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  • Please excuse the mess...

    You may have noticed many changes going on throughout the 17th Mission Support Group over the last several weeks. As we prepare to merge the 17th Mission Support Squadron and the 17th Services Division, multiple offices have relocated or rearranged their office spaces as well as organizational

  • Tool time

    I was crawling around the sidewalk under a streetlight the other night when someone stopped and asked if she could help me. I answered, "I'm looking for a quarter I dropped." She asked if I dropped it right there. "No," I responded, "I dropped it in that dark alley way over there, but the light is

  • Contracting ethics

    As an Air Force Contracting Officer, along with my squadron, we are bound by core values which shape and define our culture. They allow us to constantly transform ourselves and the environment in which we work into a professional climate bound by ethics and integrity.  It is not an accident that our

  • Are you "just" the expectation?

    Every now and then in my career when I was not so full of my own opinion and ideas, I would take time to listen and would actually glean some good information and advice. As I reflect over my Air Force career, one of those rare moments stills stands out and today it is still some of the best advice

  • Old Soldier remembers Korean Armistice

    July in Korea--the typically hot and humid summer month in the middle of monsoon season was unusually dry and pleasant in 1953. I was a first-grade schoolboy living amidst the rubble and devastation left in Seoul. I was also still overwhelmed by the loss of both parents just three years prior,