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  • OPSEC demands much, protects much

    Social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr can provide an instantaneous and highly entertaining feedback stream of your daily activities to friends and family. The latest videos of dogs running with fireworks in their mouths, kittens tumbling in the snow or Internet memes of celebrity

  • 68 years of aviation dedication

    Growing up without a mother or a father and bouncing from one living situation to the next might leave a child yearning for a place to fit in and call home.But for one young man, these conditions were the beginning of a 68-year career dedicated to aviation.Amiel J. Guitz, a quality assurance

  • Suicide prevention: The spiritual side

    Editors note: This is the third article in a series of stories focusing on suicide prevention.The U.S. Air Force uses a program called Comprehensive Airman Fitness, and the concepts of the pillars of resiliency, to encourage Airmen to keep balance in their lives. There are four pillars: social and

  • Missileer marks milestone, pulls first alert

    Every career begins with a first day on the job. Everyone has been the newbie at some point.So it goes in the world of nuclear deterrence.Early October, 2nd Lt. Holley Macpherson, 320th Missile Squadron deputy missile combat crew commander, took a major step in her career. She manned a launch

  • 50 Shades of pink

    Through reminders from doctors, self-exams and colored ribbons, breast cancer awareness continues to catch on. But although more and more people know what to check for, how many people actually check?After watching her mother undergo chemo for stage IV breast cancer, Michelle Betz, 5th Bomb Wing

  • The Black Eye Campaign

    The 90th Medical Group Family Advocacy Program recently sponsored a Black Eye Campaign to promote domestic violence awareness. Volunteers from across base used makeup to give the appearance that they had black eyes in an attempt to create reactions from those who work with them or who saw them

  • Top tier of enlisted supervision

    This is the final installment of a three part series describing the roles and views of different supervisors in each tier of Air Force enlisted leadership.Master Sgt. Kelly Barrett, 5th Bomb Wing NCO in charge of command and control operations, has been in the Air Force for more than 18 years, many

  • Caring for the caregivers

    Since its inception, the Air Force Chaplain Corps has been a source of comfort and relief for servicemembers both on and off the battlefield.Chaplains and chaplain assistants have provided religious, spiritual, emotional and physical support to untold numbers of Airmen and their families around the

  • National Preparedness Month: Be Disaster Aware, Take Action to Prepare

    Editor's Note: Tech. Sgt. Jonathan Maas and Staff Sgt. Nathan Sisk from the Installation Office of Emergency Management provided information for this article.Natural disasters, hazardous material spills, terrorist attacks, and zombie apocalypses are all real and valid reasons to be thinking about

  • Under pressure, Airman delivers

    Most baby delivery stories seem to follow the same generic, almost preset story-line. The mother beings the early stages of labor, heads to the hospital, begins her contractions, then some odd amount of hours later, baby is born.However, for one Whiteman Airman and his family, their baby story