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Commentaries

  • Managing conflict

    As a commander, one of the most difficult things to do is effectively manage conflict with individuals both internal and external in your organization. Unfortunately, as a manager, if you’re going to do your job, you have no choice.Looking back now over my career, I can recall several conflicts

  • The truth about trust

    What makes an Airman who has been in for over five years, promoted to below-the-zone, has all fives on their Enlisted Performance Reports and has won the John Levitow award at Airman Leadership School get out of the Air Force?Perhaps they felt as if their career was not successful. Perhaps they were

  • Amazing April -- Inspections, Exercises, Distinguished Visitors, and B3T

    It has been an amazing few weeks and it’s hard to believe we’re already through April and into May of 2016. Just in the past 30 days, we completed the GLOBAL LIGHTNING exercise; cut the ribbon on our recently expanded fire department bunkhouse; hosted distinguished leaders on BAFB to include the

  • Team Buckley needs interdependence

    When I think of a word that defines teamwork, one term stands out: interdependence.A common definition used in Professional Military Education for interdependence is purposeful reliance on another entity to accomplish a mission. Interdependence is a fundamental part of teamwork. Any team truly

  • 743d MI BN Understanding the Army Space Badge

    It was a sunny afternoon on March 10 and a crowd began to gather just outside the Aerospace Data Facility, Colorado. They were all here to see one thing.The Army Space Badges were going to be presented to a group of Soldiers. This award represented a culmination of over a year's worth of dedicated

  • PCSing with ease: lessons learned

    The e-mail pops up saying "Congratulations you have been selected to move to your next duty station." The excitement is brief and then you start to realize how much work you have to do prior to leaving. The everyday to-do list just doubled and the overwhelming feeling of change begins to set in.Over

  • Proper dress and conduct in civilian courts

    Have you been subpoenaed to appear in a civilian court to testify on behalf of yourself or another individual? If so, then you may not be aware that you must first receive military approval before you are allowed to wear your uniform.First, determine whether you are being summoned as a defendant,

  • Teen dating violence

    The Cycle of My LifeBy:  Megan, Age 16It all starts out wonderful until he strikesConstantly hearing "I'm sorry"Until it doesn't matter anymoreForgiving every time, forgetting neverCalling out for him to stopNever stopping until it is almost too lateNever thinking about the consequences of his

  • Stormwater: Our responsibility

    It's just _____"It's just ¬_____. It occurs naturally. Why do I have to do anything about it?" This and similar questions are heard by stormwater management professionals all the time. I hope to illuminate some of the most frequently asked questions and their answers for our readers to create a

  • Training, Exercising and Innovating

    I’d like to personally thank each of you for your outstanding contributions to our semi-annual wartime exercise last week known as GLOBAL THUNDER and our BAFB installation exercise, PANTHER THUNDER. We exercised our wartime missions, shook the dust off our plans, worked through stressful emergency