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FEATURES

  • For Lieutenant leadership isn't just an action, but an attitude

    The late Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi once said that "Leaders are made, they are not born." This quote never rang more true for 1st Lt. Kim Atkins, Sexual Assault Response Coordinator at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida."Both my grandfather and dad served in the Army as infantrymen,"

  • Airman saves the life of a child

    What was supposed to be a beautiful afternoon at the beach for a Joint Base Charleston fireman and his girlfriend quickly turned into a nightmare for a local Charleston mother and her three year old daughter.Airman 1st Class Daniel Pippen, 628th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter and his girlfriend

  • McConnell maintainers find value in diversity

    (Editor's note: This is the first article in a series about the diverse climate at McConnell Air Force Base)McConnell employs more than 3,000 Airmen from various ethnicities, cultures and backgrounds and the 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron uses more than 700 Airmen who exemplify that diversity to

  • Find the good things: Airman survives cancer

    Senior Airman Myiah Castillejo has always been a driven, competitive person who never had a reason to skip going to the gym.Her active lifestyle began with soccer when she was young, as well as track and field and indoor cycling from elementary through high school.Unsatisfied with her slight figure,

  • McConnell Couples: Togetherness through strength

    Then-Senior Airman Nichol Graham was working her night shift at the Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, billeting when a rather young looking Airman walked into the lobby.There were no stripes on the man's sleeves, so Nichol quickly stood up and popped to attention before she noticed that there was

  • Sergeant helps others in India

    "From across the room, I watched a man, who had lost his left foot, crawl to the water station," said Staff Sgt. Alexander Cedillo from Travis Air Force Base, California. "He could've asked me to get it for him but he didn't. Instead, with great difficulty, he made it back to his bed and then handed

  • Need a whiter smile?

    Is that yellow smile impacting your self-esteem at work? Home?Good news! The 92nd Medical Group dental clinic offers an internal bleaching treatment to adjust discolored teeth in a way that matches the rest of your smile."Internal bleaching is a procedure we perform under relatively specific

  • A Rosie by another name would still rivet just as sweet

    Connie Palacioz heard a radio announcement a week before graduating high school in 1943 that changed her fate forever."I heard they needed women workers for the war effort. I went and applied at the job opportunity office," she said. "They said we could go work for Boeing, but we had to go to a

  • Fire chief celebrates 50 years of service

    In the midst of an increasing American presence in the Vietnam War, he was attending community college while playing football and baseball on a scholarship. Before he was able to finish his degree, he dropped everything and joined the U.S. Air Force."I knew the draft notice was coming," said retired

  • NCO banishes mountain of paperwork to the PIT

    As years of logbooks and paper records stacked up in the 436th Airlift Wing Non-destructive Inspection lab, they needed to find a way to improve both their record logging system and their efficiency.Leadership knew they had a young, computer savvy Airman and they turned to him for the answer."They