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  • Life preservers save lives

    Back in November 2008, I was enjoying an unseasonably warm day at Heber Springs Reservoir with my family and some friends. We started the day with on the pontoon boat, with our friends riding on their jet skis. After awhile, they invited me to take one for a spin. Not having a lot of experience on

  • Dear Drunk Driver

    Dear Drunk Driver,We don't know each other. We never met. That is until our lives literally collided. It was a night/early morning I wish I could forget and, in some ways, have forgotten. I guess there is part of me that also wishes I could remember more.The night started out great. I was with my

  • Air Force lives promise of teamwork

    Two days after graduating from American University in May, I came to the Pentagon with a new suit jacket, two forms of identification and a sense of nervous anticipation, ready to start my summer internship. As part of the workforce recruitment program, my résumé was among many in a database of

  • Family Forum: Employment partnership marks new chapter

    On June 29, I attended the launch of the Defense Department's Military Spouse Employment Partnership, a program that will expand career opportunities for military spouses among companies that are eager to hire them.Fifteen companies joined the partnership, giving MSEP a total of 72 employers who

  • Summer not a time for complacency

    Summer is hot. That's the theme for this year's Critical Days of Summer campaign, which kicked off May 27.By now, you've read the summer safety messages in the base paper, or heard them from your supervisor, commander and safety professionals at all levels. These messages include knowing the risks,

  • With NASA's final shuttle launch, JTF-STS wraps up its historic mission

    July 8 marks an important day in history as the world prepares to watch Space Shuttle Atlantis launch over Florida's space coast for its final voyage, bringing NASA's crewed space shuttle program to an end.If you've followed NASA's space shuttle program, you are aware of the inherent dangers that

  • The Millennial Air Force

    When I arrived at my first duty station in the fall of 2000, one of the first things my supervisor did was hand me the most horrid hat I had ever seen in my life. It was a blue "trucker-style" mesh hat with a blue rope stretched across the bill displaying my new organization's shield with gold

  • Finding what works for you

    I think it has been well established that regular, consistent exercise is good for you.Unfortunately, however, we often approach exercise like so many other things. We figure that if some exercise is good, then even more should be better. We also figure if moderate intensity is good, then extreme

  • Standards of courage

    The other day at lunch I saw something that really stuck with me. A colonel excused himself from his dining companions for a moment and went over to an Airman at another table. Discretely, he corrected her on improper wear of the uniform.Is this something to be concerned about? Is this what leaders

  • Now, that is mentoring

    About ten years ago, after enlightening me with, no doubt, another gem of wisdom that went over my head, the colonel said to me, "now, that's mentoring!" Years later, I'm beginning to understand what mentoring really is and that we can easily miss it, even when it's right in front of us. We often