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  • Career Focus: Take care of your Airmen

    You hear it and read it everywhere: "Take care of your Airman." It is the Airman's roll call topic for Dec. 19, and the "Season for Caring." How do you take care of your Airmen if you don't know what their needs are? Here are three tools I have used to take care of my Airmen. First, get to know

  • Commander’s Corner: Recognizing AF 60th Anniversary participants

    We're at mid-December and close to wrapping up 2007, and concluding the chapter of a year-long celebration, commemorating 60 years of the U.S. Air Force. There have been a lot of events tied to that tribute, a lot of attention paid to just how far this service has come in just 60 years. In the words

  • Career Focus: Three life lessons learned

    It is with great honor that I introduce myself to you as your Team Kirtland career assistance advisor. I am Master Sgt. Mariana G. Sobolewski, originally born and raised in a small town northwest of Bakersfield, Calif., named Wasco to a die-hard Tex-Mex father and an immigrant mother from Mexico. My

  • Battle the ‘holiday blues’ this holiday season

    The other night, while flipping through the channels, I ran across a Christmas special on TV. It was an old one about the year without Santa Claus. In it, a little girl sang about having a "blue Christmas without you." It reminded me that this is a time of year when many people get the "blues."

  • Airmail: Drivers here are out of control! What can be done?

    Unsafe driving practices on base are becoming out of control! Is there anything that can be done? I have recently noticed a sharp increase of interest and concern regarding traffic violations on Kirtland AFB, specifically in our school zones, residential neighborhoods, and violations by those who

  • Career Focus: Many specialties but one team, one family

    It seems like yesterday that I wrote my first Career Focus article for the Nucleus. Actually, it was June of 2005. Writing this article has always been the strangest part of my duties because I'm not really comfortable with writing. I'm the crusty old aircraft mechanic who loves to fix problems

  • Commander’s Corner: How green is your Air Force?

    The Air Force has been practicing environmentally responsible decision-making for a long time. Beyond using renewable energy sources Air Force wide, you don't have to look far to see the important role Kirtland AFB is playing in protecting our environment here and in the communities around us. On

  • Airmail

    There seems to be a lack of safety at Paintbrush and the road leading to Sandia Base Elementary, what's being done about it? Traffic control can be a challenge with approximately 52,000 acres and over 100 associate units on the installation, especially near schools where large numbers of vehicle and