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  • Exercise tests reservists’ mass casualty response

    Smoke billowed out of the doorway of the building in an austere location. The screams and shouts from the wounded filled the air. Airmen rushed to the scene with litters in tow, scouring the building for wounded. They strapped the injured to a litter one by one, then transported them to safety

  • 5 tips to make healthy habits last

    Good habits provide a foundation for positive improvements in your life. However, forming new habits can be challenging. They take time and practice to form.

  • Best in the West, Best of the Best

    There are about 95,000 certified flight instructors in the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and Zoan Harclerode, flight instructor at the Rocky Mountain Flight Training Center on Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, is the best of them all.

  • Continuing an Air Force career - hope after a breast cancer diagnosis

    The pink ribbon that symbolizes National Breast Cancer Awareness might be seen as a somber image, but it also represents hope and the many survivors. As awareness, support, and research funding have increased, more and more women are surviving breast cancer and returning to their careers.

  • Cheyenne Mountain sees better satellite picture

    UEWR primary missions include missile warning and missile defense, where radars spot missile launches, track them and send data to the Ballistic Missile Defense System. These primary missions enable ground-based interceptors to launch and eliminate incoming threats. The secondary mission is space

  • FTAC graduates new class

    Airman from class 18-1 stand at attention during training at the First Term Airman’s Center October 24, 2017, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. The purpose of FTAC is to prepare first term Airman to enter the operational Air Force as a productive member of the team. Training lasts five days and

  • CFC kicks-off at Peterson

    Master Sgt. Jason Gregory, 21st Civil Engineer Squadron noncommissioned officer in charge of requisitions and optimization, and installation project officer for the Combined Federal Campaign, assists Col. Todd Moore, 21st Space Wing commander, in making his commitment to CFC online, Oct. 30, 2017 at

  • SMDC’s Kestrel Eye deploys

    One of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command’s newest prototypes is Kestrel Eye, a small, low-cost, visible-imagery satellite designed to provide near real-time images to the tactical-level ground Warfighter. Kestrel Eye, developed by the command’s Technical

  • DPAA accounts for 183 missing service members in fiscal 2017

    In fiscal 2017, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for 183 formerly missing persons from past conflicts. Also, the agency individually identified the remains of 18 additional personnel, who were previously accounted for as part of group burials, reaching another milestone of 201 total