Exercise scenarios keep wing alert

Making each Condor Crest exercise unique provides a challenge for the exercise evaluation team. Active shooters, bomb threats and evacuations are commonplace during the quarterly exercises, but regularly running the same scenario can create a sense of complacency among players. To mix up these

Volunteer spotlight: Jeanne Stanley

Retirement doesn't have to mean watching the days go by with nothing to do. Many people choose to stay active in their communities through volunteering. Jeanne Stanley epitomizes the retired volunteer by actively volunteering throughout the Colorado Springs community.Stanley volunteers because

AFSPC supports NATO ballistic missile defense declaration at NATO summit

Gen. Mark Welsh, U.S. Air Forces Europe commander and nominee to serve as the 20th Air Force Chief of Staff, praised Air Force Space Command and the Air Force Material Command's Electronic Systems Command Shared Early Warning System Program Office for playing a key role in support of President

Take a bite out of a book

The Peterson Air Force Base Library is dishing up a big serving of books this summer. Sign-ups for the second annual summer reading program, "Reading is so Delicious," started June 4. Last year, 652 participants logged more than 7,000 hours of reading. The library would like to match that this year.

21st Space Wing Airmen strategize through another Condor Crest exercise

Bioenvironmental Engineering reports water quality

Colorado Springs Utilities supplies drinking water to Peterson AFB. Base personnel can get the facts about the water they drink from the recently released CSU - 2012 Water Quality Report. This report (reporting period Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2011) informs the public about the water quality and services CSU

Physical therapy clinic ‘needles’ patients for relief

In March, Maj. (Dr.) Ryan Girrbach, 21st Medical Group Physical Therapy clinic, traveled to Denver to become certified in therapeutic dry needling. TDN is an exciting new procedure intended to reduce pain by treating "trigger points" in chronically tight muscles. The certification was attained

Ride smart

Givin’ the ‘dog’ a bath

True or False: A test about absentee ballots

Armed Forces Voters Week is June 28 through July 7. That's our week to remind everyone to register to vote and request absentee ballots. As the national conventions draw near and the general election for president is set for November, it's a good time to address some misguided myths about absentee