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  • Taking care of your Air Force family

    July 2010 brought an end to the Year of the Air Force Family, a year devoted to providing Airmen, their families and local communities with information regarding the variety and scope of programs offered by the Air Force. This yearlong dedication centering on our families and the communities in

  • Planes break, plans change, people make things happen

    The Air Force has its traditions; I guess a 4 a.m. show time for a 6:30 a.m. takeoff is one of them ... at least that was the plan. The propellers were already turning on the C-130J Super Hercules as we walked out of the hangar towards the plane. The familiar smell of jet fuel sent me back to

  • Urgent vs. important

    I am a person who hates clutter. Anyone who walks in my office will be surprised at the lack of items on my desk. I do, however, continuously have one piece of paper visible. It is an old, yellowed copy of a base paper article from several years ago. Unfortunately I don't remember where I got it

  • My CCAF journey

    I sat down hard on the bed in our small Wiesbaden apartment when the news came: child number two was on the way and I knew, right then, that I had to get my collective together.It was January 1985, cold and sunny, and Kim and I just stared at each other. Child number one was strolling through the

  • Professionalism on- and off-duty

    Nearly one year ago, my military training instructor, Tech. Sgt. Daniel McKeown, told members of my flight to never get complacent. Yet, it wasn't until I arrived at Minot Air Force Base that I began to fully understand the true value and meaning of those words. Fresh out of Basic Military Training

  • Afghans teach American air adviser life lessons

    According to an old Afghan tale, there was once a crow who, in the normal course of gathering straw to build his nest, took notice of another bird. This bird was clearly not a crow ... he possessed a very unique appearance. His feathers were colorful, he had a very ornate tuft of plumage on his

  • 'Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America'

    Recently, my wife and I were walking through Manitou Springs when we overheard Bob Marley's classic "Buffalo Soldier" coming from the speakers in a nearby park. I reflected back to the first time I heard the song live at a concert in Tacoma, Wash., where he and "The Wailers" performed. As we got

  • Deployment journal: A strange encounter rekindles NCO responsibilities

    The last two-and-a-half weeks were long, as I spent them in the field without a change of clothes or shower. I rectified that within minutes of arriving at Camp Stone, a base near my own in Herat province, Afghanistan.While awaiting a convoy to Camp Arena the next day, I happened across the team of

  • Be accountable

    I'm not the regular crew chief. It's not my program. They didn't count all my push-ups. This isn't my normal job. How many of you have heard or maybe even used those excuses when your performance didn't measure up? We are all accountable to someone: our commanders, organizations and to the country

  • I'm glad he's home: Reintegrating after deployment

    It's great having someone around again to change the light bulbs and fix closet doors, but those were the small things that were easy to let go for the past 4.5 months while my husband was deployed. Since we had been married for only two months before my husband, Staff Sgt. Clifford Sisk, an aircrew