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Commentaries

  • Airmen, families zip through Colorado sky

    If someone would have told me that a year and a half into my Air Force Reserve career I would be hanging upside down from a wire, speeding through the sky at more than 35 miles per hour, I would have called a recruiter a long time ago.The Buckley AFB Outdoor Recreation program hosted its first zip

  • It's Generation X's turn

    It was a normal Tuesday for me as a sophomore in college at the University of New Hampshire in the rural town of Durham.  That day, 15,000 students went about their routines, moving from class to class.  I remember it was morning, and I had just come back from my Introduction to Intelligence class.

  • TRICARE Nurse Advice Line gave me peace of mind

    Panic.I feel it often as a brand new parent. Every cough, sneeze, hiccup and facial twitch has me searching the internet for strange diseases or terminal illnesses. I'm used to people telling me those things are normal and there is nothing to be concerned about. This time however, our baby girl's

  • Got Esprit de Corps?

    My first exposure to esprit de corps was as a cadet in ROTC. My detachment commander would rally up all the cadets on Leadership Lab Fridays. He would not only give a speech, but he also participated in the team-building events followed by meeting everyone afterwards. It wasn't his rank or position

  • COMMENTARY: 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

  • CFC: Find your reason to donate

    For the last six years, people have approached me during this time of year to ask if I would donate through the Combined Federal Campaign. These people caught my ear in different manners - some sat me down for a lengthy explanation of the CFC, some informed me of the CFC drive during commander's

  • Fish the streams of Colorado

    Bored on Buckley? Well how about going out and try reeling in a big one? There's plenty of fishing opportunities around the Buckley and the Denver metro area. So get out and try casting into some of Colorado's fishing destinations.Some of those destinations nearby would include the Aurora Reservoir,

  • Viewpoint - You never know when

    Leadership and mentorship - everyone has a view of what it entails. I'm no exception. Almost 23 years ago to this day, Lt. Col. "Joe Buck" Novich - my very first squadron commander - provided me some leadership lessons in a way that I've not seen duplicated to this day.In late June 1987, I was 30

  • Viewpoint: Attitude drives behavior

    As an individual mobilization augmentee chaplain and a senior pastor of the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Mobile, Ala., I have seen attitude drive behavior. A person's body language is a result of their mental attitude. By choosing your attitude you get in that mood and send out a message

  • Viewpoint: Don't do dumb things

    As a cadet at Texas A&M University I was a member of an organization that annually marched in the final Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. It was a trip we all looked forward to for obvious reasons - three days away from college at Mardi Gras! Prior to departing we received a safety brief from our