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  • Team Buckley Diversity Council hosts AAPI event

    Team Buckley comes together to celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at Buckley Space Force Base, Colo., May 13, 2022. Members learned about the island of Hawaii during a luau, while enjoying cultural dishes. (U.S. Space Force photo by Airman 1st Class Aleece Williams)

  • Battling Cancer in Combat Boots

    While deployed overseas, brave military members fight every day and night, harder than they have ever had to before, with the thought of returning home to their families constantly running through their minds. Service members look forward to the day they come home to decompress from the combat zone

  • Narrow your zone of ignorance

    As our esteemed Chief of Staff, Gen. Mark Welsh commented last week at his commander's call, we all have a story. As a proud Community College of the Air Force degree recipient, I'm respectfully taking this opportunity to share a little bit of my story with you. It was February 1997,

  • Tools of the trade

    On an uncharacteristically cool, crisp night, deep in the heart of Louisiana, efforts to evade capture by an opposition force came to a halt when, quite unintentionally, I managed to gift-wrap myself in the painful spirals of razor-sharp concertina wire that had been maliciously stretched across my

  • Leading isn't easy when you genuinely care

    I was watching an episode of "Game of Thrones" recently when I heard one of the many so-called kings boldly say, "It's easy to be a leader when you're not facing any danger." I quickly reached for my remote control and hit rewind for a repeat of the scene. I wanted to make sure I heard it right, and

  • View from the top: "Serve like a champion today!"

    As many of you know, I am a rabid Notre Dame Irish football fan. I have spent many a Saturday huddled around the television cheering my Irish to victory. However, the winning tradition to which I have been accustomed over the past 40 years has changed quite a bit. The wins are a little less frequent

  • VIEWPOINT: What makes a champion?

    Have you ever wondered what makes a person a champion? Not just the obvious answer of a gold medal for an event or being ranked number one in a certain category. But really, what makes a person a champion? For me, one definition was observed on a miserably hot and muggy September day in 2008 in San