Bob McCarty Writes

As an Air Force officer for almost seven years, I became familiar with a document used to both assess how some event, activity or operation turned out and offer recommendations about what could be done to improve the same next time it took place.  We called it an “After-Action Report.”
Three days after Army Maj. Malik [...]

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While serving as an Air Force officer in Japan 20 years ago, I had the privilege of seeing Lee Greenwood perform his hit song, “God Bless the USA,” at Kadena Air Base on the island of Okinawa.  Though I will always appreciate the original lyrics to the song, I recently concluded that they needed an [...]

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The teaser atop an article in the UK’s Telegraph this morning offers a glimpse at what readers should expect:
The relationship between President Barack Obama and the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan has been put under severe strain by Gen Stanley McChrystal’s comments on strategy for the war.
Why is President Obama upset with General McChrystal?  [...]

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If Barack Obama can’t be trusted to safeguard information about his own Secret Service agents, can he be trusted with vital national security secrets?
I ask the question above after observing the president-elect engaging in post-news conference “happy talk” (i.e., non-political banter) with members of the Washington press corps this morning.
After bringing up the subject of [...]

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When I served as an Air Force public affairs officer years ago, I had the privilege of working with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds on several crowd-pleasing occasions.  Therefore, when I saw the team — formally known as the “U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron” — had released the schedule for its 56th season, I [...]

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