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May sidewalk sales to offer discounts on everyday items at stateside commissaries DeCA Corporate Communications FORT LEE, Va. — Commissary customers stateside can enjoy significant savings while stocking up on their favorite items during the Defense Commissary Agency’s Military Appreciation Month Sidewalk Sale event in May. “We are striving to be our customers’ grocery provider of choice,” said Bonita Moffett, DeCA’s director of sales. “These sidewalk sales help us do that by offering our stateside military members and their families a chance to realize extra savings during Military Appreciation Month.” Weather permitting, most commissaries will have a three- or four-day outdoor weekend sidewalk sale event, featuring extra savings on a variety of everyday items. Event dates are subject to change, so patrons are encouraged to check the sidewalk sale web page for their store’s sale dates or talk to their store manager for more details or updates. Customers have a variety of options to choose from. Sale items may include products such as cold cereals, snacks (nuts, chips, candy), flavored water and juices, energy drinks, beverages, pet food, international foods, baking goods, canned goods, nonfood items (paper towels, toilet paper, wipes, cleaning products), baby products, and health and beauty products. Overseas customers should contact their local stores to see what specific promotions are occurring in their community. “We can never thank our military enough for their dedicated service,” Moffett said. “However, at DeCA we can ensure we do our best to deliver a commissary benefit with the quality and savings they deserve.”

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Trust, training earn reservist’s daughter gold 349th Public Affairs Staff TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Emily Bradley, 14, set a new Mount Van Hoevenberg track record on March 15, as the youngest bobsledder to pilot a sled from the highest point of a 1-mile track at Lake Placid, New York. Her inspiration and mentor is none other than her father, Tech. Sgt. Michael Bradley of the 301st Airlift Squadron at Travis Air Force Base. The aviation manager holds an impressive bobsled resume, including competing in the 2006 and 2010 U.S. Bobsled Team trials while assigned to the U.S. Air Force World Class Athlete Program. Not every father can watch as his daughter speeds down a track at 80 mph. Bradley will never forget the first time he ever pushed his daughter down the track. “It was gut-wrenching until she would get to the bottom,” Bradley said. “Emily just loved it! Now I know how my mom must have felt when she pushed me down the track the first time.” He described passing down bobsledding to his daughter as surreal, but a proud moment for him. Emily first became interested in bobsledding after watching the U.S. Women’s team win gold and silver at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The women were making history in the monobob event that was featured for the first time in competition category. After the televised games ended, the elder Bradley knew his daughter was

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The new future of Air Mobility Liaison Officer training Staff Sgt. Sarah Brice

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National Pet Month: During May, commissaries offer best prices on pet products Kathy Milley

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JOINT BASE MCGUIREDIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. — With constant, real-world demands on an aging fleet of aircraft, out-of-the-box thinking is the linchpin for big changes in the way the U.S. Air Force trains its specialized air mobility officers. Air Mobility Liaison Officers, or AMLOs, are senior Air Force pilots and navigators, hand-selected for training on everything from doctrine and command relationships to the complexities of aircraft landing zone and drop zone operations, radio communications, and the cultural differences between the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps. “AMLOs are stationed worldwide,” said Lt. Col. Andrew Baker, Air Mobility Liaison Officers Qualification Course director. “Their mission is to ensure our sister services know how to utilize AMC airlift to better support their mission. AMLOs eliminate those friction points so the mobility enterprise

FORT LEE, Va. – Pets fill our lives with unconditional love and loyalty, smiles and snuggles, teaching us daily how to find joy in the simplest things. During May’s National Pet Month, commissaries offer new and innovative pet products, giving our patrons new ways to reward their pet’s unwavering devotion. “Pets are vitally important family members, but can be touchstones for the transient military family. Understanding their importance to our military customers, we want to be sure we offer the best products at the best prices to ensure a long and healthy life for the important military family pet,” said Bonita Moffett, the Defense Commissary Agency’s director of sales. During National Pet Month, commissaries and their industry partners are offering new innovations in pet products and exceptional deals and giveaways. n Perfect Litter cat litter: lighter, clumping litter with exclusive wellness indicator that changes the color of the litter

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U.S. Air Force Maj. Jacob Hiles, an Air Mobility Liaison Officer Qualification Course student, controls the drop zone for a C-130 Hercules equipment drop, at Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colo. The course trains 10-15 AMLOs twice a year. There are a currently a little more than 55 AMLOs actively stationed across the globe. operates smoothly.” In order to train others and multiply force capabilities, Air Mobility Liaison Officers need to be proficient in their specialty. This is done through an eight-week Air Mobility Liaison Officer Qualification Course offered by the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Operations School. The Air Mobility Liaison

