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  • A Note from Your Chaplain - June 2022 UTA

    Welcome to June UTA,Last month as I visited our units, I asked the question, “What keeps you going during the challenges of life?”The answers included: spending time with nature, lifting weights, working out, talking it through with friends, playing video games, choking people out in jujitsu, taking

  • May is Mental Health Awareness Month

    May is Mental Health Awareness Month and a great time of year to bring awareness to mental health issues and available resources. Mental health affects all of us. It has a big influence on our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Creating a culture where seeking help is brave will reduce stigma and

  • Mental health awareness and my story

    Today the importance of mental health and treatment for mental illness is taken more seriously. Mental illness, like any physical injury, can be healed. Sometimes it can heal on its own like a cut or a bruise, but oftentimes, because of its severity, it takes medical intervention to treat it, like a

  • Staying cyber safe over Memorial Day weekend

    Officially, Memorial Day in the United States is the day we set aside to remember and honor those members of the Armed Forces who have fallen in battle defending our liberty. Unofficially, though, many people see this weekend as the start of the summer travel season, and will be hitting the beach to

  • CAPACITY, ACCESSIBILITY AND VALUE

    About six months ago, I had the honor of representing our nation at the annual NATO days in the Czech Republic. The primary focus of my visit was to continue to strengthen military-to‑military relationships across the alliance. Foremost in the minds of our allies was increasing Russian aggression. I

  • EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT LEADERSHIP

    As I look back on the past year, we have seen some crises begin to wane. Operation Allies Refuge and Operation Allies Welcome safely resettled more than 70,000 Afghans into the United States. The effectiveness of our pandemic response has enabled nearly all of our bases to return to Health

  • Sampson scratches, sneezes and stinks

    Allergies are annoying, especially when Sampson starts licking obsessively at his feet in the middle of the night in your bedroom. Sampson is also annoyed by the itch he can’t seem to get rid of. Fortunately, we’re here to help with knowledge, experience and products during this blooming time of

  • Department of Defense Launches New Cyber Awareness Campaign

    The first email in history was sent in 1971, by a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson. Later that same year the first computer virus, a simple worm-type program named Creeper, was written and released by Bob Thomas. For the few months in between, none of the very few people who had access to email

  • After high school: Talking with your young adult about underage drinking

    High school students typically graduate in late May or possibly early June. While they’re wrapping up high school studies, high school seniors make important decisions about the rest of their lives. Some choose to pursue a college degree immediately, and others may decide to join the workforce or

  • Servant Leaders

    Many individuals feel that servant leadership is an oxymoron because they do not feel they can serve and lead at the same time: they are incorrect. Servant leaders put the needs of their followers above their own, and in turn their followers continue to grow and prosper in the organization. Servant