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  • Bird's Eye View: Our time to shine

    After more than two years of preparing and enhancing our wartime deployment skills and emergency management responses, it's time to show the world what I've known all along -- Team Edwards is ready! The Air Force Materiel Command Inspector General's team will arrive here Thursday to evaluate our

  • Bird's Eye View: Family Day is today, President's Day is Monday

    The nation celebrates Presidents' Day on Monday; a day set aside to honor two of our nation's many legendary presidents -- Abraham Lincoln and our country's first president, George Washington. Until 1971, both Feb. 12 and Feb. 22 were observed as federal public holidays to honor the birthdays of

  • Bird's Eye View: Edwards practices to make perfect

    I'm proud of you. That's not something I say very often in this column, but after last week's Operational Readiness Exercise, it needs to be said. Our Air Force Flight Test Center Inspector General has said this most recent ORE was the best we've done so far. Honestly, this doesn't surprise me.

  • Bird's Eye View: Edwards represented at Junior Miss Antelope Valley Pageant

    This past Saturday, Robyle and I had the opportunity to attend the Junior Miss Antelope Valley Pageant in Palmdale. I was invited at the request of Staff Sgt. Jeanetta Racy, whose daughter, A'Lexis Price, was representing Edwards after being selected as the Junior Miss Edwards in 2006.A'Lexis, who

  • General Comments: It's Groundhog Day!

    Today is Groundhog Day. It is not a federal holiday; it is not a family day; and no one gets off work. Sorry. But still, having a day named after you is quite a feat -- even if you are just a woodchuck -- a.k.a. groundhog.German immigrants brought us the tradition of looking to an animal as a

  • Edwards readies for last exercise prior to ORI

    Last dance, last chance ... OK, OK, so an Operational Readiness Exercise isn't a dance, but it is a highly choreographed event that requires everyone to be on their game for "the show to go on." And like the theater, it is important to get a good write-up from the critics. Our next ORE runs from

  • Airman provides insight on Camp Corum IG excursion

    Under the 105-degree sweltering sun and dust literally everywhere I looked, I was beginning to wonder if I would survive July 26.This day, I was assigned to attend an excursion. Excursion ... that's so easy, you might say. However, this is not your ordinary excursion. This training is designed to

  • Airman reflects on true meaning of Wingmen

    In today's Air Force culture we often hear people reference Wingmen. It has become almost cliché -- "Do you have a Wingman?"But really? Who are these mystical little creatures, this race or culture who is supposed to take care of us? I've been thinking about it a lot lately. Maybe because my time in

  • JAGs take 'battle' against terrorism to Iraqi court

    When I passed the bar exam in July 2003, I never imagined I would present criminal cases in an Iraqi court. Although I was already an Air Force officer with almost nine years of military experience, I thought at most I might have to deploy to Iraq to work in a legal office taking care of the needs

  • Conserve gas, drive less

    "Gas prices are ridiculous."There is little doubt this sentiment has been expressed by every person swiping a credit card at the gas pumps. With gas prices more than 20 cents higher than they were after Hurricane Katrina, it may seem like there is no relief in sight. It's all about supply and