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  • 25 Wonderful Years of Service

          Family. It’s hard to imagine, but on 16 March of 1992, this grateful Airman joined our beloved Air Force.  I will never forget the months and days that lead to my arrival at Lackland AFB, nor have the memories faded from the joy and peace the Air Force has offered my three girls and I for over

  • About That Communication

    Is lack of communication REALLY the problem?  How about another consideration…individual responsibility of both the sender and receiver.  And what was the timing of that communication?  With e-mail, phone calls, texting, meetings, EIM sites, Facebook, Twitter, friends, office chatter, the grapevine,

  • 3d Airlift Squadron 75th Anniversary

    Hey, remember when the 3d Airlift Squadron celebrated its 75th Anniversary? Well of course not, because it is happening right now! As you read this, our Royal Family - men and women from past to present - have gathered here at Dover AFB to celebrate 75 years of safe, swift, sure worldwide airlift.

  • Tench-HUT!

    When someone finds out that I used to be a Military Training Instructor (MTI), I am always asked the same two questions: “Did you enjoy it?” and “Was it hard?” And I always give the same response: “It was the hardest job that I ever loved.” Now that I have returned back to my original career field

  • Cyber Wingman

    What is a wingman? Before I joined the Air Force, I would have described it as Maverick and Goose sitting in their fighter jet together. Since then, I learned a different meaning of this term “Wingman.” A wingman is someone who looks out for their peers and holds themselves accountable for what

  • Get to know your community

    When I meet Airmen new to the installation, I like to ask them about their first impressions of the area. The answers generally fall into one of two polar opposite categories: geographic proximity and geographic isolation. They see the major east coast cities as Dover's main attraction, or they

  • Public Health Defends Dover Airmen Abroad

    The world is a dangerous place, especially from a Public Health standpoint.  Zika, Measles, Tuberculosis, Avian Flu; a veritable cornucopia of communicable diseases wait around every corner of the world.  How can the average traveler be expected to know everything about every disease they might

  • A resilient state of mind, body: overcoming failure

    First off, I want to start out by saying that a 91 on a physical fitness test is nothing. It’s what’s expected of me. It’s what I should strive for every time.To tell the whole story I have to go back to my last week in Basic Military Training, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas; I failed the

  • Keeping the Romance

    The hardest thing I’ve ever done? Be married.Sharon and I have been married for more than 30 years – most of it wonderful, but not so at first. At about the 10 year point, something was wrong. The commitment was there, but the romantic feelings had faded. Later Sharon told me that she wanted to find