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  • Are you keeping pace with your herd?

    While driving down Randall Avenue two weeks ago after an early morning physical training session, I had to slow down so a small herd of pronghorn antelope could cross the street. I was stopped for only about 30 seconds as a dozen or so antelope crossed leisurely in front of the 90th Mission Support

  • Donating bone marrow can save lives

    It started right after I met my wife. She was contacted by the Bill Young Bone Marrow Center because she was a match for a 40-year-old man. I watched her go through the process of physicals and preparation for her trip. Before she could depart, the call came that it was too late. The person she

  • A good deed: Thanks, Cheyenne, for supporting Warren

    Being in the military we have the fortunate privilege to defend freedom and unfortunate experience of sending friends and loved ones into harm's way. To recognize their departure, we have luncheons or dinners to say farewell and wish them well. Since arriving at Warren, I've heard of how great the

  • Transitioning in the U.S. Air Force

    While driving to work recently, I realized it had been a year since I joined the Air Force. I really couldn't believe it had been a year already. Basic training is still vividly entrenched in my mind: the sound of reveille as your alarm clock rings, our footsteps while marching the streets of

  • Primary cause of motorcycle accidents: Cars

    The number one reason for motorcycle accidents is four-wheeled vehicles or "cages" as the motorcycle community refers to them. Statistics generally don't motivate people toward change; however, personal experience may. I had three serious near accidents last summer involving cars that did not see

  • Setting acceptable standards

    Have you ever thought about who sets the Air Force standards we as Airmen uphold and enforce every day? Most answers would be that it has to be someone with more rank or responsibility than us, possibly someone at the Air Staff or Air Force Space Command headquarters. Granted, it's the job of every

  • Dear Hero: Letter to the Soldier

    I've been keeping up with the progress of our nation and world; despite the controversy surrounding your presence in the midst of the turmoil in the Middle East, thank you. I thank you on behalf of my liberty, dear Soldier. I wake up every morning to a free and prosperous nation that supplies me

  • Expectations key to success

    The Air Force of today is the most lethal and most diverse all-volunteer force the world has ever known. As most of you know, the 90th Space Wing has or has had Airmen performing duty all over the world, doing everything from humanitarian missions in Central America and Micronesia to direct action

  • Leaving lasting impressions

    I was recently afforded the opportunity to attend the Air Force NCO academy at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo. I spent the traditional six weeks at the academy with my fellow technical sergeants from around the Air Force, discussing leadership and management concepts,

  • Are you there for those around you?

    Have you ever met someone who changed how you look at yourself? Someone who did the right thing, time after time, despite the difficulties? Someone who was a leader not because of their rank, but because of their character? This is my story about one of those people and how he had the power to