• Critical Days of Summer Week 5: Protect yourself from heat exhaustion

    The week five topic for the Air Force Critical Days of Summer Campaign is heat illness and injury prevention. Did you know Air Force losses during the summers of 2009 to 2013 caused 225 heat-related reported injuries and cost $3,582,735? In the civilian population during 1999 to 2003, a total of

  • Diamonds provide tools for additional duty first sgts

    Twenty-seven NCOs and senior NCOs attended the Additional Duty First Sergeant Symposium at the Consolidated Learning Center here May 27 and 28 to learn basic responsibilities needed to support diamond-wearers. There are currently five full-time first sergeants responsible for nearly 1,200 permanent

  • Better to be warned by siren than not

    The sounding of San Angelo's "tornado" sirens on Memorial Day night created quite a stir -- both during and after that evening's hailstorm.The morning after, a fair amount of criticism was leveled against the city for sounding the sirens even though no tornado was spotted in San Angelo. The