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  • Family key to suicide prevention

    I’ve seen the effects of suicide twice since joining the Air Force.I’d been in for almost two years, and a young Airman who lived down the hallway from me in the dorm hanged himself. I didn’t know him; he had only been at the base for a couple of weeks, in the Air Force for a few months. I never

  • A simple diagram of life’s priorities

    In my 20-plus years in the Air Force, I’ve run across a lot of people with their own secrets to success, and believe me, they are always willing to share their thoughts. These are sometimes very simple, and these are sometimes very complex.Some of the grand plans to success are easily discarded 15

  • Uniform survey ushers new chapter into AF storybook

    Future Air Force historians could easily label 2004 as the Year of Decision.We have taken this year by the horns and renewed our vows to physical fitness, paved a road toward transformation, and set aggressive force-shaping goals to get back to our “fighting weight,” and we continue to make tough

  • Establishing life's opportunities

    My addiction started in 1997 when I discovered my first Starbucks coffee shop. A friend took me there and he got a "froufrou" coffee with caramel, nutmeg, lavender, rose petals and a hug.I just wanted a plain cup of joe.He quickly informed me that ordering a plain coffee in Starbucks was like going

  • Airmen should put 'best foot forward'

    My friend was taking a walk on the beach recently when a sunbather called out to her. Thinking she knew him, she stopped for a moment.The man proceeded to tell her she was “too fat to wear a bathing suit” and that she resembled a “side of beef.”When she told me about her weekend, I was sickened and

  • What does your conscience say?

    How many times have you started to do something only to stop and ask yourself, "Should I really do this?" Maybe it doesn't happen too often for you, but it does for me.Every time I have to decide what action to take, I hear this little voice that guides my decision. Some people would call it my

  • Voting is not just a right, it's a duty

    On Sept. 18, 1787, the final day of the constitutional convention, Benjamin Franklin emerged from Independence Hall in Philadelphia into a crowd of curious spectators. The people were eagerly waiting for news of what form of government he and his fellow delegates had created for the young nation.A

  • Celebrating America's birth

    Sixty years ago, as more than 12,000 allied aircraft, about 5,000 naval vessels and 150,000 soldiers were heading toward Normandy Beach, President Eisenhower assured America victory in war and restoration of liberty.President Ronald Reagan reminded America on the 40th anniversary of D-Day that "From

  • When 'Batman' went to bat for me

    I read a story recently about Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues.In 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers' owner, Branch Rickey, told him, "It'll be tough. You are going to take abuse, be ridiculed, and take more verbal punishment than you ever thought possible. But

  • Understanding 'generation gaps' vital to workplace harmony

    Our work environment today is more diverse than ever. In addition to incorporating military, civilians and contractors, we are now confronted with the task of forming an efficient team from members of distinctly different generations.I recently came across an article discussing the differences in