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  • Do you know the Airman's Creed?

    Do you know the Airman's Creed? The Airman's Creed has been out for more than two years, yet there are still some Airmen who do not know it. Yes, I know sometimes it's hard to remember all of those lines on a piece of paper but what you need to do is to add meaning to it for yourself. This is the

  • Telling your story is important

    When I was deployed to Iraq, my mother said, "We have Air Force people in Iraq? What does the Air Force do there?" My mother is probably like a lot of other people out there. She's educated, watches the usual news networks every day and reads the newspapers. How can they not know about the most

  • Develop your vision

    Imagine, if you will, an adaptive training environment that sits inside a bare room. This environment can be manipulated to simulate any task; from simple to complex. With the flick of a switch or push of a button, the bare room transforms into a living, breathing, interactive experience. Sounds and

  • Greeting Carmen

     If you haven't seen the Air Education and Training Command headquarters building, you're missing out.  It is a grand, historic building that was built in the 1930s, nestled under age-old oak trees. Although initially used as an academic hall for new Air Force aviators, the building has had many

  • Suicide prevention: A leadership challenge for all

    Every time an Airman's life is lost in Pacific Air Forces, I am alerted. All are tragic in different ways, but among the most troubling is when it involves a suicide. During the course of my 35 years on active duty, I've learned that we cannot prevent every suicide attempt. More importantly, I've

  • Memorial Day: More than just a day off from work

    Memorial Day is a holiday, peculiarly observed. If you have not served on a detail, volunteered for honor guard, or flown a missing man formation over a military ceremony on Memorial Day, you may primarily associate this holiday with the running the Indianapolis 500, the beginning of the Critical

  • Recall the real story behind Memorial Day

    More than 1.3 million Americans have fought and died on behalf of our country during the past 233 years. Except for Afghanistan and Iraq, those wars and conflicts have receded into the pages of history books.  But our country was not built on history books. It was built on the backs of men and women

  • Managing the transition

    As we start the next air and space expeditionary force rotation, are you and your organization ready? We make it look easy at times, but it takes a lot of preparation to keep up the pace of operations we have set. Each cycle we demand maximum effort from everyone for a limited period of time. It

  • AFSO21: A new way to put out fires

    Many people tend to 'fight fires' in their professional and sometimes even in their personal life. Problems pop-up and seem to spread like wildfire and a lot of time and energy are spent trying to put out the 'fires.' Unfortunately, with manpower and funding shortages, it is easy to fall into the

  • Supplements: Make informed choices

    At different bases throughout the Air Force, Airmen are turning to dietary supplements in an effort to maintain a fit force and high personal fitness levels, while causing possible risk to their health. This can particularly pose a problem in deployed environments when Airmen usually make an extra