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  • Saving the Brave: Doctors' Day honors sacrifice of doctors

    Navy clinical psychologist Heidi Kraft, Ph.D., learned her toughest lesson in Iraq. She wrote a moving memoir, "Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital," about her time serving and titled it after a line from the television show M*A*S*H: "There are two rules of war. Rule number one

  • Chaplain assistant trumps competition, becomes "Biggest Loser"

    Editor's Note: This is the final article in a series chronicling fitness exploits of Ellsworth Airmen. As he confidently stepped on the scale, Staff Sgt. Kevin Pike, 28th Bomb Wing chaplain assistant, surpassed a goal he had set for himself eight weeks before when he was named the Bellamy Fitness

  • Only one shot hits the wellness bull's eye

    If the phrase "Fit to Fight" doesn't inspire one to adopt a healthy lifestyle, how does "You're drilling a hole in your own pocketbook" sound? New scientific evidence shows being fat is a good way to thin out the amount of money one has in the bank. "Obese people spend approximately $485 more on

  • A better life in Afghanistan

    "The Afghani people want a better life in Afghanistan," said Master Sgt. Dewane Brown, Medical Embedded Training Team mentor at a forward operating base in Afghanistan. "They want a life without war and a reason to live." Sergeant Brown is normally assigned as the NCO-in-charge of medical logistics

  • "Biggest Loser" participants rise to challenge; Part 2 of a series

    After an extensive spinal fusion surgery in June 2007, Staff Sgt. Kevin Pike, 28th Bomb Wing chaplain assistant, was forced to refrain from intense physical activity for most of 2008; limiting his ability to stay-in-shape and unintentionally causing him to gain 20 pounds. His decision to participate

  • "Biggest Loser" participants pummel pounds

    Editor's Note: This is the first article in a series chronicling fitness exploits of Ellsworth Airmen.By stepping on the scale, Staff Sgt. Kevin Pike, 28th Bomb Wing chaplain assistant, and Senior Airman Patricia Harvey, 28th Force Support Squadron fitness specialist, enter more than a measurement

  • The long hard road; EOD challenges

    Under the heat of the Iraqi sun and the weight of an 80-pound protective bomb suit, it's difficult for a person to perform normal movements let alone attempting to dismantle or investigating unexploded ordnance devices. The men and women serving within the 28th Civil Engineer Explosive Ordnance

  • Native American Airman proud of roots

    For the past 18 years, the military has observed November as a time to reflect and acknowledge the efforts and accomplishments given to national defense by Native Americans. Senior Airman David Whiting, 28th Medical Support Squadron diagnostic imaging technician, is a Native American who grew-up on

  • Bloody good training

    In the United States, roughly 2,575,000 people are injured in vehicle accidents, one is injured in a fire-related accident every 32 minutes and 27,731,818 are injured in unintentional accidents annually, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Bureau of Transportation

  • Special Forces soldier not your average USAF marathoner

    (Editor's note: Sergeant Ivan Castro became a U.S. Army Ranger in 1992. Upon his commission, in February 2004, 2nd Lt. Castro became an infantry officer, waiting until his promotion to captain. He then could be reassigned to a unit within U.S. Army Special Operations Command's elite Special Forces,