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  • Welcome 2010 - Looking Forward to a Year of Opportunities and Excellence

        Welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful holiday and took some time off to relax. What a great year 2009 was. I have been continually impressed by the professionalism and dedication of our team, and I know with batteries recharged, we have a great 2010 ahead of us. Every day, the 17th

  • The Future of Our Nation is in your Hands

    The following quote was extracted from Thomas C. Shilling, from the foreword to Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision, by Roberta Wohlstetter (Stanford University Press, 1962). "Surprise, when it happens to a government, is likely to be a complicated, diffuse, bureaucratic thing. It includes neglect of

  • The Holiday Season--Time for Reflection

    Happy Holidays! This time of season is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the many blessings of the last year and look forward to another filled with all kinds of ways to challenge each of us as individuals, units and organizations. We at the 315th Training Squadron take tremendous pride in

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    As we celebrate Thanksgiving this year, let us pause, reflect and count the blessings in our lives. Be thankful for living in the United States of America, a country where we all can enjoy the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution.Be thankful for the men and women serving every day protecting and

  • Thanksgiving Letter to Parents of Airmen

    Dear Mr. and Mrs. Bailey,As Thanksgiving approaches, I want to take the opportunity to thank you. You see, I command 650 Airmen in the 314th Training Squadron at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Presidio of Monterey, California. Your son Airman Beetle Bailey has recently