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  • Remember, reflect on 9/11

    As we approach the fifth year anniversary 9/11, it's appropriate to pause for a moment and reflect. Ask anyone what they were doing on September 11th 2001 and most will be able to clearly recall the events of that day in their lives and how they first learned of the terrorist attack. It's important

  • Why are you in the Air Force?

    Why? For almost all of us, why is a question we both ask and hear as a regular part of our daily life. Kids are particularly talented at asking why questions, and our military uniform and duties provide an endless source of questions. For me, this seems to be a regular event at home as my son

  • The expanding role of our "Battlefield Airmen"

    Air Force civil engineers continue to adapt to the ever changing battlefield, morphing into combat engineers or what leadership has labeled "battlefield-airmen." For the past three years, nearly 4,000 civil engineers have blazed a trail into new territory once seen only by the warriors of the

  • Pride in yourself is what’s important

    I have a mirror hanging in my office with a poem etched into the glass called: The Face in the Glass, it is based on the work written by Dale Wimbrow. It goes like this: When you get what you want in your struggle for self And the world makes you King for a day Then go to the mirror and look at

  • Do you know your flag’s history?

    You see them on houses, on cars, in front of government buildings, even on T-shirts. It seems it has once again become chic to "show the colors." Flags have existed for more than 4,000 years. The first type of flag, a metal or wooden pole with carvings on top, was called a vexilloid. About 2,000

  • Air Force changing, values stay strong

    The world and our Air Force are obviously changing at a rapid rate. However, there are also things that haven't changed...our core values! But what do our core values mean to you? Are they words you live by? Are they artificial words you use to spice up a performance report? Or maybe they are just

  • Leave program gives Airmen recharge

    We are one month shy of the five year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. On that day, our lives as Americans and as Airmen changed forever. Today, we are working longer hours, deploying for extended periods in support of the Global War on Terrorism and continuously

  • Tactical communicators move into 60th AMW

    Change is a word with which all Airmen are very familiar. With recent Force Shaping and many projected position deletions in the support community, there still are a few "safe" areas to work. As communications squadrons are hit hard with cuts, our newly assigned Theater Deployable Communications

  • Congratulations on a job well done staff sergeant selects!

    Congratulations to our new Staff Sergeant selects...well done! Each announcement brings joy to those selected for promotion to the next grade and disappointment to those who are not. For those of you, who did not earn your promotion this year, stay focused and do not give up. Dedicate yourself to

  • Integrity, Service, Excellence

    As proud members of the United States Air Force, we've learned to appreciate the powerfully positive culture that surrounds us as we live our lives by the three Air Force core values of Integrity First, Service Before Self and Excellence in All We Do. The fact that the great majority of Team Travis