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  • My Job is Prosecuting Sexual Assault

    Here's a simple truth...sexual offenders reject our core values of integrity, service and excellence, in favor of following their own base, undisciplined, criminal desires. Most sexual assaults committed by Airmen are "blue on blue," or Airmen victimizing other Airmen. So in addition to rejecting

  • Cleaning more than just the streets

    Airmen in the 1st Special Operations Civil Engineer Squadron's horizontal shop operate street sweepers on a daily basis. You might think that what they are doing is only for aesthetics or base beautification. It does improve base appearance, but there's a lot more to it than just that.An equally

  • Mentoring Beyond Borders: Leadership - What it Takes

    Editor's Note: Mentoring Beyond Borders is a series focused on Airmen from different geographic locations sharing various lessons learned from their mentors. This is the second installment in the series. I thought I had a fairly complete idea of what leadership meant before I arrived at Hurlburt

  • Summer safety: Know the signs of heat stress

    It's that time of year again when sunny Florida lives up to its name. However, with an increase in temperatures, there's an increase for potential heat stress incidents.When the environmental temperature rises above that of your body, the only way for your body to cool itself down is through

  • Critical Days of Summer: It's personal!

    The Critical Days of Summer campaign is an annual safety campaign starting on Memorial Day weekend and running through Labor Day weekend. The Air Force theme for this year's campaign is titled "It's Personal." According to the Air Force Safety Center, the objective of the 2012 CDS campaign is to

  • Resiliency and Alcohol: Know the risks, limits

    The DoD Center of Excellence for Psychological Health defines Resiliency as "the ability to withstand, recover and/or grow in the face of stressors and changing demands." To further enhance Airman, organizational and community resilience, Air Force leaders launched the Comprehensive Airman Fitness

  • Sizzling Summer Safety

    Every year Americans look forward to summer vacation, traveling, camping, family reunions and picnics. However, outdoor activities bring the risk of fire and injuries due to outdoor cooking and grilling accidents and improper use of flammable liquids. Annually more than 8,000 Americans are injured

  • Surviving rape - a mother's perspective

    It began with the phone ringing at 5:00 a.m., never a good time for a phone call. It was my 18-year-old daughter sobbing, saying she was at the police station. I asked her what she had done (not my best parenting moment.) She said she had been raped, and my heart stopped. I told her that she was not

  • 'Sugar bug' defense for 'Sweet Tooth'

    The Easter bunny is hopping into town, and with that comes smiling children uncovering hidden sweet treats to eat. While children may just be worried about eating their chocolate rabbits and other goodies, parents are concerned about safeguarding their children's smiles from the damage of candies'

  • Getting s-s-serious about snakes

    The Air Force and Hurlburt Field have made a commitment to be good stewards of the environment. One of the positive outcomes of this decision is that we at Hurlburt Field are able to live in a community that includes numerous and varied natural areas interspersed throughout the base for our