Commentaries

  • Resiliency matters

    Remember, everything is not about you! It’s about the Airmen and families around you more than you think … and they’re watching and feeding off of you. The reason I laced my boots this morning was because I know I have a family and a body of Airmen depending on me to be there for them today; they

  • Commentary: Deployment Challenges and Coping

    Rule shares his experiences and struggles with deployment during a past deployment as an Airman in operational control assigned to a U.S. Cavalry unit in Afghanistan and during post-deployment.

  • Flipping the “switch”… Are you really there?

    Stress can and does extend from work to family time and vice versa. What sets people apart is how they approach and deal with this inevitable crossroad. For too long, I was constantly working through my to-do list from the time I got home each night until I fell asleep. While I was physically