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  • ‘Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that’

    Martin Luther King’s words still ring as true today as they did 30 years ago. His contributions to our history helped a nation to right unspeakable wrongs, which were tarnishing the name “America.”Even after the Supreme Court struck down segregation in 1954, human rights offenses were both law and

  • Chaplain recalls honoring fallen in Baghdad

    The telephone in the chapel tent at Camp Sather, the Air Force contingent at Baghdad Internal Airport, rang a little after 9 p.m. It was someone from the U.S. Army mortuary affairs team. When mortuary affairs called, it was generally to cover a fallen U.S. Soldier, Airman, Marine, Sailor, defense

  • Your AEF needs you

    For the past six years, our Air Force has used the Air Expeditionary Force construct to meet the air and space power needs of our nation, tweaking the AEF as necessary to improve it and adapt it to meet emerging challenges. One of those adjustments has been to expand the pool of AEF-eligible

  • Airlift -- It’s a beautiful thing

    Since I am on my second deployment in less than two years, I have noticed something about what the Air Force does that I have often taken for granted: airlift.Why airlift?Simple. It is the bread and butter of the deployed force. It is one of the most used resources in all of the theaters of

  • A mind is a terrible thing to waste

    Each year thousands of people make New Year’s resolutions to improve their life in some way. Usually the resolutions end up being forgotten about, laughed at or buried under numerous excuses as to why they weren’t attained.Well this year when you are sitting around the TV watching the big ball drop

  • Seize opportunities, move forward

    "Flight 254 from Salt Lake City to Dallas is now boarding."Bidding my family farewell, I hurried through the terminal gate, made my way down the entry ramp and found my seat on the huge Boeing 767 that soon would be headed east towards Sheppard. Eventually the pilot declared "We are No. 1 for

  • Excellence in all we do includes time for self

    Service before self is probably the hardest of the Air Force core values to define. However, it doesn’t mean service in spite of self.How can someone emphasize service before self too much? Here are few examples: coming to work on a wing family day to do routine work that could wait; always

  • Time -- your precious gift

    The hustle and bustle of the holiday season is upon us and people are scurrying about in search of the perfect gifts for family and friends.Having trouble deciding what to get for those special people in your life? How about giving the gift of time.There is perhaps no greater gift that we can give

  • A time to share, receive a blessing

    A recent event reminded me of the blessing I received some years ago as a single Airman when I shared holiday festivities with a military family. It prompted me to share that blessing with some single Airmen this holiday season.Three basic training Airmen, along with two co-workers and their

  • They were there all along

    For no apparent reason, a co-worker asked to speak with me in his office. After the door clicked shut he said, “Word on the street is you’re not doing so well.”I was floored. How could I have let it show? I’d been doing such a good job of hiding it. The past three months of carefully shrouding