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  • 2nd AF Commander sends Thanksgiving message

    Thanksgiving - one of my favorite holidays of the year. It's a time to reflect on how fortunate we are to live in this great country and be members of the world's greatest Air Force. Thanksgiving also kick-starts the holiday season when we gather with our friends and families, near and far, to

  • Attitude and initiative: the hallmark of our core values

    In yet another era of force shaping, we are faced with the fact that not everyone who joins the Air Force can stay. But not everyone who misses the mark in technical training school should be shown the door. Who do we keep? Just last week, I was reading Malcolm Gladwell's book, "Outliers: The Story

  • The Pilgrim Perspective

    The Pilgrims landed in the New World in the winter of 1621. We celebrate their arrival in our history classes and their survival at our Thanksgiving tables every year, but how often do we consider their struggle to survive and their faith that saw them through? Of the 109 Pilgrims hat landed that

  • Commissary offers warm food solutions for cooler weather

    A curious phenomenon occurs in commissaries everywhere this time of year. In order to be prepared for it, our meat and grocery managers have learned to pay close attention to the weather forecast because the first cold snap of the season brings hordes of commissary shoppers in search of soup and

  • Planning in advance: Are You Ready?

    Two of the times that I have deployed, I was given less than a week's notice to get on a plane and head across the ocean to the desert. You need to make sure you're ready and your affairs are in order because you never know when the call will come. Deployments have become a frequent part of Air