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Commentaries

  • Are You Happy Now?

    Knocking out professional military education, or PME, by correspondence is a rite of passage for officers. Without PME complete, you take yourself out of the running for future promotions. Many officers sign up immediately after finding out about a promotion to avoid any stigma associated with doing

  • I Laughed

    I laughed. It was an awkward, brief laugh, but a laugh nonetheless. That was my first failure during the conversation, but not my last.

  • Building personal resilience

    We often hear the word resiliency, but what does it mean? There are multiple definitions of the word resilience: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; the ability to be happy or successful after something difficult or bad has happened, and positive adjustment in the face of hardship.

  • Speak Life

    I was reminded recently how foolish it was to say as a child that “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” I didn’t believe it then, when I said it on the playground in response to a bully, and I don’t believe it now when I hear someone try to tear another down. Even

  • Peterson museum’s POW artifacts: A reminder of Airman resilience

    In the month of September, when our military honors our prisoners of war and missing in action, I always reflect on the Peterson Air and Space Museum’s collection of items brought to us from surviving World War II Airmen. Even though the use of airpower helped the Allied forces secure victory, this

  • Lawn care for life

    As the 21st Operations Group commander, there are many things I am passionate about. With a group encompassing 10 distinct squadrons operating at 21 different locations, we have Airmen partnering to perform our global missions 24/7, 365 days a year. Our missile warning, space surveillance, and

  • The four paws of resilience

    Five-year-old me was riding along on my rusty BMX bike when a German shepherd charged toward me and knocked me straight off my bike and bit me. Luckily, the owner was there to call the dog off, or I probably would have been a meal for the beast. My relationship with dogs at that point was not what I

  • Taking a resiliency knee

    Taking a knee in today’s society has multiple meanings. In football, a quarterback takes a knee to officially end a play, or, more recently, to demonstrate a political cause. Some service members take a knee as a loose form of security during a pause in a patrol, or a moment to reflect at the

  • The Light Switch Effect

    Every day, people across Peterson Air Force Base and Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station walk into a room and flip the light switch trusting the lights will turn on without issue. Things happen at the flip of a switch because of the Airmen in the 21st Mission Support Group. We are firefighters,

  • 21st SW members volunteer on mission trip to Jamaica

    The Peterson Air Force Base Chapel sponsored a mission trip to Jamaica, July 30 – Aug. 6, 2019, led by Lt. Col. William Spencer, 21st Space Wing chaplain. On the trip, we had a total of 13 people volunteer to go, 11 were active duty Airmen, spanning across eight different Air Force specialty codes,

 

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