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  • 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

  • Standing vigilant from the top of the world

    Following the road for about a dozen miles across sparse, barren tundra that resembles a moonscape more than any earthly land, a form comes into view in stark contrast to the profile of the hillside. Drawing nearer, an 11-story tall, two-sided, solid-state, phased-array radar system and its

  • Protect Your Grill

    Have you ever had a tooth knocked out? Odds are it was not a pretty sight - in fact it was probably pretty ugly for those who witnessed it. The copious amounts of blood, severe pain and soaring dental bills are the perfect way to ruin a sporting event and the whole day. This is why mouth guards are

  • Colorado Springs pays tribute to lives lost on 9/11

    PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Retired Gen. C. Robert Kehler, former United States Strategic Command commander and former 21st Space Wing commander, recounts memories of the 9/11 attacks to service members and civilians who gathered to attend the 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony at Peterson Air Force