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  • Off-duty Coast Guard members go 'Carting for a Cause'

    Off-duty U.S. Coast Guard members have set out on an adventure; one that involves "Carting for a Cause."Beginning April 29, these service members have set out to drive an electric-powered golf cart thousands of miles across more than 10 states, all in an effort to raise awareness for the Wounded

  • Recognize and respond: steps to notice and prevent child abuse

    Take a piece of paper. Crush it in your fist. Throw it to the ground. Scream at it. Release all your stresses of the day into that scrap of parchment. Now straighten it out.Obviously, you will still be able to see the wrinkles and the tears left from your actions. For a child who suffers abuse, they

  • Living through the abuse

    The year was 1981: MTV launched in the United States, Sandra Day O'Connor took her seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and President Ronald Regan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.It was also the year a 6-year old boy living in Oklahoma was introduced to the harsh reality of child

  • New Fathers Workshop: For fathers, by fathers

    Many parenting workshops are geared toward teaching expectant mothers the ins and outs of motherhood, but in today's society, fathers also play a large and active role in their children's lives.Luckily for these new and expecting fathers, resources are available at Langley to help them with the

  • Mountain Home celebrates Month of the Military Child

    The inside of the building was tidy and clean, lined with water fountains and chairs so small they almost seemed to scrape the ground. Suddenly a bell rang and the hallways swiftly filled with three-foot tall children charging their way to recess. Meanwhile, a hand-made Month of the Military Child

  • Simulated disasters promote joint endeavors

    When an area experiences catastrophic events on a larger scale than local, state and other federal agencies can handle, they can request military assistance, known as Defense Support of Civil Authorities.Pararescue squadrons from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and local Arizona emergency management

  • Against the current: JBLE youth selected top 5 of military children

    She cut through the water like a knife, her entire body operating in perfect synchronization with the pool - the product of years of training in multiple states and countries; a sacrifice resulting from living life as a military child. Cait Horner, daughter of U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Edward Horner,

  • Airman returns to flying status after having part of leg amputated

    Senior Airman Justus Bosquez is a pioneer and an inspiration, but not in an obvious way. When he walks down a narrow hallway in his Airman Battle Uniform, he looks no different than his peers. Like many of them, he can do salsa, merengue and two-step dances. He can run a marathon wearing a 30-pound

  • PTSD: many struggle, few tell

    When you meet an Air Force gunner, what's the first thing you want to hear? "War" stories, right? You want to hear what missions he's been on, what he's seen, and where he's been. You might sit in awe as you hear about when he was a first responder after the attacks on the World Trade Center on

  • The art of survival

    Survival is the foundation of all human instinct, yet for many, the struggle for life is composed of skills rarely used or long forgotten, skills all but replaced by the modern comforts of the 21st century. Jack London once wrote, "I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live