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  • Conserving Energy: The Bigger Picture

    October is Energy Awareness Month, and members at Osan are making every effort to do their part to conserve energy - but not for reasons you may think. After reading several articles, e-mails and memos on each base's initiatives to save energy, I couldn't help but wonder, what motivates members here

  • A Devotional Moment: Holiday Survival

    "Ready, set, go!" Or should I say "Hana, dool, set"-- the holiday season is beginning! Children are planning their door-knocking routes to maximize the candy haul. Around the corner we'll remember and honor our Veterans, then devour sumptuous Thanksgiving feasts. Without slowing down it's time to

  • Why I Serve

    Five years ago my son surprised me by announcing he was applying for the Reserve Officers Training Corps. I was surprised because he made it quite clear he wasn't interested in the military when he left for college the previous year. He had experienced firsthand the effects of a military lifestyle

  • Stride toward saving your own life: Breast Cancer Awareness

    Did you know anyone can develop breast cancer? Did you know the National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 184,000 new breast cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in 2008? Did you know October is National Breast Cancer awareness month? Right now there are more than two million women

  • Never lose sight of the big picture

    During the summer of 2006, I was deployed to Baghdad serving with the Army Corps of Engineers when I learned one of the most important leadership lessons of my life. Of course, I've learned a lot of lessons over the years, but this one was one of those "eye-opening" moments that I will never forget.

  • Control your own destiny

    Controlling your own destiny is a term often associated with sports meaning a team only has to win to make the playoffs. In life, "making the playoffs" can take on a different meaning - progression in your career or even your life.Everyone loves to use the phrase, "We're undermanned," but in some

  • Do you know how to protect yourself from fraud?

    If you were stopped on the street and someone said to you, "Hey, I think I've just been a victim of fraud, what do I do?" How would you answer the question? Do you know what fraud is? You may have heard or read news reports on a company that entered into a contract with the U.S. government for a

  • Jointness, partnership seen in C-NAF anniversary

    They say history has a funny way of repeating itself. As 13th Air Force marks a historic milestone on Oct. 6--that of its two-year anniversary as a component-numbered Air Force--I can see in our current day-to-day operations the echoes of our past, as well as the continuing promise of our

  • Every Airman has a critical role to play

    Fly, fight, and win. Bombs on target. You hear these terms growing up in the Air Force and are told no matter what your job is, your role is vital to the overall mission. For some, that link is difficult to make. "What does my job have to do with putting bombs on target?" asks an Airman from the

  • What is your personal mission statement?

    Have you ever tried traveling across the country without a road map? If not, then why travel into the future without a map? Recently during one of my business classes I came upon an interesting tool to use in life. Our assignment was to come up with a personal mission statement and then a one-year