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  • How fitness helps your finances

    What would you say to making an extra couple hundred thousand dollars? Well, the Air Force is doing its very best to put that check in the mail, but to get it, you also have a big role in earning this money--here's how. Almost three years ago, the Air Force implemented its new fitness program designed to promote a "Fit to Fight" mentality. The Air

  • Thank Warren gate guards for our safety

    As you take the exit off I-25 bearing toward Warren, you slow down, dim your lights, drive over the speed humps and pull out your identification card, and at the gate is a person, gender unknown, in green camouflage, face and hands covered in black, extending their hand to inspect your identification card. It's 20 degrees outside, two inches of

  • NCOA lives up to its creed

    It was one of the proudest moments of my life. There I stood behind a podium at my mother's funeral. I shuffled my papers organizing my thoughts and for some reason I looked up. What I saw took my breath away. As I panned the crowd from left to right, I saw that the pews were full of people sitting shoulder to shoulder from front to back. People

  • Honoring the fallen Veteran

    The honor guard is universal to every military member, past and present.Every day veterans, retirees and active-duty military members pass on. It's the mission of the honor guard to render military honors at the member's final resting place.From the flag-draped casket to the playing of taps, there are meanings deeply rooted in tradition. The

  • Duty: what it means to an Airman

    Duty. It is such a small, inconspicuous word. To some "duty" shines with thoughts of honor, prestige and service. To others, the word drudges with it a dreaded weight of responsibility. There's no reason to coat it with kindness or color it wonderful: duty, at times, sucks. Military duty might be a shade weightier than most others: long hours,

  • A culture of excellence

    Every other week I attend the "Right Start" briefing where I have the privilege of welcoming a new group of Airmen to the best missile base in the command. I can say that we're the best not because of personal opinion, but because we have the hardware to prove it. The Omaha Trophy and the Colonel Lee R. Williams Award state we are the absolute best

  • The power of choice

    I've been thinking about choices and what they mean recently, probably because of the recent Combined Federal Campaign drive and voting registration effort. In both cases individuals have made small personal decisions and contributions that have a huge impact collectively. Through CFC, people's lives are improved and changed forever. Voting changes

  • The Greatest Generation

    My father-in-law is the coolest person ever. His name is Leonard, and he's 81. He and my mother-in-law Pat live in a little town in northwest Iowa. They've lived there almost all their life, and they've been married for more than 54 years. My husband and I call them every Sunday. The first topic of conversation is always the same: corn. It doesn't

  • There is no such thing as a bad assignment

    When I received orders to Thule Air Base, Greenland, everyone I spoke to about the assignment laughed and said "have fun" or something to that effect. Eventually, I came across someone who was actually stationed at Thule and they told me it was the best assignment they ever had. As I talked to more people who had been stationed at Thule, I found

  • What About Spring?

    In Wyoming, spring is in the witness protection program. It's disguised as something else; a fifth season wearing a parka and flip-flops. It just can't make up its mind. If spring could talk, I think we'd commit it because of its obvious split personality. But it makes us tough. It makes us cautious. It makes us, well, patient. It seems like I've
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