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  • Get Plugged in With Peterson AFB's Family-focused Deployment Web Page

    'Okay, when I get home, I need to put out the chicken tenders to defrost. I need to pick up Christy from soccer practice by 5:30 p.m. Oh, Taylor needs help with his math homework. I was never good at math; I wish Justin was here, he's good at math. I wonder what he's doing right now; it's supposed

  • Peterson to implement barrier plan

    Peterson AFB will exercise its Antiterrorism Barrier Plan Jan. 22 and 23. Base personnel will experience temporary parking restrictions while the plan is exercised over the 48-hour period, and reduced parking areas will cause some customers some inconvenience. Every attempt will be made to reduce

  • Keeping Private Things Private: TriWest Protects You

    We all know that it's important to protect your personal financial information; things like your Social Security number, bank account number, credit card number. It is equally important to protect your personal and potentially sensitive health information. TriWest Healthcare Alliance wants you to

  • Military pride extends to the wear of PT uniform

    Two new changes to the wear of AF PT uniform at Peterson AFB were announced recently to instill pride in the Air Force image. On Peterson, all Airmen will now salute while in PT uniform during the playing of "To the Colors" for Reveille and during the playing of the national anthem for

  • Education and Training: Food for thought, part 2

    The following key facts may help Airmen make wise and beneficial educational decisions. · Education: The knowledge and development resulting from an education process · Education helps you develop skills that are important to the Air Force such as critical thinking. What you are learning in the

  • Education and Training: food for thought, part 1

    The following are resources available to Airmen as Air Force Space Command in the month of January and all year long. · Rosetta Stone: Fluency in a second language - 152 licenses at the Library - get on the waiting list now to obtain a license - career progression, self-education, familiarity with

  • 21st FSS snatches victory from NORTHCOM J2

    The 21st Force Support Squadron triumphed over U.S. Northern Command J2 in intramural basketball at Gym 1 on base Jan. 8. The 21st FSS team, comprised of men 30 years of age or older, defeated NORTHCOM J2 54 to 51. "It's a 'got to have' home type game - just to pass them in the standings. Both teams

  • Spouses want study on deployments

    Prolonged, continuous deploy­ments and their effects on mili­tary families need to be seriously addressed in the coming year, said the wife of the Chief of Naval Op­erations, the wife of the Army chief of staff, and other senior spouses who participated in a panel discussion Nov. 18. "It's also

  • Defenders: Long Arm of Law keeps Kandahar operations in check, Airmen safe

    Security forces Airmen are the first line of defense for an Air Force base. They are charged with maintaining the rule of law; this is especially important in a war-torn region like Kandahar, Afghanistan. The men and women from the 755th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron work tirelessly to

  • Deployed Airmen's families not alone

    Deploying is a fact of life for Airmen in today's expeditionary Air Force, but it doesn't mean their spouses and families have to go it alone. A deployed spouses' dinner here at the base chapel Feb. 2 reinforced that message for spouses and children from Colorado's Schriever and Peterson Air Force