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  • April is Child Abuse Prevention Month

    Why do I care? I worked for years in Florida in Child Protective Services.I obtained my Master of Social Work in 1996, and I have been a licensed clinical social worker since 2001.I saw children with marks and bruises after they had been beaten with objects. I saw children, after they had been

  • Your BAH at Work

    Nellis Family Housing provides military families a quality home environment and amenities including a pool, playgrounds, community center, and fitness center for the enjoyment of the residents.The basic allowance for housing you transfer monthly covers rent, security patrols, fire protection,

  • Gifts between employees

    As the summer permanent change of station season approaches, it is important all Department of Defense employees understand the ethics rules on gifts between employees.Oftentimes, a gift will be given to show appreciation to a departing individual. Although these gifts are common practice, there are

  • Stress; coping with Reality

    "Deal with it" is a phrase most people know all too well.How does one struggle through the everyday leaps and bounds of life? When the world crumbles at your feet and all feels lost, do you throw in the flag of resistance, or do you cope with the struggles of life and push through adversity? As a

  • Just 'FEZ' It

    He was 7,023 miles from his home, serving an air and space expeditionary force rotation in Afghanistan when the news rang out like a mortar attack siren: Maj. Greg "Fez" Dash was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. The diagnosis was terminal. Dash passed away in February, and

  • Keeping family bond throughout deployment

    Deployments are different after you have a child. I just never realized how different deployments would be once I became a parent. This deployment I am a mother. Sometimes I wonder how a mother could leave her 1-year-old baby like I have done, as if I am abandoning my child in some way, but then I

  • Weapons School program back up, running

    USAF Weapons School Class 13B was cancelled as a result of sequestration and marked a significant event in the history of the weapons school. The school was at a cross-road. The fiscal realities of the future meant difficult choices about the future of the school had to be made. Initial proposals

  • Diversity is strength of MDG Biomedical Sciences Corps

    The Biomedical Sciences Corps celebrates the 49th anniversary of Special Order CA-5 that established the Air Force Medical Services BSC Jan. 28, and everyone is invited to celebrate with the BSC until Jan. 31.The Air Force Medical Service Corps includes the Nurse Corps, Medical Corps, Dental Corps,

  • Detached supervision breeds average performance

    Growing up as a child, I got in trouble for getting a "C" grade for my school work and it reflected on my report card. My mother, actively involved in my childhood development, instilled an ethos: "There is an enemy called average; you are not average and an average score isn't acceptable." Some of

  • Environmental element stresses recycling importance

    Recycling...one of the three continuous processes in the Reduce, Reuse, Recycling calculus, is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and are instead, turned into new products.Benefits to recycling include reducing the amount of waste sent to