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  • The Air Force company

    The 185 people in the 17th Medical Group, and anyone who has worked with me in the last seven years, have heard this. My 19-year-old son might be embarrassed that I'm publishing this, but the account is worth repeating and it's something I can write credibly about because I am so convinced that

  • Intelligence Operations: the key to airpower employment

    In the more than five years since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, both the world and the practice of armed conflict have changed in fundamental ways. Perhaps the most important of these changes has been an exponential growth in the importance of agile and actionable

  • Deployments: Another part of business

    Deployments are a fact of life in our business. We are asked to perform our specialty in foreign lands and sometimes under extreme circumstances. We prepare for that physically with our physical fitness program, mentally by training on your core task and through specialized contingency courses, and

  • The 1 percent difference

    Have you ever considered what you do to be humdrum? You shouldn't. You and your service to our nation are special. Congress has authorized the U.S. military to be comprised of around three million military and civilian folks - that's a mere one percent of our total 300 million United States citizens