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  • Team Pete Airmen nab Space Crew of the Year

    NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland - Tech. Sgt. William White, 4th Space Control Squadron, accepts the award for Air Force Space Crew of the Year, given by the Air Force Association during an awards ceremony in National Harbor, Md., Sept. 19, 2016. The award was accepted on behalf of deployed teammates.

  • More than meets the eye: Partnering with man’s best friend

    High-tech methods and equipment have inundated security and police work in recent decades, but teaming up with mans’ best friend continues to be useful and effective. The 21st SFS maintains the second largest Air Force military working dog kennel in the continental U.S., preparing dogs and handlers

  • Peterson AFB remembers

    PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - Members of the Vosler NCO Academy raise the American flag during a ceremony to commemorate POW/MIA Remembrance Week at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Sept. 13, 2016. The POW/MIA flag was flown for 24-hours, taken down and carried in a 24-hour run and then returned

  • Peterson has a ball at Air Force birthday bash

    PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – 21st Space Wing leadership kept with tradition by having the lowest ranking dinner attendees help cut the birthday cake during the Air Force Ball at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Sept. 16, 2016. All members of Team Pete were encouraged to come out and celebrate the

  • 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.

 

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