Newspaper era ends on Dyess

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  • By Capt. Paula Bissonette
  • 7th Bomb Wing Public Affairs
It's impossible these days to be unaffected by all the changes taking place around us. We've gone from taking a number at the Consolidated Base Personnel Office to signing in on a computer at MPF to simply logging onto the Air Force Portal and helping ourselves!

Bulletin boards have been replaced by scrolling, high-definition flat screen TVs and actually corresponding through the mail with hand-written letters is becoming a faint memory for most of us.

Almost everyone we know has a computer and uses it daily to stay connected to friends, family and what's happening around the world.

Change is good. It means progress, and it's our quick adaptation to and acceptance of progress that sets us apart and keeps us the efficient, lean and lethal force we are today. It's in the name of progress that the paper you hold in your hands will be the last of its kind.

This is the final issue of the Dyess Global Warrior as we will start posting our stories, news and community notes on the Dyess Web page, located at www.dyess.af.mil. You will still be able to read about the warrior of the week, scholarship opportunities, award recipients, promotees, space-available travel, commander's commentaries, and more - but it will be on a computer monitor instead of in its current form as a newspaper.

The Dyess Global Warrior mailbox will also go away, so the Public Affairs staff requests inputs for the online paper to be sent to 7bwpa@dyess.af.mil.

The progress away from base newspapers is a result of manning cuts across the PA career field. It is no longer feasible or efficient for two Airmen to work more than 40 hours a week to design and lay out a product that could take a third of that time to post online. The online version will also have advantages for our readers.

Now, everyone from deployed personnel to retirees can log on and get the same news the rest of the base is getting. While we bid a fond farewell to our base newspaper, an era comes to an end ... and so begins another ...