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  • Motivation through sense of purpose

    Our mission to ensure air superiority is clear, but not everyone sees how they fit into the process. It is up to every Air Force leader, anyone who is a supervisor, to ensure people working in their unit understand the role they play in accomplishing the larger mission. Everyone needs to know how

  • Teaching: seize the moment

    How long have you been out of school? For some it's just a couple of months, while others have been out of school longer than some of us have been alive. I've been out of school for a while, but a day doesn't go by without me learning something. I attribute it to one of my teachers who once said,

  • Providing support on the frontlines

    If you were asked which profession has done the most to increase the average life span of people, the first logical response might be doctors. After all, their medicines cure the sick and their surgeries help the afflicted. But if you said that, you'd be wrong. It turns out that engineers have had

  • Climate Assessments -- your unit, your voice

    "The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail." I believe this quote from Charles R. Swindoll speaks to an ideal attitude about unit climate assessment participation. You may think that your input doesn't matter or that you will not make a difference in the

  • Leadership...not just from the top

    Leadership is an often talked about subject. Corporations pay large sums of money for those they perceive have it. A cottage industry of selling leadership textbooks and giving self improvement seminars is thriving. Fortunately, we don't have to spend a lot of money on a manual, travel to a distant

  • Combat public affairs: a day in the life

    What began as a routine MC-130 flight to snap photographs of special tactics personnel jumping from the aircraft into the waters of the Yellow Sea, quickly became a combat search and rescue mission. You see, I was a passenger aboard an aircraft belonging to the 353rd Special Operations Group, a

  • Airman after wreck: ‘I have no business being alive’

    In the early morning hours of Nov. 26 a pickup truck traveling westbound on Interstate 10 in the Florida Panhandle hydroplaned off the road. It spun 180 degrees and traveled backward down a steep embankment into a tree line. The vehicle came to a violent stop after hitting a tree on the passenger

  • Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King

    When I was born in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King's life was almost over. He set the stage for how Americans live and interact today. Before Dr. King and the civil rights movement, blacks were relegated to second-class citizen status. I recall my mother and father picking cotton to make ends meet,

  • An American Airman

    As we serve this great Nation in the World's Best Air Force, the one constant through our Heritage is the "First Place" importance of PEOPLE. Some dismiss that as a worn cliché, but they don't live the experience...IT IS GROUND TRUTH! PEOPLE...AIRMEN, as we know them, take ownership of their Air

  • Wing JA warns of alcohol, rape connection

    A young woman goes out to the bars on a Friday night with her friends and starts drinking alcoholic beverages and socializing. Shortly thereafter she is out on the dance floor with a guy she knows from work. Throughout the night, he buys her a few drinks and by the end of the night, they are both