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  • 'Alterior' Motives: Healthy living in a fast food world

    It's an immutable fact of life that no matter if you're an airman basic working on the flightline or the wing commander, everyone must eat.But this often runs into another immutable fact: we here at the 48th Fighter Wing are seriously busy. We're supporting fighter operations, combat search and

  • Refreshing look at 'cola'

    What a great overseas benefit this COLA thing is! Not to be confused with popular soft drinks, the Cost of Living Allowance is a non-taxable supplemental pay allowance designed to offset overseas prices of non-housing goods and services. What does COLA do? Simply put, it generally allows service

  • Deployment Journal: A somber New Year

    The midnight air was icy cold here Dec. 31, 2010, as hundreds of Italian, Spanish, American and Albanian servicemembers rung in the New Year with a crisp salute and final farewell to their fallen brother.Though most around the globe celebrated the passing year and coming of the next, we were somber

  • COMUSAFE sends holiday wishes

    Team USAFE,My wife, Betty, and I are extremely honored to join you in this wonderful Command! We're looking forward to spending our holiday season with you this year. You've done great things over the past year and I know you and your families will continue to be brilliant in 2011 ... you can't help

  • When the stork comes to call

    Watching old cartoons as a child I learned a lot of things. One of the most important things I learned is where babies come from.For years, it was a reality to me that my sisters entered my life in the loving grasp of a stork wearing a little messenger's cap (the stork also seemed to be perpetually

  • Plans change as mission unfolds

    Friday started off like any other day: wake up, get ready, make the 15-mile drive to the base and go to the gym. This particular Friday, about 10 minutes into my workout, I noticed a news ticker on CNN about the wildfires in Israel. I didn't think much of it, but thought how awful it was and

  • Real wingmen act

    Preventing sexual assault requires a culture change at the grassroots level. Applying President Harry S. Truman's "The buck stops here" motto teaches wingmen to avoid passing responsibility for action to others when witnessing sexual harassment or a situation that may lead to sexual assault.

  • We are all veterans

    "When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?" - George CanningMany of us know the story - on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month of 1918, major hostilities in the Great War were formally ended when the armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany inside a