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  • September 11th by the numbers

    In the month of September, 121 months after the tragedies of September 11th 2001, let's take 5 minutes to remember a crucial reason we all serve ... by the numbers ...19 is the number of attackers who boarded airplanes in the morning of September 11th, 2001.70 is the number of minutes it took to

  • Teamwork with a capital V

    From 1987 through 1994, Brenda and I were stationed at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. There were many things I saw and experienced there which I had never seen or experienced before. I went ice fishing for the very first time in my life (and most likely the very last time in my life). I saw the Aurora

  • Lorenz on Leadership--Love Your People

    I have gained a wealth of knowledge during my career, but one point remains at the top of the list ... love your people. Through Lorenz on Leadership articles and presentations, I have shared countless personal stories. While they always have different themes, one constant is the wonderful examples

  • Leslie Lorenz on Leadership -- Spouse Wingmen

    I recently met two young military wives. I was so happy to meet these bright, young, eager, new spouses as they and their husbands begin an exciting career in our wonderful Air Force. Randolph AFB is the first assignment for one of the couples. They are originally from the northeast and come from

  • Lorenz on Leadership -- Professional advocacy

    As a service member, I have fought for programs and resources throughout my career. In many cases these battles were a matter of advocacy -- my opportunity to fight for things I believed in. I began facing these challenging moments within days of my entry into military service. As a result, I have

  • Lorenz on Leadership - The intellectual resource

    Today, we are approaching nine years of sustained combat operations. Many could even argue that our Air Force has been involved in continuous combat operations since the original Gulf War in 1991. Even more challenging, today's combat operations are being conducted while the rest of the nation

  • Backbone of the Air Force

    We all learn through experience and sometimes it's helpful to distill a collective group of experiences into one or two "golden nuggets" of insight. One of these nuggets came from my time in the Air Mobility Squadron in Ramstein, Germany from 2003 to 2005. As the primary trans-load hub for cargo

  • Proper procedure plus good maintenance discipline is a recipe for success!

    The importance of aircraft maintenance being performed with and by the prescribed rules, publications, regulations and technical guidance goes without saying. The same rules apply to all Air Force disciplines. We are all professionals; aircrews follow checklists; CE uses prescribed repair manuals,

  • Find balance in your military life

    What a "roller coaster" ride we live as military members! Many times we struggle to find balance in our lives as we manage day-to-day mission requirements, high deployment operations, and the proverbial "doing more with less." These demands can be both physically and emotionally exhausting but we

  • Lorenz on Leadership -- Sustaining a wingman culture

    On April 20, a 22-year-old man with a history of violence walked into a bookstore in Wichita Falls, Texas, and started shooting. He wounded four women, then drove to a bar and killed an employee outside before he drove home and took his own life. This tragedy sounds like so many we hear about on the