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  • Where do you fit into the big picture?

    Here's a quick story for you. In 2006, Senior Airman Phillip M. King was leading a convoy on a quiet street in Ebrahimkhel, just north of Kandahar, when a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) landed near his Humvee, followed by a hail of machine-gun fire from a nearby fortified compound. He moved his

  • Another level of teamwork experienced at MacDill

    Many have heard the expression, "there is no 'I' in team." Even an elementary school student knows the spelling of the word team, t-e-a-m. The expression, there is no I in team references a concept; the statement is a shadow and its substance or essence must be sought elsewhere. The substance of the

  • Military equal opportunity + your support = positive relations

    Things have certainly changed...for the better! In January 1996, as a staff sergeant, I entered into what was known as the social actions career field, now military equal opportunity. Back then, it was a lonely world for my colleagues and me because there was a negative stigma attached to the social

  • Cultivate your creativity to find that SHAZAM moment

    You are given nine gold coins. They all look identical, but one is half a gram lighter than the other eight. The weight difference is impossible to measure by human touch. You are then given a scale that looks like the scales of justice. The task is to find the light coin, by making only two