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  • Identifying, controlling asthma triggers

    Your breathing becomes difficult; your chest tightens; you begin to wheeze when you breathe or cough. An estimated 20 million Americans live with asthma, and you are one of them. You recognize these symptoms as typical of your condition, and have learned ways to manage and control your reactions to

  • AAFES to celebrate military retirees who ‘Still Serve’

    The Army & Air Force Exchange Service is extending special retirement benefits to former Soldiers and Airmen who shop their exchange during the annual "Still Serving" weekend Sept. 5-7. Invitations to this event, included in a "Salute to Your Service" sales flyer, are already hitting the mailboxes

  • New safety chief plans for ORI success

    Safety is an important part of Vandenberg's mission, whether it's launching rockets and missiles or mobilizing for deployment. Lt. Col. Craig Bomberg, 30th Space Wing chief of safety, recently assumed command and began preparing for a whole new world of safety as well as Vandenberg's upcoming

  • Vandenberg staff sergeant-selects list released

    Congratulations to the following Vandenberg senior airmen who were selected for promotion to staff sergeant:Defense Legal Services Agency SHAUN BUSTILLOS 2nd Range Operations Squadron JILLIAN VOYLES 614th Intelligence Squadron MICHELLE BARRAS TIMOTHY DIRKS BRITTANY MCDONALD TIERRA WILLIAMS 30th

  • Vandenberg officers promoted to colonel

    Congratulations to the the following lieutenant colonels who were selected for promotion to colonel:Craig Bomberg, 30th Space Wing James Hardy,  14th Air Force Lesa Toler,  576th Flight Test Squadron 

  • Vandenberg ALS graduates 15

    The Vandenberg Airman Leadership School held a graduation ceremony for Class 2008-Echo on Aug. 22. The 15 graduates were from Vandenberg and Los Angeles AFB. The John L. Levitow Award went to 30th Civil Engineer Squadron firefight Senior Airman Damean Moore. Staff Sgt. Heath Shepperd from the

  • Be smart, do your part: Vote

    As a nation, we are quickly approaching the point when we all have to make an extraordinarily important decision. On the 4th of November of this year we will go to the polls to elect the next President of the United States. Actually, that is an exaggeration. If recent trends hold true, only about 55

  • AFSPC Command Chief: 'Leadership is a contact sport'

    The commander of Air Force Space Command recently announced a command-wide initiative called the "Year of Leadership." I sat down with the AFSPC command chief, Chief Master Sgt. Todd Small and asked his thoughts on "why this initiative, why now, what it is about and what does the leadership expects

  • Airman's Roll Call: Quit tobacco

    This week's Airman's Roll Call offers Airmen who smoke a new resource to help them quit. The Web site, Quit Tobacco -- Make Everyone Proud, is an educational tool sponsored by Department of Defense officials to help servicemembers quit, both for themselves and for the people they care about. There

  • 'Perspective' addresses evaluation system

    In his latest "Enlisted Perspective," the Air Force's top enlisted Airman discusses the Airman evaluation system and how it should be accurate and grounded in integrity. "To truly develop our Airmen, we must accurately and honestly assess their strengths and weaknesses and chart their course to