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  • My husband is a drug addict

    I’ve said those words many times, yet the sound of them still makes me cringe. I still wonder how any of this could have happened; I ponder how everything could have spun so horribly out of control.About a year ago, I was pulled out of Airman Leadership School by an Office of Special Investigations

  • Without thinking, we’re lucky to be alive

    Our office had a safety briefing with a different flavor before the Memorial Day weekend. Every other safety or operational risk management briefing I have sat through since I enlisted six years ago was vanilla: “Don’t drink and drive. Only drive eight hours per day. Make sure you have whatever

  • Summer -- a season to exercise off-duty safety

    "There are no second acts in American lives," F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote.Memorial Day Weekend signals the start of summer, traditionally a time of fun and sun. During the 101 Critical Days of Summer, we sometimes try to do too much because of the extra sunlight.Here are suggestions on how to

  • Give a ‘hero’s welcome’ this Memorial Day

    Over the course of the past two years, I’ve been on two deployments that took me to Afghanistan and Iraq and nearly everywhere in between.After completing each of those deployments, I was able to come home to family and friends to what seemed to me like a “hero’s welcome.” I, however, do not feel

  • Memorial Day more than just day off

    My office is decorated like most others in the military, with mementos and photos hanging around the room. My “I love me” wall is behind the desk, littered with the memorabilia of various assignments.However, of all the plaques and mementos, the one hanging directly behind my chair has the most

  • Embrace change with a positive attitude

    We’ve all heard the saying, “The only thing constant is change.”Despite the fact that change is always occurring around us, some people don’t like change and often resist it as much as possible.Resistance can easily evolve into negative behavior that affects performance. Even worse, negative

  • How to avoid becoming an identity theft victim

    According to the United States Postal Service, identity theft is America’s fastest-growing crime. The Federal Trade Commission estimates up to 10 million Americans become victims of identity theft every year. If you become a victim, you will have to pay about $500-$1000 and spend 30-60 hours of

  • What does it take to be recognized?

    The question lingers: What does it take to be recognized? For Airmen and noncommissioned officers, recognition can be a confusing issue, so let’s talk quarterly awards.What does it take to get recognized? For Airmen and NCOs, recognition as a quarterly or annual award winner can be a bullet on a

  • Lack of communication could cause you to miss the point

    Ever have those moments in life where you wish you could hit the rewind button and replay something that just took place?I would hate to think that I am the only person putting tread down on this Earth who has ever dreamt of doing such a thing. It would be safe to guess that most of the instances

  • Airmen learn from Holocaust

    Many years ago, I saw a documentary called "Night and Fog," made in 1955 by concentration camp survivor Jean Cayrol and French director Alain Resnais. Only 32 minutes long, depicting concentration camps, medical experiments and starved skeletal victims of the Nazi Final Solution, the film affected