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  • Civilians Doing Base Security: Who Are They?

    Who are those civilians standing at our gates and driving our Security Forces patrol cars? Prior to 9/11 we solely used military Security Forces to guard our installation. However, due to an overwhelming deployment tempo, the Air Force needed to augment the Security Forces defending home station

  • Cyber Warriors

    When we hear the term "Cyber Warrior" some may envision a room full of computers with wall-to-wall geeks proudly sitting in front of their computers thrashing out scores of binary code, focused on saving the world's network from certain doom and defending us against the evil 'Hackers of Endor', or

  • Who Are You Going To Call?

    The 58 men and women of the 17th Logistics Readiness Squadron stay engaged to ensure and everyone at Goodfellow Air Force Base receives the logistics support you need to achieve your part of the mission. I continually challenge each of our logistics professionals to find ways to make our processes

  • Contractor Recognition

    A vendor's past performance is a record of the work they have done both good and bad. Sometimes the 17th Contracting Squadron runs into past performance issues on contracts because of conflicting information. This happens when a squadron provides a vendor with an award of achievement without

  • It’s in good hands

    Where is my Air Force going? What are we doing? What are these young people thinking? How do I reach them? These are all questions that in the last few years I have heard in numerous conversations from various locations from top leadership down. My answer to them is, don't worry...it's in good