• Leadership: Is there an app for that?

    The world is growing more and more dependent on technology.  Even our United States Air Force has become automated to improve programs, processes and quality of life for Airmen. We have Facebook, smartphones, BlackBerries, MyMC2(My Military Communities), Twitter, Facetime, Skype, webpages,

  • Holocaust Days of Remembrance: A reminder and a warning

    During this time of the year, people often ask me what it is like being a Jewish person on Holocaust Remembrance Week, and what it means to me.To me, this week is a reminder that evil - true, unbiased, malicious evil - exists in this world. Even the most casual search for information on the

  • Learning from the Holocaust: Choosing to act

    This year, April 12 to 19 marks the observance of the Holocaust Days of Remembrance, with the official Day of Remembrance taking place April 16.The Days of Remembrance were established by the U.S. Congress in 1980 to memorialize the six million Jews, as well as millions of non-Jewish victims, who

  • Tobacco Cessation

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains that there are more deaths caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides and murders combined.  Every year, smoking causes about 480,000 deaths in the United

  • New COMPACAF shares focus, commitment to Airmen

    Last month, I was presented the greatest opportunity of my Air Force career -- I became commander of Pacific Air Forces.I want to tell you how honored and humbled I feel to be here. Standing in front of our Pacific Airmen and accepting the PACAF flag from General Welsh was an incredible experience,

  • Fire Prevention Week

     "Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives, Test Yours Every Month".· Fire Prevention Week was established to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire, the tragic 1871 conflagration (a large disastrous fire) that killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned

  • Dealing with disappointment

    "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.We all have to deal with disappointment at some time in our lives. Truly, we deal with disappointment on a regular, even a daily basis. That meal wasn't as good as it looked. That relationship was an

  • Quit...or press on? Osan to Kunsan Ride - 7th Edition

    On a hot Thursday in August 2008 it began. I had been in the Republic of Korea for about seven months, was a pretty active cyclist and loved to explore. I had never ridden further than 70 miles. On this Thursday, in a passing conversation, a much more accomplished cyclist in the medical group

  • The Courage to Continue

    The Courage to Continue Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood...and I--I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost        Robert Frost reminds us that some roads are similar but you

  • The five "P"s to overcoming and avoiding running injuries

    Readiness in the military is critical to success.  Part of being "ready" is being as fit as possible at all times, on any given day.  We never know when we may have to call on our physical fitness to "Defend the Base, Accept Follow-on Forces, and Take the Fight North."     One of the most popular