S. Congress passed Public Law 99-244 designating each February as “National Black (Afro-American) History Month” Feb. 11, 1986.

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