21st SW and Team Pete celebrate their best of the best Published Feb. 10, 2009 By Col. Jay Raymond 21st Space Wing commander PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- The 21 SW wrapped up our Condor Crest exercise today, and you all once again proved your mettle with excellent responses to all of the scenarios and exercises. Our wing evaluators and leadership have been working together to find those items they want to fine tune and perfect. This exercise is a good dress rehearsal for the upcoming Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI) and Unit Compliance Inspection (UCI). Good job to everyone for all the hard work during Condor Crest, I appreciate all that you do. Keep it up! Speaking of the ORI and UCI, AFPSC just announced that our inspection dates are from 20 March 20 to 20 April. During this time, the AFSPC Inspector General team will inspect the Wing and its GSUs, taking a hard look at our operations, checklists and processes. This is our time to shine and showcase our hard work and attention to detail. Remember the first word in our Mission Statement...FLAWLESSLY. Last week the 21 SW gathered at the club for its Annual Awards dinner and ceremony, where our wing's best for 2008 were announced. Whether a nominee or a winner, these Airmen proved they are the cream of the crop. For the eleven wing categories, the winners were: - Airman of the Year: Senior Airman Bartholomew Dietrick, 21st Aerospace Medicine Squadron - NCO of the Year: Tech. Sgt. Michael Scott, 6th Space Warning Squadron - Senior NCO of the Year: Senior Master Sgt. Joel Brown, 21st Operations Group - Company Grade Officer of the Year: Capt. Stephen Hobbs, 20th Space Control Squadron - Civilian Category I of the Year: Mr. Justin Ochsendorf, 721st Civil Engineer Squadron - Civilian Category II of the Year: Mr. Mike Puleo, 21st Aerospace Medicine Squadron - Civilian Category I Supervisory of the Year: Mr. Donald Jordan, 21st Force Support Squadron - Civilian Category II Supervisory of the Year: Mr. James Freier, 721st Communication Squadron - First Sergeant of the Year: Master Sgt. John Facemire, 21st Civil Engineer Squadron - Airman Honor Guard of the Year: Senior Airman Jacob Close, 21st Operations Support Squadron - NCO Honor Guard of the Year: Tech. Sgt. Eric Seilaff, 21st Space Wing Safety Office We are all very proud of our winners. These individuals now advance to compete at 14th Air Force. We wish them the best of luck. We also recently held the fourth quarter Team Pete Award Ceremony. This was a very tight completion in all of the categories. The winners all deserve hearty congratulations for their hard work and dedication to the mission. The following were the Team Pete 4th Quarter Award Winners: - Junior Enlisted: Senior Airman Justin Novak, 3 WS/Det. 1 - NCO: Tech. Sgt. Jason Linta, 21st Space Wing - Senior NCO: Senior Master Sgt. Michelle Gardner, Air Force Space Command - Company Grade Officer: Capt. Ingemar Westphall, AFSPC - Category I Civilian: Mr. Thomas Davis, JPPSO - Category II Civilian: Mr. Brian McQuary, 21st Space Wing - Category I Supervisory Civilian: Mr. Donald Jordan, 21st Space Wing - Category II Supervisory Civilian: Mr. Ronnie Schilling III, 21st Space Wing Congratulations to all of our Team Pete award winners. We also had several members of the 21 SW selected as the 14th Air Force nominees for the following awards: Gen. John G. Jumper Warfighting Integration Award Officer: Capt. Susan Nichols, 76th Space Control Squadron AF C&I Outstanding Civilian Specialist: Mr. Russell Puls, 721st Communications Squadron AF Outstanding Information Assurance Program Manager: Tech. Sgt. Derrick Wallace, 21st Communications Squadron These are very prestigious awards. We are extremely proud of each and every one of them. And finally, congratulations again to Mr. Michael Puleo, 21st Medical Group, who was also nominated to represent AFSPC as the Civilian Program Manager of the Year for the 2009 Air Force Association Outstanding Air Force Civilian of the Year Award. We have had a tremendous showing of winners, chronicling not only our outstanding Warrior Airmen, but highlighting what great things the Wing accomplishes. With this type of superior performance, I'm sure we will all pull together and show what the Wing is capable of during the upcoming inspections. Have a great week, and keep up the great things you do every day to make Peterson Air Force Base the best base in the Air Force.