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  • Are you in the 5%: What you need to know about Enlisted Performance Reports

    In 2015, the Air Force executed the new enlisted evaluation and promotion systems with the goal of ensuring performance as the key element when promoting and evaluating Airmen. With the influx of awards and recognition Peterson Air Force Base Airmen are receiving, combined with the new enlisted

  • Exercise provides real world experience

    A group of Airmen from the 21st Medical Group are spending time in the Dominican Republic, March 3-18, 2017, putting their skills to work as part of the Air Force South-run joint exercise Operation New Horizons.

  • There’s a point to this collector’s passion

    Today, Staff Sgt. Michael Craddock, 21st Space Wing operational security coordinator, has a collection of knives and swords numbering more than 350 pieces, including traditional folding blades, exotic fixed-blade models and several unusual blades as well.

  • Tough year: Willpower strives to survive

    After driving to San Antonio, Texas in 2016 to visit family, Victor Villerreal, 21st Force Support Squadron, Airman & Family Readiness Center Air Force Aid Society officer, called home at 10 p.m. to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to wish his wife Nona Daugherty, 21 FSS, AFRC Personal & Family Life

  • CMSAF Wright visits with SMSgts

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright takes questions from senior master sergeants who have been selected for promotion to chief master sergeant at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., on Feb. 23, 2017. Wright shared leadership advice and discussed current issues as part of the Air Force

  • Senior Master Sergeant Promotion Release Party

    PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Col. Doug Schiess, 21st Space Wing commander, Chief Master Sgt. Brendan Criswell, Air Force Space Command command chief, and Chief Master Sgt. Mark Bronson, 21st SW command chief, stand alongside Team Pete’s newest senior master sergeant selects during a promotion

  • 6 months later: 18th SPCS all-stars continue to shine

    During a ceremony July 22, 2016 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the 21st Space Wing stood up the 18th Space Control Squadron. The 18th SPCS falls under the 21st Operations Group, and assumed the day-to-day Space Situational Awareness and routine satellite catalog maintenance missions from

  • Col Schiess discusses water investigation updates

    Col. Doug Schiess, 21st Space Wing commander, briefs U.S. House Representative Doug Lamborn’s district director, Dale Anderson, on the wing’s investigation of potential water contamination here Feb. 28, 2017.Schiess updated Anderson and U.S. Senator Cory Gardner’s Pike Peak Office Regional Director

  • Team Pete trio heading to XC World Championship

    Three elite runners from Peterson Air Force Base will participate in the world military cross country championships after top 10 finishes at the USA Track & Field National Cross Country Championships, Feb. 4, 2017 in Bend, Oregon.