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Is your team prepared for injuries?
The Chicago Bears and the Houston Texans are playing great football right now. The Bears are 7-3 and tied for second place in the NFC North Division trailing only the undefeated Green Bay Packers. They have won five straight games and are 5-1 at home.The Houston Texans are finally living up to expectations in the AFC South. Like the Bears, they are
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11/26
2011
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Still honored, never forgotten
Everyone deals with death differently.There's no manual or technical order on how you should react or feel or the exact manner in which you should privately grieve. You aren't born with a natural human instinct that allows you to deal with your emotions when a loved one or friend suddenly passes. You simply deal with death.It was more than seven
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11/09
2011
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Maintenance: Keeping them in the air
Another early morning arrival to the flight line as we prepare to take on the day's challenges with our Afghan aircraft maintainers. As the Afghans start to prepare aircraft for the days missions, it is the air advisers from the mighty 442nd Air Advisory Expeditionary Advisory Squadron that review the day's tasks needed to train and advise the
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11/07
2011
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What are you taking home?
Until now, I have not stopped to reflect on my time in theater. Many of us are so focused on the day-to-day mission we lose track of days and our accomplishments. As the wing first sergeant, I am in a unique position of being indirectly responsible for more than 1,000 personnel to include U.S., coalition and civilians throughout three groups and
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10/30
2011
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Mission Support: behind the headlines
Have you ever looked up at a helicopter or aircraft in the sky and wondered "what does it take for that thing to fly?" If you haven't, don't feel bad. Most folks would answer with the obvious...pilots and maintenance personnel. But there's more to the story. That's where the advisers of the 443rd Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron come in. Our
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10/11
2011
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Standards
Will you please roll down the sleeves of your freaking flight suit and un-cuff your ABUs?It starts with basics. While certainly not rocket science or brain surgery, uniform standards and how you live up to them tell a good deal about who you are as a military member. I have never met an outstanding service member with poor uniform standards. I view
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10/08
2011
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Humanitarian mission adds perspective
Anxiousness, excitement and curiosity. Those feelings are how I felt when I went "outside the wire" for the first time. In the Air Force, my job is to work in a communications squadron. I work with records management, SharePoint, Freedom of Information Act program, publications and forms and Privacy Act program. Let's just say, I don't get out too
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10/03
2011
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A dog's dream comes true
Since the beginning of time, man and dog have always enjoyed a distinguished and trusting friendship. Story upon story has been told describing the nurturing of a canine from their infancy to the dreadful day they have to be put down. The bond between a man and his dog is sometimes as strong as that as a mother and child.Although most dogs share a
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9/19
2011
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9/11 never forget 24-hour ruck march
Ten years ago, the American people faced the most significant attack on homeland soil since the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. As we reflect on the magnitude and scope of the last decade, one word comes to mind linking both of these tragedies, "sacrifice." Sacrifice in all forms, is what the men and women of our nation's Armed Forces as a whole
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9/16
2011
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KAW Mi-17 helicopter flight training
"Train first, enable second." This is the motto of the 441st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron as we mentor the Afghan Air Force at Kandahar Air Field. I am privileged to command a unique squadron composed of U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army air advisers joined with Airmen from Lithuania, Latvia, Belgium and Ukraine. Together, we train Afghan airmen
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9/13
2011
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