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Commentaries

  • If it can happen, it will happen

    The mantra of any safety program is, "it can happen to you," meaning a mishap can happen to anybody. The problem is most people think it will happen to someone else, never to them. Some survive the mishap, and some don't. Ironically, every victim, if they live to tell about it, will recount that

  • Colorado's summer days

    It's summer, finally. The long winter months have been laid to rest and a rebirth to summertime leisure and travel has begun. If you're like me, this means Saturdays spent by the pool, more opportunities to wear flip-flops, and day trips to local venues and parks.If you're looking for ways to spend

  • Resolving interoffice conflict

    I'm sure we've all experienced conflict within the workplace at one time or another. If not, we have at least known someone who has and then told us about it. Let's face it, I think it's safe to say that as long as we work in an environment with people different from ourselves there's really no easy

  • An honor to serve you – thanks for your patience

    Each duty day, approximately 500 men and women take their positions in the various areas of 21st Medical Group to provide you with quality, timely and customer-focused medical services. It's a responsibility we take seriously and certainly with pride and honor. As Air Force Space Command's largest

  • Feeding camels is tiresome, yet important task

    When my 3-year-old asked me why I was going to the desert in 2004, I said, "Daddy has to go feed the camels," and that was enough to sustain his curiosity. My 7- and 8-year-olds didn't buy it.Despite their doubt and his bewilderment, I went forth and tried my best to help by supporting ground and

  • Are you in a hurry?

    I recently read an article entitled "Don't Be In A Hurry," which made me pause and look at my own lifestyle. We always seem to be in a rush. Our society today is full of fast food, rapid transit, instant messaging, instant weight loss, instant wealth, instant credit, instant abs and instant success.

  • Solve problems for your boss

    A few years ago I was fortunate to be the director of the Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base. One of the primary responsibilities of JSpOC is to create space situational awareness by fusing space surveillance data, intelligence, status of friendly space forces, and space

  • Saluting vets: Vosler staff retires flag at veterans’ home

    On Memorial Day, my wife, some friends and I, along with 50,000 other people, ran in the Bolder Boulder 10K road race. On our trip back to Colorado Springs in the afternoon, we noticed several national flags still flying at half staff. Protocol dictates on Memorial Day, the flag is raised to full

  • Choices: they last a lifetime

    A number of years ago, as I was sitting in my office on a beautiful sunny afternoon, a young lady entered my office and asked to talk with me. She began to sob as she shared a story all too familiar to me. Earlier in her life she had made an impulsive choice that impacted her life profoundly. In a

  • It’s getting pretty foul out there, and not because it’s fire season

    It was, "one of those days," Lea said as she described her experiences to me. "I was already late for work when the Colorado Springs Police Department pulled me over for speeding. At the office, the computers were down. By noon, the banana I'd brought for lunch was squishy and finally, as I sped for

 

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