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  • A growing Air Force throughout the generations

    The 5/6 Club at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, developed a class to do just that and started the conversation between Generation X Airmen and millennial, or Generation Y, Airmen. The class, called the Millennial Leadership Course, was held Dec. 9 at the Professional Development Center on

  • Get ahead of the winter freeze

    The leading months for home fires in the U.S. are December, January and February. Hopefully everyone is ready for the heating season now that colder temperatures have finally arrived. If not, the National Fire Protection Association and the U.S. Fire Administration offer the following 10 tips to

  • Storytellers: Against the Odds

    A few days before Christmas of 2015, Senior Airman Sabra Waggoner, Vosler NCO Academy administrator, walked into her first sergeant’s office and told him she had decided to kill herself. She had been thinking about it and set a date and time. This began a new fight for herself, and she was used to

  • Civilian tuition assistance increases to $1M, expands eligibility

    The Air Force has received an additional $400,000, for a total of $1 million, for its 2017 civilian tuition assistance program, and all permanent, full-time appropriated fund employees, including those in wage-grade positions, are now eligible to participate.   Employees are required to have a

  • Salute to Service football game recognizes veterans

    DENVER - U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Reynold Hoover, U.S. Northern Command deputy commander, presents to the head referee the coin used in the opening coin toss for the Salute to Service football game between the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs, Nov. 27, 2016, at Sports Authority Field at Mile High

  • Unseen heroes protect Citizen Airman in cyberspace

    The 960th Cyberspace Operations Group is the only cyberspace group in the Air Force Reserve Command and the 960th Network Operations Squadron, which falls under the 960th CYOG, is located here. Cyberspace is the war-fighting domain of command and control, offensive and defensive operations, and

  • Crime prevention starts with you

    Crime prevention requires an active participation from community members and, more importantly, it begins with you. Regardless of age or job position, we all have the responsibility to prevent crime across Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.

  • Wingmanship: Easing the burden

    Volunteers from units around Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, helped a fellow Airman install new flooring in his Colorado Springs home Nov. 5, to ease the burden on his family and meet the medical requirements of a sick family member.

  • New squadron provides space awareness

    The 18th Space Control Squadron was established July 22, 2016 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. to conduct routine Space Surveillance Network sensor tasking and space catalog maintenance, ensuring a foundational space awareness picture is delivered to the Joint Space Operations Center and Joint