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  • Mobility commander provides update on AF, AMC priorities

    To the Men and Women of Air Mobility Command: If the last 90 days are any indication, 2008 is turning out to be an amazing year for Air Mobility Command. Most recently, March was a record-setting month for mobility Airmen supporting the Global War on Terror. More than 120,000 passengers were

  • From the commander: Remembering the first year of the 'Eagles'

    Since the inception of the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center in March 2007, we have been preparing for the future by spreading the word on the EC's capability, its people and potential. People are hearing about what we are doing and want to come see for themselves. My confidence in you, and I

  • If I only had one minute with each of them

    In the spring of 2001, I made my first visit to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. I was attending some training at Fort Meade, Md., at the time and during one of the weekends I was there, I went with a classmate to see this famed cemetery of heroes. It's a big place where you can see rows

  • Fort Dix grinds combat mindset into Airmen

    I just returned from a training course where two people suffered concussions, one person dislocated his shoulder and one broke his hip, all during a two-week period. This is not a commentary about safety. It's about warrior ethos! I'm in the final stages of prep before deploying to Iraq, and now,

  • Mobility Operations School: ‘Velocity in training’

    Imagine looking out at a flightline in a thunderstorm and witnessing a fuel spill. You yell over to your expediter who immediately calls the Maintenance Operations Center. Within seconds, you hear the sirens and watch trucks arrive on the scene to contain the spill. Guess where you are -- you are

  • Leadership from the ‘heart’

    I was sitting in the front row of the auditorium in my son Jackson's school waiting for the spelling bee to start. I was anxious to see how Jackson would do amongst the best spellers in school. Once it started, he was the fifth person they called. His word was, "intermediate." He replies,