Officers Qualification Course class consists of six weeks of inclass training at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, followed by two weeks of field training in Colorado. The entire first week in the field, students receive handson experience coordinating and communicating with Air Mobility Command aircraft during

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To help counter rising prices, stateside commissaries launch massive Commissary Store Brands Price Shield Event DeCA Corporate Communications FORT LEE, Va. — Throughout the month of May, more than 900 Commissary Store Brand products will be priced at least 20% below on-shelf national brand equivalents during the Defense Commissary Agency’s Commissary Store Brands Price Shield Event. The event takes place at stateside commissaries, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. The agency is working with its private-label supplier SpartanNash to launch one of the commissaries’ largest Commissary Store Brands events to date,

said Jim Flannery, acting executive director of DeCA’s Sales, Marketing and Logistics Group. “If you haven’t been to the commissary lately now is the time to return for huge savings,” Flannery said. “In this time of inflation, our Commissary Store Brands are fighting the good fight against rising prices with at least an extra 20-30-percent off our already low commissary prices.” Commissary Store Brands categories include Freedom’s Choice (food items), Homebase

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Command strengthens resilience through scenario-based stress inoculation training Sean P. Houlihan HEADQUARTERS AIR FORCE RESERVE COMMAND

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. — Air Force Reserve Command’s Develop Resilient Leaders team recently completed a stress inoculation scenario-based training workshop to develop scenarios and build a framework for policy, training plans and tracking processes across the command. “One DRL line of effort is to build resilient leaders through stress inoculation interwoven into challenging, realistic training,” said Chief Master Sgt. Jonathan Rapelje, Develop Resilient Leaders operations chief in Air Force Reserve Command’s Directorate of Manpower, Personnel and Services (A1) here. “This will provide insight into the attributes associated with both resilience and the warrior ethos, and

prepare members for the highend fight.” Develop Resilient Leaders team members will focus on the deliberate development of leadership skills without unnecessarily extending the length of training requirements. While training typically induces stressors, the impact of those stressors are rarely evaluated. Develop Resilient Leaders’ approach is to transition from simple stress induction to stress inoculation by focusing on stress response and engaged feedback.” The chief went on to say the Develop Resilient Leaders team is incorporating stress inoculation principles into job qualification standards training tasks. This will help promote competence, boost confidence in airmen and their teams and encourage a conscientious mindset for accomplishing the mission while caring for oneself and other

people while not disturbing required training during a unit training assembly. Stress inoculation principles are currently in phase two of field testing within five Air Force specialty codes in an effort to validate the information before the Develop Resilient Leaders team goes command-wide with the program. The five Air Force specialty codes are 2T2 – Air Transportation, 3E3 – Structural, 3F0 – Personnel, 3P0 – Security Forces and 4N0 – Aerospace Medicine. Chief Master Sgt. Raymond Ross Jr., Air Force Reserve Command’s Air Transportation functional area manager, said

the 2T2 career field being included in the initial fielding is important since 2T2 reservists maintain a high deployment tempo. “We are building our aerial porters to be resilient leaders regardless of rank,” he said. “We need physically and mentally prepared airmen who are ready to execute the mission when it is their time to deploy.” Ross said the goal is to develop real-world scenarios for the more than 5,000 airmen in the career field that will allow them to respond appropriately to stressful situations they may encounter while performing their duties. The 32nd Aerial Port

Squadron, Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania, the 70th Aerial Port Squadron, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, and the 80th Aerial Port Squadron, Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, are currently involved with phase two field testing. Throughout 2022, new units will be added to each of the five career fields at the rate of three units per quarter until all wings have been added. This metered approach to beta testing will allow the Develop Resilient Leaders team to assess progress, make changes and face challenges head-on.

