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  • New chapel marquee completes year of renovation projects

    Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Randall Kitchens, 21st Space Wing chaplain, and the staff at the Peterson Chapel have been waiting for a sign.It arrived this summer and it's 8 feet tall and 11 feet wide - an electronic marquee.The new marquee completes one year of $240,000 in renovation projects that brought

  • AFSPC team takes close look at Peterson facilities

    A team of building and landscape experts from Air Force Space Command spent a few days in June looking at the exteriors and the interiors of Peterson Air Force Base facilities.It was part of the Facilities Excellence Program competition where installations are graded on their guidelines and

  • Man's best friend not immune to stigmas of war; overcomes PTSD

    When four-year-old Gina, a 21st Security Forces Squadron military working dog, returned from her five-month tour in the Middle East, she wasn't the same.She was antisocial. Every sound, even the radio, bothered her. She was jumpy. And, she showed no interest in her work, which was to detect drugs

  • Spouse jobs program to relaunch in October

    The Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts program will resume Oct. 25, but with some significant changes to the popular spouse employment program, a defense official announced today.Changes include a reduction in the amount of financial aid, a change in the population eligible to receive that

  • NORAD, USNORTHCOM hosts U.S.-Japanese joint staff talks

    The North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command headquarters was the site of a U.S.-Japanese Joint Staff Conference July 11 to 16, designed to bring together members of both nations' joint staffs to discuss issues of mutual importance and further strengthen the historic

  • Front Range bases to honor retirees

    Sir Isaac Newton told a fellow scientist in a letter that if he could see farther, it's because he was "standing on the shoulders of giants."Organizers of the Retiree Appreciation Day, scheduled for July 24 in Arnold Hall, know what Newton had in mind. Like him, they say, they also stand on the