All Air National Guard Forces

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google.load(‘visualization’, ‘1’, {packages: [‘geomap’]}); function drawVisualization() { var data = new google.visualization.DataTable(); data.addRows(51); data.addColumn(‘string’, ‘Country’); data.addColumn(‘number’, ‘Guard Authorizations’); data.setValue(0,0,’US-AK’); data.setValue(0,1,723); data.setValue(1,0,’US-AL’); data.setValue(1,1,759); data.setValue(2,0,’US-AR’); data.setValue(2,1,658); data.setValue(3,0,’US-AZ’); data.setValue(3,1,762); data.setValue(4,0,’US-CA’); data.setValue(4,1,1627); data.setValue(5,0,’US-CO’); data.setValue(5,1,464); data.setValue(6,0,’US-CT’); data.setValue(6,1,442); data.setValue(7,0,’US-DC’); data.setValue(7,1,49); data.setValue(8,0,’US-DE’); data.setValue(8,1,374); data.setValue(9,0,’US-FL’); data.setValue(9,1,703); data.setValue(10,0,’US-GA’); data.setValue(10,1,937); data.setValue(11,0,’US-HI’); data.setValue(11,1,735); data.setValue(12,0,’US-IA’); data.setValue(12,1,670); data.setValue(13,0,’US-ID’); data.setValue(13,1,394); data.setValue(14,0,’US-IL’); data.setValue(14,1,1120); data.setValue(15,0,’US-IN’); data.setValue(15,1,635); data.setValue(16,0,’US-KS’); data.setValue(16,1,746); data.setValue(17,0,’US-KY’); data.setValue(17,1,435); data.setValue(18,0,’US-LA’); … Read more

Arc versus Active Duty

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test google.load(‘visualization’, ‘1’, {packages: [‘geomap’]}); function drawVisualization() { var data = new google.visualization.DataTable(); data.addRows(51); data.addColumn(‘string’, ‘State’); data.addColumn(‘number’, ‘Military’); data.setValue(0,0,’US-AK’); data.setValue(0,1,108); data.setValue(1,0,’US-AL’); data.setValue(1,1,172); data.setValue(2,0,’US-CA’); data.setValue(2,1,639); data.setValue(3,0,’US-CO’); data.setValue(3,1,384); data.setValue(4,0,’US-DE’); data.setValue(4,1,66); data.setValue(5,0,’US-FL’); data.setValue(5,1,322); data.setValue(6,0,’US-GA’); data.setValue(6,1,441); data.setValue(7,0,’US-HI’); data.setValue(7,1,434); data.setValue(8,0,’US-ID’); data.setValue(8,1,48); data.setValue(9,0,’US-IL’); data.setValue(9,1,248); data.setValue(10,0,’US-KS’); data.setValue(10,1,218); data.setValue(11,0,’US-LA’); data.setValue(11,1,243); data.setValue(12,0,’US-MA’); data.setValue(12,1,306); data.setValue(13,0,’US-MD’); data.setValue(13,1,59); data.setValue(14,0,’US-ME’); data.setValue(14,1,242); data.setValue(15,0,’US-MN’); data.setValue(15,1,118); data.setValue(16,0,’US-MO’); data.setValue(16,1,123); data.setValue(17,0,’US-NC’); data.setValue(17,1,206); data.setValue(18,0,’US-NY’); … Read more

My start as an IMA in the Air Force

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This article has become incredibly popular. It was written six years ago at the start of my reserve career. Since then, I’ve had an amazing fun, rewarding and high-impact career. First, I’ve had amazing bosses, Shawn Barnes and Tim Kelly, who are both amazing leaders but understood the difficulty of balancing my day job with … Read more

Congressional District GIS Exploration

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MathJax.Hub.Config({tex2jax: {inlineMath: [[‘$’,’$’], [‘(‘,’)’]]}}); I wanted to be able to do this with my ip address: I do development and consulting in two areas I really love: fitness and political engagement. For some work I’m doing on the latter, I needed to figure out the latitude and longitude of the geographic center for each of … Read more

reserve questions outstanding

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The mechanics are difficult enough to figure out along with the big picture understanding of how an IMA is different than an traditional reservist. Here are some of the confusions I had to come to terms with: * What is the difference between the reserve and the guard? Why do both exist? * Do you … Read more

Building Plots in Visio

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I like to automate Microsoft Visio to draw plots. They look so much more professional and I don’t have to fuss with Excel to figure out how to make plots look like I want. Again, this is me practicing my theory of being in control, not letting software control us. Please let me know if … Read more