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• The Pentagon Would Court-Martial a Corporal for This Accounting October 15, 2026
  Somewhere in the United States military, a corporal is explaining a $12.37 travel voucher discrepancy to a supervisor who looks ready to convene a war crimes tribunal. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has spent eight consecutive years demonstrating that when the numbers get large enough, accountability becomes an inspirational leadership concept. Apparently, arithmetic stops working somewhere above […]
  Tammy Pondsmith
• Cub Scouts the Air Force Way October 15, 2026
  By an Anonymous USAF Brat Back in the 1970s, Cub Scouts were a part of virtually every young boy’s existence. It was almost a rite of passage. Some continued through Webelos and on into Boy Scouts. As any Cub Scout, current or former, will tell you, one of the seminal events held every year was […]
  Special Guest
• Stop Thanking Me for My Service October 15, 2026
  We are thanked for our service numerous times a day. Sometimes we don’t even know how anyone knew to thank us. Maybe it’s our demeanor, maybe it’s our tattoos, or maybe it is our service dogs that give us away as veterans. Whatever it is, everywhere we go, someone is thanking us for our service. […]
  JC Glick
• The Day You Stop Learning is the Day You Stop Leading October 14, 2026
  There is a dangerous point in the career of every successful leader when experience begins to masquerade as expertise. You have been doing the job for twenty years. Maybe thirty. You have led large and small organizations, managed real and imagined crises, built teams, fired people, promoted people, survived failures, and accumulated enough scars to […]
  Charles Faint
• Flock Cameras See More Than License Plates October 14, 2026
  Communities across the United States are debating the rapid expansion of Flock Safety cameras and similar automated license plate reader systems. To supporters, these cameras are practical tools that help police locate stolen vehicles, identify suspect vehicles, find missing or endangered people, and develop investigative leads more quickly. To critics, the same technology creates a […]
  Daniel Dodds