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Pursuing a healthy dialogue and stigmatizing rape culture

KUNSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — Editor’s note: This commentary focuses on the perpetuation of rape culture from one Airman’s perspective and offers recommendations on how to improve upon this issue in the Air Force and society as a whole.As service members, we receive a number of mandatory ...

Who of us are good Wingmen?

OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea — If you already said you are, you may want to reevaluate your stance or at least ponder if there is more you could do. To be a good wingman is not to believe yourself so, it is for others to perceive and accept. That quick pep talk you gave or the ...

Four quick tips: meet COMACC’s “ready now” fitness initiative

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Gen. Mike Holmes, the commander of Air Combat Command, recently expressed his intent to emphasize a “ready now” mentality among Airmen across the command.To meet this intent, Holmes is encouraging Airmen to understand how physical fitness directly relates ...

OPSEC in the Social Media Age

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. — In late January 2018, Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Heather Wilson and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein released a joint memorandum on operational security and the renewed need to protect sensitiveand classified information.“Clearly in times past, ...

Halting hypothermia

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah —If you are like most people, you feel cold every now and then during the winter. However, cold air can also pose threats to your health, whether you’re indoors or outside – and not just in bitter winter weather.Left untreated, hypothermia, or abnormally low body ...

Eagle Eyes program encourages reporting suspicious activity

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — With the Eagle Eyes anti-terrorism program personnel can, through a collective effort, aid in the prevention of terrorism through awareness, vigilant observation and reporting suspicious activities through the program’s communication channels.To aid ...