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  • Proud to serve -- my view of military

    Duty, honor, integrity, commitment and sacrifice. Our deployed units across the world are constantly reminded of these five simple, yet significant words. Recent images of our fight against terrorism have invoked strong emotions in the hearts and minds of our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and

  • President Ronald Reagan funeral – Airmen remember a legacy

    Throughout last week, Americans and people from around the world celebrated the memory and recognized the achievements of our former commander-in-chief, President Ronald Reagan. He became the president of the United States at a very critical juncture in our national consciousness. President Reagan

  • As Father's Day nears, focus is on family

    This past week, we in the 11th Wing here were privileged to help render final honors for our late, great President Ronald Reagan.James M. Strock, in his wonderful book "Reagan on Leadership," quoted the president on one of the key elements of his vision for America -- family. Strock quoted the

  • My grass is greener on this side of fence

    I got a call recently from the security forces deployment manager at Air Education and Training Command, a person I've become well acquainted with during my brief tenure as a squadron commander.He asked me if my unit could "step up to the plate" and support yet another out-of-cycle deployment

  • Take time to reflect, learn

    In 1980 it seemed improbable to me that an actor I remembered most as host of “Death Valley Days” might get elected, much less succeed, as president of the United States. But I and a lot of other Americans were mightily surprised.What I failed to understand at the time was the importance of not

  • Team effort fuels success in Iraq

    Like many of my Air Force teammates, I recently returned from a four-month deployment to Iraq where we are helping to rebuild a nation ruined by a tyrant and to transform it from a bastion of terror to a free democracy.I consider my experience supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom to be one of the most

  • Airman learns core values, life's lessons in bathroom at early age

    When we think about the classrooms in life, I’m sure the bathroom is not at the top of the list, but the bathroom just happens to be where I learned my first core value.I was taught “Excellence In All We Do” by my father. My father isn’t a retired chief. He didn’t serve in the Air Force; he wasn’t

  • World War II Memorial deserves its central location

    When organizers first proposed placing the National World War II Memorial on the National Mall, critics complained.They said the memorial would spoil the ambience of the National Mall.Proponents of the memorial countered that the site -- between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument --

  • Take time to remember

    Three and a half years ago, while driving from Washington, D.C., to Augusta, Maine, my sister called me on the cell phone. “You better hurry, the nurse says he doesn’t have much time left.” My heart sank because I was only halfway there.As I raced north, images of my father flashed in my mind:

  • Personal risk management and the art of hog farming

    One of the advantages of growing up on a hog farm is that education comes quickly and lessons have a way of staying with you forever. The following is absolutely true.One blustery spring day when I was about 12, my father asked my brother and me to take the manure spreader out and unload it on the