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  • (U.S. Air Force graphic by Staff Sgt. Benjamin W. Stratton/Released)

    Keeping the beat: Make heart healthy choices

    Many Americans associate the heart with love, especially in the month of February. This month is American Heart Month affording time for learning about the risks associated with heart disease and stroke by staying "heart healthy.""Eating nutritious foods, exercising and staying tobacco free are all great ways to begin building heart healthy habits
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    Social fitness: Cultivate healthy relationships with family, friends

    Airmen work hard every day to get the mission accomplished, but sometimes, they inadvertently neglect maintaining healthy relationships with their family and friends.There are many studies showing that social isolation is a significant health risk factor. In fact, the negative health risks of social isolation has been shown to be comparable to the
  • (U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Staff Sgt. Alexandre Montes/Released)

    Watch, take action of Wingmen displaying suicidal signs

    According to Air Force statistics, suicide continues to be the second leading cause of death for Air Force personnel surpassed only by vehicle accidents. Suicidal behavior is complex. Some risk factors vary with age, gender or ethnic group and may occur in combination or change over time. The most common risk factors are depression and other mental
  • Senior Airman David Peterson, 92nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, plays his trumpet during a practice session at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Dec. 16, 2013. Peterson often volunteers to stand in as a live bugler to play Taps during military honors at veteran funerals. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Taylor Curry/Released)

    Maintainer honors the fallen

    During many funerals, the base honor guard performs Taps, a musical piece usually played from a bugle or trumpet, to honor a fallen veteran. Most of the time, the honor guard team will use a bugle with a recording placed inside because finding a live musician with the skill to play is hard to come by. But with Senior Airman David Peterson, no
  • Mike Olson, a 92nd Maintenance Squadron Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory electric technician and a Forest Hills, Md., native, isolates signals and corrects the bandwidth using filters on navigation equipment at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Nov. 5, 2013. PMEL is responsible for calibrating equipment used in virtually every phase of maintenance for nearly every piece of equipment the Air Force operates. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Benjamin W. Stratton/Released)

    PMEL prolongs equipment effectiveness

    There's no margin of error when lives are on the line making the Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory here such an integral part of Fairchild Air Force Base's mission."PMEL is responsible for calibrating equipment used in virtually every phase of maintenance for nearly every piece of equipment the Air Force operates," said Barry Bigler, the
  • Danny Graves puts on sparring mitts during a boxing session he teaches at the fitness center at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Sept. 19, 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Taylor Curry/Released)

    Boxing veteran trains ringside with Fairchild Airmen

    Growing up in a professional boxing home, with constant training, matches and running his family's boxing camp, Coach Danny Graves has grown to appreciate the fine art of his intense sport and now shares that appreciation with Fairchild Airmen. Graves, age 68, is currently a coach for the USA Amateur Boxing Association, working in the base fitness

  • Essay winner wins for the second year in a row

    Club members and their families were given the opportunity to win an Air Force Clubs Membership Scholarship this year by submitting a one page 500 word essay on "who or what inspires you to be successful and why?"A total of 156 entries were submitted to the Directorate of Services, Operations Division, Food and Beverage Branch, Joint Base San
  • One of the four pillars of Comprehensive Airmen Fitness is mental health and the bases Mental Health Flight emphasizes taking care of yourself, maintaining connections, taking time for yourself, taking time to look at yourself, challenging yourself and asking or seeking help to stay mentally healthy. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Staff Sgt. Michael Means/ Released)

    Staying Mentally Healthy

    Editor's Note: This article is the second in a 4-part series on Comprehensive Airman Fitness. The goal of CAF is to help Airmen, Air Force civilians and family members become more resilient and better-equipped to deal with the rigors of military life by promoting mental, spiritual, social and physical fitness. This week's article focuses on mental
  • Harley and Amber Wicks pose for a picture with their newborn triplets and Harley’s older son Parker McKinney following Harley’s July 15, 2013, return from his deployment. The triplets were born about four months into Harley’s six-and-a-half-month deployment. (Courtesy photo)

    Airman becomes father to triplets while deployed

    Deploying can be a disorienting experience in and of itself. Senior Airman Harley Wicks, 19th Logistics Readiness Squadron Air Transportation at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., left for Afghanistan the day after Christmas last year knowing that he was about to be the father of triplets.Wick's wife, Amber, became essentially a single parent and a
  • Lt. Col. Matthew Albright, 92nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron aerospace physiological training flight commander, instructs a student of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps from Rogers High School on an aircraft piloting simulator at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., April 19, 2013. The students received a base tour that held stops at the survival, evasion, resistance and escape water survival training facility, physiology and the military working dog section. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Taylor Curry)

    Aerospace and Operational Physiology prepares Airmen for worst case scenario

    Imagine flying a plane mid mission and you begin experiencing symptoms of hypoxia, a condition where the body as a whole or region of the body is deprived of an adequate amount of oxygen. Would you know what to do?Here at Fairchild, a tanker pilot or boom operator's focus is essential to mission success, and they have to be prepared for any
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