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  • 10th SWS in constant support of 21st SW

    The 21st Space Wing’s 10th Space Warning Squadron monitors and tracks potential missile launches against North America with the GE AN/FPQ-16 Enhanced Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System radar at Cavalier Air Force Station, North Dakota.

  • Peterson AFB Education Center offers new career program

    In balancing a military, civilian and family life, sometimes it can be hard to find time to work on educational goals. At Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, the Education Center offers multiple programs to help Airmen achieve their ends.

  • Marriage: Air Force to Air Force

    According to the Air Force Personnel Center there are more than 27,000 active-duty Airmen, just under 10 percent of the active-duty Air Force, married to another active- duty Airman, and about 1,500 active-duty Airmen married to an active-duty member of another military service.

  • The museum has history

    More than 20,000 people visit the Edward J. Peterson Air and Space Museum on Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, every year."A majority of visitors are members of the general public with no military affiliation," said Jeffery Nash, Edward J. Peterson Air and Space Museum assistant director.

  • To bag or not to bag: The option is now yours

    For customers to have a cashier and bag their own groceries, the Defense Commissary Agency selected the commissary at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, along with 120 other commissaries worldwide to do a trial run designating two checkout lanes as Self Service Bagging lanes. The Peterson

  • Tracking the billion year road trip

    Cruising with the windows down, music up and the Sun shining on your face. Going on a road trip is an adventure that some people love or aspire to do. For one individual, their road trip could last a billion years, and the 18th Space Control Squadron is tracking it.

  • Peterson AFB library refurbished

    Col. Todd Moore (Left), 21st Space Wing commander and Rebecca Perkins (Right), 21st Force Support Squadron supervisory librarian perform a ribbon cutting ceremony at the library on Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, Feb. 9, 2018. The library was refurbished with new paint, texture, and furniture.

  • Continuous Process Improvement takes center stage as a wing focus

    Leaders from all units of the Air Force Reserve Command’s 302nd Airlift Wing met at the U. S. Air Force Academy Jan. 8 to discuss the way ahead for 2018 and the center stage focus was implementing a work method across the wing called Continuous Process Improvement.            Last year, leaders