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  • Torres tackles tough times

    Many of you are probably noticing some subtle (and some not so subtle) changes going on at Hickam AFB. The grass doesn't seem to be getting cut as much as it used to, some services have been cut back a bit, some services previously free now carry a small fee. And some of these changes are probably

  • Spiritual fitness—like water on poison ivy

    BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Poison ivy--poison sumac! If you've never had it, you'll never know the sheer torture those four words represent. As a child I was a poison ivy and sumac magnet. We played outdoors all summer long and climbed trees that were covered with poison ivy and tramped through weeds

  • Abbreviating the core values - don't do it!

    We all have pet peeves, whether we want to admit it or not - those little somethings we see, hear or experience that really torque our jaws. Sometimes we don't know why these things bother us, we only know that they do. For a long time I've experienced that annoyance factor when I hear people speak

  • Attitude is everything

    Today, the Air Force is seeing many deployments, many cuts in our budgets, and many more challenges we must face. Our Core Values, our intense training, and our top of the line equipment are here to help us meet these day-to-day challenges. However, what can set us apart from the next country, the

 

 

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