PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Airmen and Air Force Reserve Command C-130 Hercules from Colorado’s 302nd Airlift Wing left here for a four-month deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The Airmen are expected to provide airlift and aerial delivery support to operations in Southwest Asia to include Afghanistan. The Air Force Reserve and [...]
By Michael Golembesky 21st Space Wing Public Affairs staff writer PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Summer is near with warm weather and sunny Colorado days ahead. For many parents here this means increasingly hectic schedules, family road trips and children’s activities. It’s also the time to remember about the dangers associated with leaving children [...]
By Michael Golembesky 21st Space Wing Public Affairs staff writer PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — You have just reached the three-mile marker and your lungs feel like they are on fire. Your skin is dry but your shirt is soaked with sweat. There are lots of advantages to running at altitude, and here at [...]
By Michael Golembesky 21st Space Wing Public Affairs staff writer PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — A lone kennel sat empty at the center of the stage flanked by military working dog handlers and their companions. Service members and civilians stood at attention while the 21st Security Forces Squadron honored the passing of MWD Aio. [...]
By Michael Golembesky 21st Space Wing Public Affairs staff writer PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — It has been a long journey from the swimming pool at Colorado’s Greeley Central High School to proudly representing the Air Force in the lanes at this year’s Warrior Games at the U.S. Air Force Academy. But for Senior [...]
By Michael Golembesky 21st Space Wing Public Affairs staff writer PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Combat can take its toll on the body both physically and mentally but the Warrior spirit is not limited by such things. For many wounded warriors, the tolls of combat could have diminished their abilities and reaction times, but [...]
By Staff Sgt. J. Aaron Breeden 21st Space Wing Public Affairs PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — In the early 1940s, Peterson Air Force Base, or as it was known back then, Colorado Springs Army Air Base, was little more than a dusty runway with a few small white buildings that provided a place to [...]
By Michael Golembesky 21st Space Wing Public Affairs staff writer PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — “Exercise, exercise, exercise,” signaled the beginning of the Condor Crest emergency readiness exercise May 2. Within minutes the main entrance to the 21st Medical Group was crowded with Airmen simulating the symptoms of a chemical attack that occurred in [...]
Commentary by Senior Master Sgt. Corey Miller 21st Security Forces Squadron PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation designating May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date falls as Police Week. Currently, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers from around [...]
By Michael Pierson Air Force Space Command Public Affairs COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The kind of dramatic innovation that brought the world the Global Positioning System is desperately needed today in military space and cyberspace, according to Air Force Space Command’s Vice Commander. “Innovation is really what defines us as a Service,” said Lt. Gen. [...]
