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  • Continuing education is important in today's world

    Building upon the success of the 2011 "Year of the Community College of the Air Force" (YoCCAF), AFMC will continue the initiative for 2012 and beginning this month will launch into the "Year of Continuing Education" (YoCE). Continuing education benefits all of us -- officer, enlisted and Air Force

  • A 6th graders learns some lessons while home alone

    Easter vacation had now begun, a good report card was in hand, and my mind was full of multiple ideas of how I would use a forthcoming week of freedom. Mom had told me she would be off doing some errands and that I was to come straight home. I would be alone and in charge of the house for a couple

  • Fostering the American spirit is the way we do things

    It's difficult to be positive when the news is riddled with bleak stories about our economic recession, 15-plus trillion dollar debt, high unemployment and record housing foreclosures. While it can be easy to get beat down and accept failure, this is not the American way. Instead we must stay

  • 2011 a time of successes, 2012 will bring change

    As the holidays draw close and the year winds down, we have an opportunity to reflect on the past 12 months and think ahead about what's to come. I would like to thank our team of more than 85,000 hard-working Airmen--military and civilian. As a result of your talents and professionalism, we have

  • 2011 a time of successes, 2012 will bring change

    As the holidays draw close and the year winds down, we have an opportunity to reflect on the past 12 months and think ahead about what's to come.I would like to thank our team of more than 85,000 hard-working Airmen -- military and civilian. As a result of your talents and professionalism, we have

  • 75th Medical Group wins energy award

    On Friday, Nov. 18 at the Hill AFB Energy Management Steering Group, Col. Kathryn Kolbe, 75th Air Base Wing vice commander, awarded the 75th Medical Group with the annual Energy Champion Award. The 75th MDG, under the direction of Col. Don Hickman and Facility Maintenance Manager James Dowdy, have

  • Minuteman Solid Rocket Motor Warm Line test success

    On Oct. 20, 2011, Northrop Grumman (NG) and ATK successfully ground tested a Minuteman III Stage 1 solid rocket motor for the U.S. Air Force as part of the Minuteman Solid Rocket Motor Warm Line (SRMWL) program. The refurbished Stage 1 case used in this test originally entered operational inventory

  • On your list today: have you got balance?

    Got balance?Throughout our work days and our home lives, we are constantly making trade-offs between one thing and another, whether we notice or not. Sometimes it's good to stop and take the time to notice, to step back and reflect on how we are balancing things.Our Air Force is going through a

  • How will you handle winds of change if they approach F6?

    On the Fujita Scale (also known as the F-Scale), which measures the severity of tornados, there are typically five ratings from F0 to F5, with residual damage rated as light to incredible. Sometimes, an F6 category, the "inconceivable tornado," is included in the scale. The F6 has never been

  • Veterans Day: A time to remember

    Duty, honor, country: these words are just as significant today as they were in the past. As Air Force Materiel Command continues to equip warfighters, these words have strengthened our resolve and prepared us for the future.All the great wars fought at home and abroad transformed this country,