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  • Maintaining a Global Lifeline

    More than a decade after the start of American involvement in Afghanistan, pilots and aircraft belonging to a global mobility enterprise headquartered amidst the cornfields of Illinois here continue to provide a lifeline for thousands of Americans overseas.Each day, Air Force C-17 and C-130 aircrews

  • New pet import rules for European Union and the United Kingdom

    As permanent change of station season starts, it's important to plan ahead for all of your dependents, including the family pet. New rules and regulations have tightened the import of animals into the European Union and the United Kingdom, but the Veterinary Treatment Facility has you covered if you

  • 2012 Gold Star Family’s Ruck March

    Did you know that if you are currently serving in the military, your moms and dads are called Blue Star parents? Many Blue Star families hang a service banner in their home window signifying the number of children serving in the military by the number of blue stars on the banner. However, if you die

  • Find the courage to listen

    As the son of an Air Force pilot, I learned some very pointed and quick lessons from my father early in life. One lesson he taught me as a young man and reinforced prior to his passing, has stayed with me to this day. "Remember Joe, you don't learn when you talk, you learn most when you listen," he

  • Total Fitness concepts embraces whole person

    We talk a lot about fitness these days. Physical fitness is important for our wartime mission, for the stamina required to do our job, for promotions and for military image and bearing. Total fitness, however, encompasses much more than an item needed to check a box on an evaluation. It involves a

  • Airmen Against Drunk Driving program saves lives

    Have you ever gone out drinking with your friends and made sure you had a designated driver? But then your designated driver decides he's going to have some fun and drink anyway. How are you going to get home now? Grab your keys and head home, right? Wrong. So what do you do?You could probably make

  • How leaders operate as elevators

    At a recent retirement for Master Sgt. Jerry South, former Airmen Leadership School commandant, he used the word "Ignite" as an acronym to help leaders remember his leadership philosophy. South's words were definitely inspiring, but I would like to add one specific word I think describes great

  • Adaptability and evolution – breaking the paradigm

    A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend an Airman Leadership School graduation during which one of our graduates, Staff Sgt. Joseph Dufault, was asked by the Operations Group commander, "what's your leadership philosophy?" Without hesitation, he responded "Sir, adaptability and

  • Learning life lessons from golf

    As the son of a professional golfer, I have spent a significant portion of my life on a golf course and throughout that time the game of golf has taught me a number of life lessons I think are worth sharing. First, golf is all about practice. When you see golfers on television make those incredible

  • Great supervision starts with great feedback

    As I thought about what I feel can hinder our mission effectiveness, every time I kept coming back to one topic: Feedback. It is one of the most important things we do as leaders and supervisors, yet when you ask many of our Airmen, they are either not getting it or it is not as candid as it needs