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  • You have the key to your attitude

    Looking back over 20 years, it is easy to pick out the tough assignments, projects and life events. For me, the hardest time of them all was simply saying "goodbye" to my family. One such event occurred while leaving my house for a short tour to Korea, only four months after returning from an

  • ‘Thank you for serving others’

    As we gather together with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, this is the perfect time to reflect upon how much we have to be thankful for. For one, I'm thankful for the opportunity to work with all of you - Active Duty, Guard, Reserve, Civilians and Commercial Partners. Serving

  • The Situation: practical PT

    Every day, Team Dover members encounter and overcome situations that test their experience and skill. In "The Situation", service members share their advice on how to face these challenges head-on, and overcome them. The Situation: All Air Force members can relate to the need to maintain their

  • The Situation: suppressing stressors

    Every day, Team Dover members encounter and overcome situations that test their experience and skill. In "The Situation", service members share their advice on how to face these challenges head-on, and overcome them. The Situation: Due to the high ops-tempo many squadrons experience, service members

  • A few thoughts on fitness

    Far too often, a failed fitness assessment is the subject of conversation in some form or another between service members. It has been almost 10 years since the Air Force implemented the current fitness program and clarified fitness standards as a job requirement, yet I see cases every week where

  • Shortcuts, discipline and safety

    I'm not a fan of Bob Villa; for the younger crowd who might not know who I'm talking about, just picture a live-action Bob the Builder. Just the sound of high-rpm power tools makes my middle finger ache. One week before graduation and commissioning, and two weeks before getting married, I was

  • What are your priorities?

    Priorities -- we all have them. Sometimes our priorities are shared by many, but other times they are not. Even if we do not share a priority with anyone, it still becomes important in our lives. What about goals? Goals are not things you just hope to accomplish, they too are priorities.Everyone who

  • The missing puzzle piece

    So there I was, sitting on the floor with my beautiful 4-year-old twin daughters, living every dad's dream -- putting together a Lightning McQueen puzzle (I know, you're jealous)! We were almost done; 47 of the 48 pieces in place, but where was that last piece? We couldn't find it anywhere. In my

  • Looking back on Hurricane Irene

    Please accept my heartfelt appreciation for all of your hard work leading up to and through Hurricane Irene. Whether it was filling over 2,000 sandbags by hand, evacuating an aircraft every hour for 18 hours, or preparing your homes and then evacuating your families - your accomplishments were

  • No better team … period

    If you go into the office of most senior leaders, you'd be hard pressed to find one who doesn't have a copy of at least one book on leadership in the top drawer of his or her desk. My experiences here at Dover, however, have provided so many real world leadership and teamwork lessons that I've found