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  • Museum: More volunteers needed to meet public demand

    Meeting visitor demand for tours of the Peterson Air & Space Museum requires a ready team of volunteers. Museum staff is looking to bolster its group of tour guides, or docents, by recruiting more volunteers to help share Air Force and Peterson Air Force Base history.

  • TOP 10 MOMENTS OF 2016

    Airmen from the 4th Space Control Squadron disembark a C-5 Galaxy to greet their families at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Aug. 13, 2016. The Airmen were deployed overseas and rushed to greet waiting family members. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Rose Gudex)

  • Road to resiliency tracks through stories of life

    The driver and passenger climbed out of the wreckage and, joined by a group of witnesses, turned over the hulking remains of a car only to find the driver’s three-year-old son crushed underneath. The driver and his family would never be the same.

  • Col. Doucet visits Cheyenne Mountain

    CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN AIR FORCE STATION, Colo. – Col. John Doucet, 21st Space Wing individual mobilization augmentee to the commander, tours Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colo., Jan. 6, 2017. Doucet visited CMAFS to learn more about the wing and its mission as part of his immersion with wing

  • Heart on top of the world

    THULE, Greenland -- The northern-most children in the world have a unique bond with the United States Air Force. Every year Operation Julemand, or Operation "Christmas Man," send gifts to the Greenlandic villages of Qaanaaq, Qeqertat, Savisivik and Siorapaluk for the children who live at the top of

  • From black knight to space knight

    In early 2002, 1st Lt. Marvin Mays was working as the black knight at a Medieval Times. While he loved it, his wife was pregnant and he needed something more stable than swinging swords and riding horses. He chose the Air Force because, as he said, his wife took one look at base housing in a

  • Peterson Youth Center holds Winter Resiliency Camp

    Being a child of military parents carries certain challenges, challenges that without consideration or acknowledgment can take a toll on a growing child during pivotal years. Recognizing and responding to this issue, the 21st Force Support Squadron took action and began a Winter Resiliency Camp for

  • Year in Review: Reserve Airlift Wing delivers in 2016

    For the Air Force Reserve Command’s 302nd Airlift Wing, 2016 began with the mobilization and deployment of approximately 150 Air Force Reservists and four C-130s in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. Over the course of the deployment hundreds of missions were flown to include airlifting

  • Pregnancy saves Airman’s life

    Staff Sgt. Jacquelyn Combs, 21st Force Support Squadron NCO in charge of customer support at the Military Personnel Section here, had more than her share of adversity to battle within her almost decade in the Air Force, but she comes back stronger every time she gets knocked down.

  • Climbing the walls

    PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Master Sgt. Jared Rinderer, U.S. Air Force Academy military trainer, belays for his wife, Faith Rinderer, while she climbs the rock wall in the fitness center at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Dec. 14, 2016. The rock wall is located in the fitness center behind the

 

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