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  • Mission - Airmen - Family

    Then-Maj. Gen. Robin Rand, formerly the Air Force's Director of Legislative Liaison, took the time to sit me down on several occasions to provide professional and personal mentorship, most recently after I was selected for squadron command last year. An outstanding senior leader and mentor in our

  • Preventing sexual assault with bystander intervention

    Over the last few weeks we have been discussing what a bystander is and the importance of recognizing signs to look for to be a good bystander. Now, let's talk about how to intervene to help prevent sexual assault on Goodfellow.The first step to intervention is assessing the situation. Is it safe

  • My First Air Force Family

    Sometimes I wish I could make time standstill. In the constant changing life we live, every once in awhile I wish a moment would last forever. I remember when Chip and I were stationed at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., while he attended Air Command and Staff College. We had an amazing flight of

  • The Future of Our Nation is in Your Hands

    "Surprise, when it happens to a government, is likely to be a complicated, diffuse, bureaucratic thing. It includes neglect of responsibility, but also responsibility so poorly defined or so ambiguously delegated that action gets lost. It includes gaps in intelligence that, like a string of pearls

  • The power of bystander intervention

    It was a typical Saturday night and I was at a club with my friends. I noticed a girl dancing with a guy known for getting ladies drunk and taking advantage of them. I made my way over to them and told her to dance with me. She gave me a dirty look, but I was persistent. I took her arm and pulled