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  • Fueling the mission

    Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., is a base with a space situational awareness and early warning mission, so people sometimes wonder if there is an active flightline. Even with a primarily space-based mission, the operations tempo on Peterson’s flightline is high and the second busiest in the Air

  • Meston 2, Cancer 0

    In the summer of 2014 Staff Sgt. Ryan Meston, space system operator with the 4th Space Control Squadron at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, went through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for testicular cancer. He was in remission and things were looking good.During a follow up visit in early

  • Preparathon! Aims at eliminating dangerous surprises

    The 21st Civil Engineer Squadron Office of Emergency Management is preparing various events and messages to members of Team Pete to highlight the need to be ready in the event of catastrophic occasions. The Preparathon events are scheduled to take place 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., September 23 at the

  • Team Pete dives into service with Olympic athlete

    PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - Troy Dumais, four-time U.S. Olympic diver, visits the base fire station with a member from the American300 group as part of the tour launching their new program “Dive into Service” at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Sept. 12, 2016. Dive into Service is a mentor and

  • #BeThere, before the call

    When the phone rings in the middle of the night, it’s like an alarm going off in your brain. No one calls at one in the morning to say they were “just thinking of you.”   I received one of those calls 13 years ago and woke to my mom telling me my dad had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The

  • Beyond Advanced Training: The Bar Has Been Raised

    “Current, Realistic, Relevant” is my favorite mantra for education and training.  On May 2, 2015 the commander of Air Force Space Command, Gen. John E. Hyten, raised the bar even higher with a call to transform how we train our forces in order to continue to be effective in the space domain.

  • Wisdom of the ages

    Members of Team Pete were afforded the opportunity Sept. 9 to speak with a decorated group of former space leaders.

  • CMAFS reflects on events of 9/11

    CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN AIR FORCE STATION, Colo. - Memorial wreaths are presented at the 9/11 memorial during a commemoration held at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colo., Sept. 9, 2016. Service members and community partners remembered the lives lost during the terrorist attacks from 15 years ago.

  • Peterson Airman saves life of unconscious train passenger

    Joe Partoll, 21st Aerospace Medicine Squadron bioenvironmental engineer, helped save a life by using training he received at Peterson Air Force Base and performed CPR on a young man lying unconscious on the floor of the train Aug. 21.

  • Thule AB remembers 9/11 from Top of the World

    THULE AIR BASE, Greenland – Airman 1st Class Tyler Prokuski and Airman Ivan Martinez, 821st Air Base Group, ring the “four fives” as part of the 9/11 remembrance events at Thule Air Base, Greenland, Sept. 11, 2016. Even at the Top of the World, Airmen, military and mission partners alike, paused to

 

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