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budget submission, but we also want to ensure that the Committee understands that hard choices do lie ahead, at any conceivable budget level,” Kendall told the House Armed Services Committee in the first of a series of hearings to examine the Department’s priorities, plans and budget request for the next fiscal year. “Change is hard, but losing is unacceptable,” Kendall told lawmakers in a three-hour session that also featured Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown

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was brought on board for the new aircraft training at the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Operations School. “I was in awe of how much training we got this time around compared to what I saw a couple of years ago,” said Baker, who explained students previously only had a couple of chances to coordinate aircraft. “Now, if you make a mistake with your first call, you get

another nine chances to make it right,” Baker said. “It’s good because the students can go out into their operating locations after they’ve moved on from our training and feel more confident. Whether you’re controlling a C-130 or an AC-208, the procedures and communications are exactly the same.” C-130s and C-17 Globemaster IIIs are still necessary for moving large amounts of cargo, equipment and personnel worldwide and Air Mobility Liaison Officers will continue to be trained to work with these gray tail aircraft. However, smaller and more mobile aircraft can support troops at a lower scale when flexibility and speed are key. “An AC-208 isn’t going to keep an entire base alive for 24 hours, but for forward operating bases and combat outposts it does just fine,” Hoffmeyer said. Positive remarks have been flowing into Cunningham’s office

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Budget From Page 7 aggression do occur, and equally no doubt of how devastating they can be for the victims of that aggression,” he said in a direct reference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. All three senior leaders delivered familiar recommendations and perspectives – the need to modernize the forces; make the hardware and operations in space more “resilient,” modern and robust; continuing to refine “multi-domain” operations and communications; upgrading the nuclear deterrent; and ensuring that bases are protected, and personnel and equipment can be delivered to wherever they are needed without delay. All of those elements – and others – are essential parts of “Integrated Deterrence,” the overarching philosophy developed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for protecting the nation’s security and interests. The roles played by the Air and Space Forces in that effort are embodied in the Department’s official “posture

statement,” a document that explains how they fit into the nation’s larger national security strategy for the 2023 fiscal year. “The Air Force we are building is critical to integrated deterrence, campaigning, and building enduring advantages,” Brown told the committee, citing three major components in the updated National Defense Strategy. Brown, like Kendall and Raymond, was blunt about both the promise of what might be and the risk if that vision is not realized. “A world-class Air Force requires world-class airmen who are organized, trained and equipped to remain the world’s most respected Air Force,” he told the committee, which is the primary source of setting defense policy that later becomes law. “But, if we do not continue to transform, this may no longer be the case. . . . We must modernize to counter strategic competitors. (China) remains our pacing challenge and Russia remains an acute threat so we must balance between the demands of today and requirements for tomorrow,” Brown said.

Raymond offered a similar assessment for space and the Space Force, telling the committee: “We find ourselves at a hinge of history, where the rulesbased order established after World War II, is under an acute threat from Russia. In the meantime, we continue to face a pacing challenge in the Indo-Pacific from China.” Space, he said, is a new and indisputable “warfighting domain,” which is why the United States and its allies are focusing heavily on space and adapting to the new conditions. “We cannot allow potential adversaries to gain an

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Budget From Page 10 a resilient architecture and protect the joint force from spaceenabled attacks. This is critical to supporting all aspects of the National Defense Strategy.” But space today is different and more dangerous, no longer the “benign” environment that many of the satellites operated today were designed for. That is an untenable condition,

Raymond said, because “space power provides a series of foundational capabilities upon which our joint forces depend. The Space Force’s $24.5 billion budget request includes higher levels of spending on “weapon system sustainment, a more resilient Global Positioning System, and next-generation satellite communications,” Raymond said. The biggest chunk of the budget – $15.8 billion – is devoted to research, development, testing and evaluation. This will allow the U.S.

military presence in space to modernize and “begin the pivot to a more resilient and mission capable missile warning and missile tracking force design,” Raymond said. Lawmakers generally accepted the funding and BROWN priorities in space and directed most of their questions to Kendall and Brown about more traditional topics such as plans for modernizing the Air Force’s fleet and plans for divesting

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KENDALL RAYMOND older aircraft. They also wanted to know how the Air Force will drive down the cost of operating and maintaining F-35 fighters, details about the transition

to the new ‘Sentinel’ intercontinental ballistic missile weapon system, the continuing development of the new B-21 long-range bomber and more prosaic topics such as basing and cyber security, among other diverse topics. As in past years, lawmakers had multiple questions – mostly directed to Brown this time – about how decisions were made to retire aircraft and

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Tuesday

Prayer Meeting: 6:30-7:00 p.m. Bible Study: 7:00-8:00 p.m. Web Site: www.stpaulfairfield.org Email: stpaulbcfairfield@comcast.net Church Phone: 707-422-2003

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Sunday Morning Worship 10AM

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Dr. Claybon Lea, Jr. - Senior Pastor

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CHURCH of CHRIST Meets at Rockville Cemetery Stone Chapel

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4221 Suisun Valley Rd, Fairfield

