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  • 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

  • Not all heroes wear capes

    Brian Tillman, 21st CS trunked land mobile radio technician, and Clint Wilson, 21st CS trunked land mobile radio administrator, upgraded the TLMR at Peterson Air Force Base to better serve the entire base and the surrounding community especially when disasters strike.

  • Illuminating the holiday season: Chapel hosts Annual Tree Lighting

    PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Members of Team Pete families make snowflakes during the 21st Space Wing Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony at the Peterson chapel, Dec. 2, 2016 at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. The yearly event is hosted by the chapel offering family arts and crafts activities and food

  • Warhawks judge science fair projects at a local elementary school

    Have you ever wondered what would happen to a flower when watered with colored-dyed water instead of regular water? Or what happens to a fast food cheeseburger when it is left out for several weeks?Airmen from the 4th Space Control Squadron, also known as the Warhawks, recently discovered these

  • Staying safe on winter roads

    One big step toward staying safe on the highway during the holidays and bad weather is simple, said Air Force Academy law enforcement and safety experts: pay attention.   Lt. Col. Lance Spear, director of the Academy’s Safety Office, said distracted driving -- often caused by a driver using a

  • Proper nutrition can help manage diabetes

    Good nutrition is important for any healthy lifestyle, but for diabetics balancing nutrition, activity and medication is vital. Carbohydrates, for example, are nutrients found in bread, milk, starchy vegetables and fruit that turn to sugar in the blood. Other simple carbohydrates found in sweets and