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  • Local launch expertise; world-wide attention

    Team, to use a baseball analogy, we are batting cleanup on a major league team. And we just hit one out of the park. Again.What I'm referring to is the performance I watched -- our 45th Space Wing vice commander, Col.  Shawn Fairhurst, who served as the Launch Decision Authority -- for the 

  • Know your part; Do your part

    As many of you are aware, this month marks the 14th observance of Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month and the 2015 DOD SAAPM theme could not be any clearer:  "Eliminate Sexual Assault, Know Your Part, Do Your Part."Last week, many of us were in the base theater for a 90-minute briefing  and

  • SharkU: New site enhances professional development

    The Professional Development Center recently introduced a new tool to assist Team Patrick-Cape with professional development for active duty and DOD civilians.Shark University, or SharkU, is a SharePoint site that offers easy navigation and a broad array of resources that support professional

  • Anonymous gift hammers home the message

    Sometimes it just takes something so unexpected -- and so unbelievably appreciated -- for us to remember how lucky we are to be stationed here and be serving in the Armed Forces at this time in our nation's history.Let me tell you a little story that will help explain what I'm talking about.Last

  • SAPR: Respect the red line

    April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. Attending training is mandatory for active duty, reservist, and civilians, to include NAF employees. Contractors may attend with permission of their company.Presentations will be in the base theater on alternate Tuesdays: 8:30-10 a.m. and

  • Stay CONNECTED -- but be aware what you're sharing!

    Let me begin by congratulating Team Patrick-Cape, United Launch Alliance and all of our mission partners for yet another "100 percent Mission Success" launch of a Delta IV rocket carrying the Air Force's IIF-09 navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System from Cape Canaveral Air Force

  • The beauty of a diverse workforce – and the need for one

    Earlier this month,  Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James helped kick off Women's History Month at the Center for a New American Security "Women and Leadership in National Security" conference in Washington, D.C.It was there, that she spoke of the importance of a diverse workforce."There's

  • Even when you're right, something wrong can still happen to you

    Riding in a vehicle can be an unsafe activity, even if you are following all of the rules. The year was 2003 when Ms. Roberta Clark was driving her vehicle exiting the Main Gate at Patrick Air Force Base. While attempting to turn left onto A1A traveling northbound, another vehicle traveling

  • Air Force Diversity, Inclusion

    Airmen of the United States Air Force:There is no other country in the world so widely diverse, yet so deeply committed to being unified, as the United States of America. The challenges we face today are far too serious, and the implications of failure far too great, for our Air Force to do less

  • 'Eliminate Inspection Prep; Institute Readiness'

    As many of you are well aware, every 18 - 24 months or so, Air Force Space Command schedules on-site visits, followed by a Unit Effectiveness Inspection (UEI) Capstone Inspection.This is an opportunity for AFSPC to visit our Wing and provide an independent, transparent assessment of readiness,

 

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