Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians

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  • We will never forget ...

    I, Sarah Anne Carter ...The pictures are considered stock photography by most news organizations now. News organizations use the photos today to emphasize a news event, usually involving terrorism or, most recently, the release of the report about how U.S. intelligence acted prior to that day.

  • Be safe this Labor Day holiday

    I want to thank each of you for your hard work and dedication in providing support to the Global War on Terrorism during the past months. Long duty hours and deployments require the best from all of us, and you have proven you are up to the task. As the end of summer nears, Labor Day weekend

  • Don't let "tunnel vision" cripple the mission

    When the Air Force sent me to Southwest Asia last year, I began telling my 3-year-old son, Jonathan, he would need to be the man of the house while I was gone. I remember him swelling with pride when I would tell him he would be responsible to take care of his mom and two sisters and "take up the

  • Force protection is everyone's business

    Attacks on our homeland on Sept. 11, 2001, brought home to Americans that the United States is not an island free from attack.Terrorism can be brought home in a very big way. As service members, we know the risks around the world. Khobar Towers and the USS Cole will forever be burned in our

  • Friendly interaction generates intercultural understanding

    Ganci Air Base at Manas is a fascinating place.Far away, the peaks of the Ala-too Mountains, perpetually covered in snow, surround us like a panorama.Below them lie seemingly endless plains of green grass and sand and that is where Ganci is located.Many coalition forces have been deployed to Ganci

  • Children must stay alert going back to school

    As the end of summer approaches and a new school year begins, students and parents should keep in mind safety concerns associated with going back to school.For many of the more than 23 million students nationwide, the journey back and forth to school will involve riding on a school bus.According to

  • Motorcyclists, protect yourselves

    As I sat down to write this article, a staff sergeant friend of mine who is stationed at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., called me on the phone."Guess what I got?" he asked."Married," was my first response. I followed that up with a new pickup truck, then a house."My Harley," he said. With the pride

  • Athlete gains more than fitness

    Almost one year ago, I stumbled across the finish line of Ironman Korea, a 140-mile-long triathlon.Crossing that threshold was the high-water mark of a great personal journey. While traveling to that point, I was fortunate to learn a few simple and universal lessons. The first, hardest and most

  • Motorcycles don't kill people - people kill people

    Last year, I wrote an article about motorcycle safety titled, "What were they thinking?" I should have called it, "Why weren't they thinking?"For as many years as I have been a rider, even longer, I have been concerned about motorcycle safety.Two months before I bought my first bike, a motorcycle

  • Incentive to soar like an eagle

    My husband has been an Air Force active duty maintainer for the past 13 years. And the question he is most often asked by civilians unfamiliar with the Air Force is if he has ever flown in one of the fighter planes.To John Q. Public, the military is seen as Disneyland -- a place where employees are