1011 Ulatis Drive, Vacaville, CA 95687

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Budget From Page 12 if those decisions created vulnerability or operational gaps. Brown acknowledged transitions are difficult but said he was comfortable with the Air Force’s direction and the mix of aircraft the budget proposal supports. “When I talk about balancing risk over time, there’s a balance between the operational risk we will see today as we make that transition versus the risk we’ll have in the future if we don’t start to modernize,” Brown said

in response to a question suggesting the Air Force was retiring too many planes. “We do have to make some tough choices. I don’t just look at the numbers. I look at the overall capabilities and capacity; not just the airplanes but what goes with the airplanes. . . . It’s a complete package. There is some risk there but I’d rather take a little bit of risk now than a lot of risk later in a future conflict,” he said. In dollar terms, the proposed Air and Space Forces budget for the next fiscal year that was submitted to Congress in March provides $169.5 billion

for the Air Force and $24.5 billion for the Space Force. If approved as written, it would boost funding by $1.1 billion to modernize the nation’s aging, ground-based nuclear deterrent ($3.6 billion compared to $2.5 billion in the 2022 proposal). It adds $320 million in additional funding for continued development and nuclear certification of the B-21 long-range bomber ($3.25 billion from $2.87 billion). It increases the budget for hypersonic weapons by $138 million ($577 million from $438 million). The proposed budget calls on the Space Force to spend an

TRAVIS TAILWIND 13 additional $1 billion on “resilient missile warning/missile tracking to address hypersonic and maneuverable RVs (re-entry vehicles).” In a portion of the request known as “procurement funds,” the fiscal 2023 proposal provides funding to purchase 33 F35A Lightning II fighters, 15 KC46A Pegasus tankers, 24 F-15EX Eagle II fighters, among other hardware procurements. It provides funding to the Space Force for three National Security Space launches, three additional launches by the Space Development Agency and two launches that will put into orbit GPS III

satellites to enhance the resiliency of the positioning, navigation and timing constellation accessed by billions of users daily. More broadly, the request calls for spending $7.9 billion (an increase of $300 million) to boost flying hours to 1.1 million, a level officials said is the “maximum executable level.” It increases spending for “weapons system sustainment” to $16.6 billion from $15.4 billion and carries funding to increase pay for civilians and active-duty personnel by 4.6%. It also has $77 million for the Air Force to address climate change requirements.

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Training From Page 2 development has instilled in me a sense of diligence, attention to details, and preparation.” Bradley explained that the camp’s development process exposes bobsledders to Lake Placid conditions by starting runs at the midpoint of the track to maintain a lower speed and practicing manageability of the sled. He concluded that the bobsledders eventually work their way to starting at the top of the mountain. “I like the technical way the mechanics work in the sled,” Emily said. With just five days of training and 15 runs

TRAVIS/CLASSIFIEDS added to her credit, she became the youngest athlete to bobsled down the 20 challenging curves of the Lake Placid Combination Track. When she broke the 21-year-old record as the youngest bobsled pilot to glide down the track, set by American bobsledder John Napier, he was there at the end of the track to cheer her on as she broke his record. Emily was recognized with a gold medal for her achievement. Napier and Emily’s father have been friends since their preteen years and were professional competitors in the sport. This summer, Emily will commit her time to speed and strength training. Her goal is to build endurance to go

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Michael and Emily Bradley pictured at Lake Placid, New York, in March.

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Training From Page 14 faster at the top of the track to increase speed and distance at the bottom. She said she plans to begin a weight lifting program to help her strengthen particular muscle groups she needs to help her improve her initial blast forward. In addition to the training,

Emily revealed that she wears a chain necklace her father gave her that he wore when he was a bobsledder. It’s her personal good luck charm, she added. The Bradley family is looking forward to the exciting youth circuit and focusing on top racing opportunities coming up in North America and Europe. Emily is extremely focused on competing in the

TRAVIS TAILWIND 15 Youth Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2024, and making a run for the Olympic Winter Games scheduled to be in Milan Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy in 2026 when she turns 18. “I’m confident that Emily’s on track to check all the right boxes, remain resilient and bounce back no matter what curves she has to navigate,” Bradley said.

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Stress From Page 5 Rapelje said group members have already identified three challenges they are working through: ensuring process education and buy-in, replicating scenario-building across the command, and attaining oversight and program maintenance to ensure sustainability. “Ultimately, the stress inoculation program’s success centers on the growth of AFSCs, scenarios and units,” he said. “Working through the senior enlisted leaders, we are able to identify areas for improvement and work toward overcoming known challenges, bringing us closer to final sustainable and repeatable processes.

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