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COMMENTARIES

  • Diamond Tip: The biggest impression

    A while back, I was sitting with a group of young Airmen and one of them asked me, "What one thing made the biggest impression on you during your career?" I thought for a moment, but truth be told, I was stumped. Instead, I asked the Airmen to let me think about it and I would make it the subject of

  • All I want is my two front teeth ... or a mouth guard

    Imagine joining your squadron's intramural softball team. You buy a glove, a ball and the proper shoes. You practice with your team. Then, after donning the team's jersey and showing up to the softball diamond for your first game, you take your position on the field.It's game time! An opposing team

  • Don't just fill squares ... Make a difference!

    The term, "Filling Squares" has created a negative connotation causing our Airmen to shy away from doing the things expected of all Airmen. I would like to share my perspective regarding the filling squares comment I hear so often. I have sat on many boards for various types of awards and while

  • Strengthen the 'Long Blue Line'

    I frequently choke up a bit when I am at a retirement ceremony or going-away function and I hear people reference the "Long Blue Line." For me, it is one of the most reverent terms in reference to our great service. The thought that countless Airmen have served our nation proudly and professionally,

  • Which brother will have bragging rights after 'HarBowl' 2013?

    For the first time in National Football League history, two brothers will face off as head coaches for football's greatest prize - the Lombardi Trophy.The San Francisco 49ers, led by little-brother Jim Harbaugh, will go head to head against the Baltimore Ravens and Jim Harbaugh's big-brother John

  • Physical fitness: Struggle between mind, body, pain

    Losing weight isn't easy. It took me almost five months to accomplish my goal of losing 40 pounds.I am physically average, but mentally I am tough. To lose the weight, I motivated myself after I experienced a humiliating personal setback. I was serving in a position which my old eating habits did

  • Be the leader you deserve

    We all know that the New Year brings resolutions that typically revolve around better health and fitness, paying off debt or competing educational goals.What about making a resolution to be a better leader? Vince Lombardi said, "Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity - having

  • Bold, Innovative, Risk-Taking Airmen

    To the Airmen of our great global mobility enterprise: thank you! We have asked a great deal from you and your families this year. Through it all you have been the model for operational excellence and allowed our Nation to accomplish some amazing things across the globe. You are, without a doubt,

  • Another Missed Christmas

    To all of us, AMC is the Air Mobility Command, but to some, it is also means "Another Missed Christmas." There are few who haven't been away for the holidays during their career, regardless of their major command. My young brother-in-law is at Lackland Air Force Base attending basic training right

  • AMC commander: Home for the holidays

    After years away, Ricki and I are overjoyed to return to Air Mobility Command. It feels like we have come back home, just in time for the holidays. To you, the more than 130,000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian men and women who make up our Mobility Air Forces, we could not be more proud of