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  • 'FRAME' OF REFERENCE

    After receiving your magazine from a retired chief master sergeant and reading your cover story ("A Broken Wing and a Prayer," Winter 2012 issue), our aircrew flight equipment team at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., is going to mat and frame the story and T-38 artwork in our shop (formally life

  • SLEEPING WITH CHUPACABRAS?

    Sleeping with pets can kill you (Winter 2012 Torch, page 7)? Well, maybe if your pet is a rattlesnake ... or a chupacabra. Otherwise? Nonsense! I've been sleeping with pet dogs since I was 6 years old. I'm now 73 and perfectly healthy. I've never gotten so much as a single flea or tick. The problem

  • 2013 TORCH CALENDAR

    Well, we received the 2013 Torch Calendars. ... Hmm... The puzzle design is unsuccessful. For the first time, these calendars are not going fast, or anywhere actually. More likely, there's cussing as they are tossed back. The format is disappointing at best. I can just picture a meeting where

  • 'GUN AND RUN' NO FUN

    "Car Surfing Makes Airman Howl" ("Tales of the Strange," Summer 2012 issue, page 6) is a perfect example of how momentary lapses in judgment can come back to bite you. Who hasn't played the "gun and run" game at some point in their lives? But these two Airmen took it to a whole new level and paid

  • YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM ZOMBIES

    Thanks for the article on "Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse" (Fall 2012 Torch, page 14). I loved it! I keep telling my friends and family that by watching "The Walking Dead" and other Zombie shows you can actually learn some good information and techniques for surviving in different situations that

  • NOT LOST IN TRANSLATION

    I'm the director of the Academic Division, Royal Thai Air Force Safety Center. One of my jobs is developing and issuing a safety magazine. I have translated to Thai many of the articles you published in Torch and used them in our magazine. The articles are very useful for our personnel. Thank you.

  • STARVING FOR HARD COPIES

    Torch made distribution this afternoon here in New Kabul City, and we are excited! Our Air Force guys and gals (we have about 80 ranging from colonel to staff sergeant) have been starving for a hard copy anything Air Force. We appreciate everything you are doing for us. ... Information from back

  • AN INSPIRATION!

    Kari Miller was here on Randolph (Air Force Base, Texas), and I didn't get a chance to meet her ... (sad face). Everyone on this news feed should see this young woman. A drunk driver took her legs; see what she is doing now!

  • WOUNDED WARRIOR?

    The article "Comeback Kid" (Summer 2012 Torch, page 4) refers to 1st Lt. Ryan McGuire as a "wounded warrior." Yet, he was injured in a boating accident, not in contact with an armed enemy. In accordance with Air Force Instruction 34-1101, 3.3.2., "The definition of a wounded warrior is any Airman

  • FAT CHANCE

    Liposuction to pass the Air Force fitness test (Torch, page 7)? Pardon the pun, but fat chance! It would never work long term because you're not changing your lifestyle, just taking a dangerous shortcut. So you would not only put your life and career in jeopardy, but spend thousands of dollars on