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  • School safety update

    We have successfully made it through our first week of school. Wing leadership wants to thank everyone in the community for taking an active role in our children's safety in even the simple act of getting our children to school. We appreciate your patience and cooperation as we continue to adjust to

  • Don't become 'just another statistic'

    One of my least favorite things to do in the Air Force is to sit and watch a PowerPoint presentation that is stuffed full of statistics, graphs, and facts that I feel rarely pertain to me or my job. I used to think, "Who cares about how many dollars were saved by the reduction of traffic accidents

  • Where is this castle?

    The picture was taken years ago, but it still shows up on people's computer monitors here. Burg Hohenzollern, located atop Mount Hohenzollern, is the castle shown in the picture. The mountain is a conical mountain among the the Swabian Alps, located in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in the

  • Rules of the Road

    Each summer, hundreds of us take needed and well-deserved vacations. Some vacation alone, some with their friends, and many take their families. Long distance road trips can be a fun and exciting way to explore Europe and can be a great way to spend some quality time with your family or to simply

  • My job is prosecuting sexual assault

    Here's a simple truth ... sexual offenders reject our core values of integrity, service and excellence, in favor of following their own base, undisciplined, criminal desires. Most sexual assaults committed by Airmen are "blue on blue," or Airmen victimizing other Airmen. So in addition to rejecting

  • Pesticide use warrants safety precautions

    Being able to buy pesticides is just a matter of going to the store and finding the chemical with the picture of the bug you want dead. But, it can overshadow the fact that what kills them is equally harmful to us. Most chemicals are harmful in specific doses, making it key to prevent or limit the

  • Transforming sexual assault prevention in the Air Force

    Air Force leadership takes sexual assault prevention very seriously and continuously works toward creating a culture where sexual assaults are eliminated.To that end, senior Air Force leaders recently participated in a Sexual Assault Prevention Summit at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., in the

  • Caring for People Forum identifies opportunities to excel

    The Air Force introduced the Caring for People Forum in 2009 as an opportunity for Air Force helping professionals to address institutional hindrances in support of service delivery. Since that time, the forum has evolved to include installation and major command forums and has become the primary

  • Practicing followership

    Most of us know the word "Followership." But some either don't know what it really means or misinterpret its value. We've all heard the phrase, "Don't be a follower, be a leader!" It's phrases like this that create a negative stigma for the art of followership. Good followership is a beneficial

  • Memorial Day marks beginning of Critical Days of Summer

    Memorial Day is a day to remember our fellow Americans who have made the ultimate sacrifice for us and an opportunity to spend time with family and friends.Take this time to honor those who gave their lives to defend our freedoms and those that continue to do so today. Whether you observe this