Youth Center gets grant for pilot project

A $10, 000 check was presented Sept. 3 to the R.P. Lee Youth Center for staff training and equipment to utilize a new online gaming tool targeting military youth deal with unique issues they face daily.Peterson is one of only five military bases in the U.S. selected to participate in the pilot

Building better Airmen: Peterson takes on Team Cohesion Challenge

Five grueling hours of extreme tasks, sore muscles, pouring sweat and mud weren't enough to keep Peterson Airmen from completing the GoRuck Light, Team Cohesion Challenge here, Aug. 29.Participants spent two hours doing high-intensity calisthenics before hiking around base for the next almost three

1st Space Battalion Soldiers hike Pikes Peak

More than 70 Soldiers from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command's 1st Space Battalion came together before sunrise Aug. 27 for their annual Pikes Peak Ascent hike.Pikes Peak is one of Colorado's fourteeners, or mountains that rise more than 14,000 feet above

Atop a volcano

Thousands of feet above the expanse of the Pacific Ocean and a couple of thousand more beyond the cloud layer, high atop a dormant volcano sits the Maui Space Surveillance System, home of Detachment 3 of the 21st Operations Group, a geographically separated unit belonging to the 21st Space Wing.The

Thule hospital vital safeguard at Top of the World

When you're living 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle and the closet big city is hours away by air, the availability of health care is a big deal.Enter the Thule AB hospital. The 821st Air Base Group operates the Thule hospital, a small but vital facility at the Department of Defense's

Thule AB participates in Worldwide Troop Talk

NORAD/USNORTHCOM 4-peat as base intramural softball champions

For the fourth year in a row, the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command team took first place in the Peterson Intramural Silver Softball League championship.The team's coach, Richard Morales, NORAD/USNORTHCOM portfolio manager, joined the team in 2009 and they haven't

Airman finds many wingmen in time of need

A last minute PCS can be a frantic event. Packing up a household and all of the things that go a long with that; travel arrangements, locating to a new workplace and city are part of it. Finding out that your personal property is not going to be joining you any time soon makes it tougher. That is

Lodging manager retires at Top of the World

If you've been on temporary duty or assigned to Thule Air Base recently, chances are you've met this man.Ernie Stenson is the manager of the North Star Inn. He's been welcoming guests there for the past eight years, managing the 104-room complex, and he is retiring Sept. 30.As the lodging manager,

Space Soldier assists in saving lives of stabbing victims

Three Soldiers came to the rescue of two women who were stabbed early on the morning of Aug. 23 after a bachelorette party in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.The Soldiers, who are currently in recruiting school at Fort Knox, Kentucky, were out celebrating their last week of class when they heard the