• Senior Airman Daniel Dalton in Silver Talon spotlight

    Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio Organization: 71st Medical Support Squadron Duty Title: Medical Logistics Technician Time on Silver Talon team: Two years What has been the best part of serving on the Silver Talon team? "Being able to show my respect for everyone who has served before me." What do you

  • Medical Corner: Interval training can improve you PT score

    There are two training principles essential to every form of exercise -- specificity and overtraining. Most people in the Air Force get plenty of specificity, running 1.5 miles over and over again. Though this is better than doing nothing, those who do nothing but that kind of training are

  • Senior Airman Seth Lake in Silver Talon spotlight

    Hometown: Humphreys, Mo.Organization: 71st Communications Squadron Duty Title: Airfield Systems JourneymanTime on Silver Talon Team: Nineteen months What has been the best part of serving on the Silver Talon team? "The friends I have made." What do you enjoy about the Air Force? "The sense of

  • Check your lines: Grooming essential for sharp look

    You can't look sharp if your grooming falls short of expectations. The Air Force standard for hair is designed to present a dependable, conservative, functional image that demonstrates the clean-cut and reliable nature of the military. If you look sharp there is a natural assumption that you are

  • Medical Corner: Gastroenteritis – what it is, how to avoid it

    When you come down with the stomach flu, it isn't important that you're not really dealing with influenza viruses. How you got it and what to do about it is much higher on your priority list. Your case of the stomach flu is called gastroenteritis. It means inflammation of the stomach and small and

  • Check your lines: Phone courtesy is sign of a professional

    Next to e-mail, we use the telephone for conducting most of our day-to-day business. A telephone call requires courtesy and interaction to be successful. Some of our Team Vance members have a natural gift for answering the phone. They make you glad you decided to call. You can hear a smile in their

  • Senior Airman Sigmund Tanseco in Silver Talon spotlight for January

    Hometown: Union, N.J. Organization: 71st Medical Operations Squadron Duty title: Aerospace Physiology Journeyman Time on Silver Talon Team: Fifteen months What has been the best part of serving on the Silver Talon team? "Getting a chance to honor those who served and representing the Air Force as a

  • Team up with dentist to ensure your child's dental health

    Wouldn't it be nice if dental care for kids had a schedule like immunizations does? Often times parents, both new and experienced, ask me when their child should have their first dental visit, when should they start braces, when will their baby teeth fall out, when should their wisdom teeth get

  • Honoring King's dream of diversity

    We have the opportunity to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, and give life to his inspiring words spoken during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1964 -- "I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow." These, along

  • Check your lines: Reveille and Retreat

    The French military and political leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, is credited with saying, "A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon." That colored ribbon, a medal or other award, motivates because of what it represents in the eyes of the military recipient and of his fellow