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  • One Small Change Can Make a Difference

    We have learned that to be healthy we need to exercise and eat a balanced diet. That's how we keep our bodies operating at peak performance and we're able to do the things we want and need to do. The Earth has similar needs. To be healthy, plants and animals that live on the planet need to fulfill

  • ARE YOU ON MOBILITY?

    In 1984, when I arrived for my first assignment at Hanscom, Mass., the very first question I was asked was "sir, are you on mobility?" I had no idea what that meant. Later, I learned that being on mobility meant I had to keep a duffle bag full of uniforms, underwear, toothpaste and shaving cream in

  • Truly Among the Best

    Recently, I was talking with a group of senior non commissioned officers who asked me if I was completing an enlisted performance report, how would I define a "Truly among the Best" Airman. Although everyone's definition is different, and there are so many subjective viewpoints I instantly pictured

  • Why do you what to put your boots on?

    As Commander, one of the first questions I ask my Airmen is, "Why do you put on your boots every day?" For some, family obligations, service to country, or educational opportunities tie the strings. For others it is the chance to travel the world. Whatever the reason is, the questions that need to

  • Who is on your team?

    "Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work," said Vince Lombardi, the National Football League Hall of Fame coach for the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins. Today, Airmen are deployed worldwide and many

  • Challenge Equals Opportunity

    More than 28,000 wounded service members have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq and more than 600 of these heroes have lost a limb; 100 plus with multiple limbs lost, additionally hundreds return severely burned. With the challenge these members face, it's imperative we keep faith with each of them

  • No job is more important than the one you serve now

    There is a reason why you are assigned to your current military or civilian position. It may be due to a personal decision, a supervisory or leadership decision, or divine intervention. Either way you fulfilling an Air Force requirement and you have been identified to perform that specific duty.

  • Delegation and Empowerment

    In my opinion, we as an Air Force have been optimized for our mission for the past few years. If you have been serving sixteen years or more, you have seen our numbers draw down from a force of more than 600,000 people to a force of about 340,000. At the same time, our mission has not diminished in

  • AMC Wing Commander Message: Next Generation Tanker

    To the men and women of Air Mobility Command, On Feb. 29, it was my pleasure to join with the Secretary of the Air Force and the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition in announcing the award of the contract to build the next generation tanker, the KC-45A. It was really a great day for

  • Professionalism: Connecting the Dots

    Surveys continue to tell us that the military ranks at the top of what people consider "trusted professionals." We are also members of the "profession of arms." So what does the word professional mean? What does it mean when someone says, "Be a professional?" Some think of professionalism as a