U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet AIR FORCE PUBLIC AFFAIRS AGENCY     With today’s demanding and dynamic information environment, the role of AFPAA is to provide the Air Force with an agile and responsive public affairs capability, including combat camera and visual information services. Mission With today's demanding and dynamic information environment, the role of AFPAA is to provide the Air Force with an agile and responsive public affairs capability, including combat camera and visual information services. This capability includes the agency's media center, which archives and distributes Air Force imagery. Additionally, AFPAA provides policy and oversight for the Air Force's online presence through social media and the public website program. The organization runs the service's only full-time trademark and licensing office, protecting the official Air Force marks and earning royalties that help fund support programs for Airmen and their families. The agency has representatives from all specialties within the public affairs career field, including bandsmen who arrange music for Air Force regional bands around the world. Airmen at AFPAA provide career field support through the development of training curricula and requirements for the Air Force's nearly 6,000 public affairs practitioners. Finally, AFPAA oversees the Air Force command information program and coordinates Air Force strategic themes and messages in public affairs products and services. Organization AFPAA exercises operational control over the Air Force's three combat camera squadrons, responsible for providing documentation of Air Force missions across the spectrum from joint warfighter operations to humanitarian relief, as well as providing audiovisual production support to units throughout the Air Force. The agency also operates one Pentagon-based field office charged with covering news stories on Air Force-level topics, policy and leadership. The agency provides administrative and logistical support to three additional field offices operating from locations in New York City, N.Y., Los Angeles, Calif., and Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. History The Air Force Public Affairs Agency is rooted in a separate operating agency activated June 1, 1978, as the Air Force Service Information and News Center. On April 1, 1990, AFSINC was redesignated as the Air Force News Center and became a field operating agency on February 5, 1991. It was redesignated once again to the Air Force News Agency on Aug. 1, 1991, before its final redesignation to AFPAA on Oct. 1, 2008. Air Force Public Affairs Agency, 2261 Hughes Ave Ste 157, Lackland AFB, Texas, 78236-9853; DSN 969-1775 or (310) 395-1775.