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  • Career progression: Personal charge

    Career progression, upgrade training -- however you want to name it, it is important and ultimately your responsibility as an Airman in the U.S. Air Force to maintain a skill level commensurate to your rank.As your base training manager, I am responsible to ensure the upgrade training status of

  • Finance: lose debt, create savings

    Was one of your New Year's resolutions to get financially fit? Warren Federal Credit Union and the Warren Airman and Family Readiness Center have launched the "Combat Debt/Score Savings" challenge. Would you like to decrease your debt load; jump start your savings; and stop living paycheck to

  • Not on my watch: Nuclear surety

    There is a line in the movie "A Few Good Men" that always gives me chills. It is not the line about eating breakfast 400 yards from 2,000 Cubans; it is not the line, "You can't handle the truth." The one that always rings true with me takes place between two of the defense attorneys, Lieutenant

  • Education important now, always

    In January 1988, I was first introduced to the Montgomery G.I. Bill and education opportunities in the Air Force. As our training instructor walked us through filling the forms required to accept or deny this option, I wondered why I needed any additional education. After all, I had declined two

  • Remember to celebrate, act - a day on, not a day off

    Martin Luther King Jr. was born Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta. He is the best-known leader of the Civil Rights Movement, which took place in the 1950s and 60s. Dr. King embraced non-violent resistance as the best, most moral and most practical way to achieve social reform in the United States. Dr. King

  • Achieving your personal success in 2009

    As you start out your New Year's resolution, most of us will venture down a well-traveled path paved with bold and sometimes hastily conceived New Year's resolutions. It is a route covered with promises to exercise more, lose weight, stop smoking, cut down on alcohol consumption, eat a healthier

  • Warren: Best damn missile wing in the Air Force

    Some may liken our good inspector folks to Ebenezer Scrooge, the character of Saturday's wing party skit, but that is old Scrooge thinking. You see, the IG are people just like you and me. They have families. They have friends. They miss their families and their families miss them. They are quite

  • WWBMD? Ask yourself, what would Billy Mitchell do?

    Ever heard of a guy named Billy Mitchell? How about Army Maj. Gen. Billy Mitchell? The one who fought to make the Air Force its own branch of the military and was court-martialed only to be awarded medals and promoted to major general posthumously? Yep, that guy. He may not be the greatest example

  • Historical perspective

    During an inspection, things can get frustrating quick: Just when your file plan is in order, your co-worker decides to create a new binder; you seem to have an "unclassified" or "Privacy Act" sticker on every piece of furniture, and your starting to wonder if your coffee mug should have a sticker

  • Compassion and the American Soldier

    Compassion is a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. As we focus on compassion during this month in our Year of Leadership journey, I'd like to introduce a leader, Army Maj. Victor Joppolo. Joppolo