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  • Division ensuring vital systems sustained

    Battle Management's Strategic Warning and Surveillance Division here is working to ensure the abilities of the system that warn the president and national command authorities of attacks will be sustainable for the foreseeable future.Officials from the division awarded a $28 million sustainment task

  • Return to a whole different mountain

    The last time Bill Bunker was at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station crews were blasting a new generator room from the massive slabs of Pikes Peak granite that form the mountain."It's night and day, it's altogether different. It's just like a different picture of everything," Bunker said.Bunker

  • Air Force Director of Weather visits Thule

    Ralph O. Stoffler, Headquarters Air Force's director of weather and Chief Master Sergeant Ronald J. Richards, Jr., enlisted career field manager for weather, visited the three-person weather team of the 821st Support Squadron March 17 to see first-hand the transition of weather support from

  • 21st SW named best overall AFSPC wing

    The 21st Space Wing was named Air Force Space Command's best overall operational wing and received the 2015 General Thomas S. Moorman, Jr. Award at a ceremony here March 23, 2016."This award is truly a testament to the outstanding and hard work each and every Knight performs every day," said Col.

  • Running for the fallen

    Airmen and Soldiers from Fort Carson and Peterson Air Force Base joined together March 23 - 24 to run for 24 hours in honor of fallen Tactical Air Control Party Airmen.Due to inclement weather, the 13th Air Support Operations Squadron hosted Fifth Annual Challenge Run started at the Peterson Air

  • Chaplain discusses the real strength of a leader

    "Leadership is not about position, it's about influence," said Chaplain (Col.) Jay Johns III, NORAD/NORTHCOM command chaplain. Johns was the featured speaker at the National Prayer luncheon March 18, hosted by the 21st Space Wing Chapel.His topic, "The Real Strength of Strong Leaders," was based on

  • Airman plans to follow passion after Air Force career

    Growing up at his grandparent's home in Columbia, South Carolina Master Sgt. Paul Mackey, 21st Force Support Squadron career assistance advisor, figured he would head into the Army after high school. He was part of the Junior ROTC and he planned on attending Georgia Military College. Going into the

  • Peterson begins AFAF campaign

    The 21st Space Wing hosted a kickoff breakfast for the Air Force Assistance Fund at the Peterson Air Force Base Club on March 17.The event was to promote the AFAF, which helps the Air Force Aid Society, Air Force Village, Air Force Enlisted Village and The General and Mrs. Curtis E. LeMay

  • SMDC realigns to better support missions

    Leadership recently announced changes to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command's senior executive service structure to better align with the command's increasing space and missile defense missions and functions.The changes, announced March 7, include