News Search

  • IT CAN'T BE EASY ...

    Thank you to Senior Airman Caleb Zody for sharing his story ("I Killed My Best Friend's Sister," Spring 2013, page 8). He made a big mistake, but it appears he is doing his best to atone for it. It can't be easy for him to talk about, but he is doing a good thing by bringing more awareness to the

  • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

    Wow! Just read the article "I Killed My Best Friend's Sister" (Spring 2013, page 8) and am shocked. I can't believe the Airman killed one of his passengers while texting and driving and did not go to jail. He is lucky the victim's twin sister helped get him off the hook. Good on him for sharing his

  • FINGER AMPUTATIONS

    I found your article "Four-finger Discount? Preventable Mishaps 'Stealing' Digits at Record Clip in FY 2013" (Spring 2013 issue, cover story) very interesting. But it got me to thinking about what I would do if one of my family members or I accidently severed a finger. I found some information

  • TAKING CARE OF DEPLOYED AIRMEN

    A big thank you and kudos from our Airmen downrange. Your remarkable efforts in customer Service and keeping our deployed folks safe are deeply appreciated.

  • SIMPLY THE BEST

    I've been reading Torch since the mid-90s, and it continues to be the best in its genre and the best in the Department of Defense. I've shared many of your safety articles. Keep up the excellent work.

  • FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE

    I feel the need to share something that recently affected me rather profoundly. It involves both situational awareness and distraction while driving. On the evening of Dec. 21, Mark, a good friend of mine, was on his way home at about 9:30 p.m. on the north side of San Antonio. He had a flat so he

  • PHOTO 'FUELS' THEM

    I am an instructor with the 364th Training Squadron Fuels Advanced Courses. In our schoolhouse, we have several hallways with hundreds of photos of our fuels Airmen around the globe in action. In the 2012 Torch Calendar for October, there is a photo of three R-11s refueling a C-5 Galaxy. It looks

  • FIRE ANT TATTOOS

    I am the public information officer for the Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District. We are a government agency working to protect residents of Coachella Valley from vector-borne disease. Our efforts include physical, biological and chemical control as well as public outreach to

  • BRAVING AN ICE STORM

    I am so glad that Staff Sgt. Crystal Salierno survived her ordeal, and I was relieved to read her mother is in remission from leukemia. I totally understand why she braved the ice storm to try to spend the holidays with her ailing mom. But her mother would have been devastated if her daughter had

  • INSTINCT TO SURVIVE

    We loved your cover story in the latest Torch magazine, "A Broken Wing and a Prayer" (Winter 2012 issue). It features one of our Civil Air Patrol members, Mike Hainsey, who is a lieutenant colonel in CAP's Mississippi Wing. We are linking the story to VolunteerNow (www.capvolunteernow.com), CAP's