• The enlisted perspective -- analog leadership in digital times

    The United States Air Force is the world's most advanced air, space and cyberspace force. Most of that can be attributed to you -- our outstanding Airmen -- but technology also plays a huge role.Advanced tools help us maintain an advantage over our adversaries. Technology has enabled our continuing

  • 19th Air Force inactivates, General Solo retires

    Nineteenth Air Force stood down in an inactivation ceremony July 12 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, after more than 19 years of managing flying training for all of Air Education and Training Command.During the ceremony, Maj. Gen. Mark Solo, 19th AF commander, joined Gen. Edward Rice, AETC

  • Two Ghost Riders selected for below-the-zone promotion

    Two Airmen from the 71st Operations Support Squadron were the selected for promotion to Senior Airman below-the-zone July 3.Airman 1st Class Devin Courtney, an aviation resource manager, and Airman 1st Class Cody O'Connell, an air traffic controller, were called to the break room of the Radar

  • Keep your personal electronic devices out of government ports

    I'm looking at the universal-serial-bus-(USB)-device-violations report that is always waiting bright and early Monday morning. There are two events identified that stand out from all the others.At 7:27 a.m. and 8:14 a.m., someone on base connected an iPod to a government computer. The second event

  • Airmen have limits on exercising civil liberties

    The idea of any government organization restricting the rights of citizens leaves a sour taste in the mouth of many Americans, especially in the Midwest, the heart of America, where patriotism runs deep.Civil liberties were enshrined to protect the rights of the individual. However, when military