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  • NCOs responsibilities include sexual assault response and MEO

    In AFI 36-2618, The Enlisted Force Structure, noncommissioned officers are charged with many responsibilities. Two of those responsibilities are being mentally ready to accomplish the mission and maintaining a "zero tolerance" policy. It is imperative that, as NCOs, we understand how to detect and deal with many issues as they arise. Sexual assault

  • Freedom -- it's worth fighting for

    Freedom is the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action, according to Webster's dictionary. Freedom is what the war on terror is all about, and it's important that we not lose sight of it. A lot of the world doesn't seem to realize what freedom really is. While we - the free world - fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, those

  • B-1 training: necessary for the fight

    The B-1 Bomber is the combatant commanders' weapon system of choice in today's combat environment due to its load carrying capability, loitering time in the area, and speed at which it gets to the fight. With four big engines, each with 30,000 pounds of thrust, it can get to where it needs to be in a hurry. But we think little about the time spent

  • PME: more than a square-filler

    "Sir, how am I supposed to finish [insert professional military education course here], when I am supposed to work 12-hour days, answer 100 e-mails a day, deploy, and still spend time with my family?" If you have served any time in the Air Force, you have no doubt heard this question asked. I know. I asked this very question to my squadron

  • Holocaust remembrance: our hope, our duty

    As Remembrance Day approaches April 15, somber feelings engulf many of us. Air Force members all have a minimum of a high school education, so we know that throughout World War II Jewish people were herded into ghettoes, forced to wear the Star of David, and, ultimately, 6 million Jews were killed in the worst genocide in human history. Most

  • To listen is to learn

    It's amazing what one can learn by simply taking the time to listen. Many years ago I learned a lesson, the hard way, which proved you can learn a lot simply by taking the time to listen. When I was a young second-grader, I had three consecutive progress reports that stated I talked too much in class. Needless to say, my mother was none too pleased

  • Change – not just for change sake

    Transition, change and transformation - these are the buzz words thrown around today to describe what we are doing as an Air Force to deal with everything from external and internal threats to resource constraints and the need to recapitalize our force. Change is not foreign to us; we have all endured change from the time we were first conceived in

  • Take a stand now for a better future

    Last week, about 100 people from our unit went to see the movie "300" together. What was meant to be a morale booster turned out to be pretty motivating for me as I tried to apply some of the principal analogies in the story. The movie is an adaptation of the epic battle between 1,300 Greek soldiers (anchored by 300 Spartan warriors) and hundreds

  • The show must go on!

    Are you prepared to step into a leadership role unexpectedly? Have you taken time to learn your supervisor's role in the organization and readied yourself to assume his role when called upon by your organization? These are questions each of us must ask ourselves daily. Think of yourself as an understudy. Understudies are an integral part of any

  • B-1's 'noise' not something to complain about

    I have heard people complain about the noise the B-1 makes on take off. Personally, I don't think it's something to complain about because I have come to love the B-1 - especially the sound of it. I have been around aircraft since 1947, when the Air Force wasn't yet formed but was known as the Army Air Corps. I grew up as an Army Air Corps "brat."
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