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  • Tobacco: What's your No. 1 reason to quit?

    What's the most important reason you should stop using tobacco products today, or within the next few weeks? I can't tell you. No, it's not a secret. It's personal. No, I don't mean I can't tell you because I don't like you. It's because you have to decide what your No. 1 reason to quit is. I could

  • Making the best better

    As noted well outside our confines here, in less than a year, the 18th Aggressor Squadron transformed from a go-to-war mission to a team dedicated to providing the best adversary training in the Air Force, and indeed the world! A significant element of this transformation lies in the ability to

  • The meaning of being a first-term Airman

    Her name was Paige Renee Villers. She was fun-loving, full of life. She wanted to take on the world and wouldn't let anything get in her way. She was a good person who didn't always have the best of luck. She didn't always agree with her mother, and she was never a straight-A student. But she knew

  • What you do matters

    Eighteen years ago as a 22-year old two stripe Airman, I loaded up on a C-141 Starlifter and headed out on my first deployment. At the time none of us on that C-141 knew where we were headed, or for how long. What we did know was that a dictator called Saddam Hussein had taken over a small country

  • The value of sacrifice

    Sacrifice is a daily event in every Airman's life. From the moment we enlist in the military or take the oath of commissioning, we all understand that ours is a life of giving. Nowhere is our sacrifice more evident than during a deployment in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. Not only

  • Look into their eyes

    If we want the Air Force to be a family, we must do what a family does: care for one another. At a recent conference for new squadron commanders, a commander's spouse asked me a great question: "What is the one thing we can do to make the most difference for our people?" My answer was simple. It's

  • The hardest job I've ever had could have been prevented

    I can still remember the event years later as if it happened yesterday. I received a phone call from the noncommissioned officer in charge of the Military Personnel Flight. I was informed that I had one hour to report to the MPF in service dress and lead a casualty notification team. The fatality

  • Why stay?

    Not too long ago, I was asked by a young Airman why I joined the Air Force and why I continue to stay in. The first question was pretty easy to answer, as my father and his father were both in the military. I had thoroughly enjoyed growing up in the close-knit military community. When I was young,

  • Civil Air Patrol: A foundation for leadership, education

    After I finished my duty for the day, I heard a familiar sound through my office window outside the 421st Combat Training Squadron building where I work. It was the echo of enthusiastic chants from the cadets of the New Jersey Civil Air Patrol encampment hosted by the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary

  • Uniform inspires act of honoring Airmen

    On a recent trip to a bookstore, I was approached by a man in his late 30s to early 40s.He seemed nervous and upset; avoiding eye contact and shifting his weight from one foot to the other. My guard went up immediately. In 22 years of military service, I've heard some negative things said about the