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  • Taking Care of the Family

    In his article Lorenz on Leadership: Part 3, Air Education and Training Command commander Gen. Stephen R. Lorenz refers to the Air Force as a "family business" made up of our "extended Air Force family" - active duty, guard, reserves, civilians, retirees and their families. It's a definition

  • Reputation over Decoration

    Many years ago I was the executive officer for a 620-person squadron. I recall that while there were "quarterly awards" and several other regular opportunities for recognition, there did not seem to be the plethora of individual and group accolades that are available today. These days it seems every

  • Energy Awareness Month; Let’s Do Our Part

    We are pleased to announce the 29th Annual Federal Energy Awareness Month Campaign begins today. The Air Force theme for this year's campaign is "Think Green, Build Green, Fly Blue." This theme emphasizes the importance that sustainability principles need to be included in the daily execution of our

  • PME: Critical to developmental education

    As leaders, one of our most important responsibilities is to grow our next generation of leaders.In other words, the mentoring of our junior Airmen (officers, enlisted and civilian), to ensure they are ready and responsible enough to handle the positions they will be assuming in the not-so-distant

  • Readiness does not happen by accident

    Next week, the 45th Space Wing will be conducting a four-day exercise designed to test our readiness on a wide variety of possible force protection and anti-terrorism scenarios. We look forward to doing this, because we all have learned over the years that nothing takes the place of being prepared.

  • Being a good Wingman

    In last week's Missileer, there were two very sad articles about losses to the Air Force family. One was on an AFTAC Master Sgt. whose wife passed away following child birth, while the other was on a suicide at Schriever AFB.These articles addressed completely unrelated events; however, each had a

  • Training & Counseling: Chief Roy on the mark

    Last Monday, I read an article authored by Chief Master Sgt. Of the Air Force James Roy. In it, he touts training and counseling as future keys to success in today's Air Force.He is right on the mark.So regardless of your rank or duty title, if you supervise anyone we want you to give it your best.

  • Need to keep ‘telling it like it is’

    Over the past few weeks, we have published articles aimed specifically at helping you. We recently published one on the benefits of "fair fighting," and the very real problems disagreements can cause within an office, a family or a relationship. We have run stories on where you can turn to for help

  • Walking by a problem

    I just relinquished squadron command a few weeks ago. It was a tremendously rewarding experience that I'll never forget. One thing I learned to be absolutely true during that tenure was: "When you walk by a problem, it becomes the new standard." But this was also one of the hardest things for me to

  • Stay alert; stay focused; STAY SAFE

    With next Friday being an Air Force Space Command "Family Day," we wanted to make contact with as many of you as possible before the big Labor Day weekend.So far, the 45th Space Wing is doing a great job during these (often times) dangerous "101 Critical Days of Summer."To date, we have had zero

 

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