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  • New wing commander selected

    45th Space Wing Commander Brig. Gen. Susan Helms recently received an assignment to Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., where she will be director of Plans and Programs for United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). She will be directly responsible to the USSTRATCOM Commander for the development and

  • Project Emeritus; Got Volunteers?

    Almost everyone has seen a certain magazine advertisement that asks the question "Got milk?" The idea is to encourage more people to drink milk. The Patrick Air Force Base Project Emeritus volunteer office is asking some base organizations if they "Got Volunteers?" Though Project Emeritus won't use

  • Wing to benefit from SECDEF’s decision

    Almost immediately following the resignations of Michael Wynne and Gen. C. Michael Moseley, Air Force Secretary and Chief of Staff respectively, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced proposed cuts in Air Force personnel would be curtailed.Stating his desire to ease the burden reduced staffing

  • Air Force launches NASA gamma ray study

    The Air Force successfully launched a United Launch Alliance Delta II booster carrying NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, satellite into space at 12:05 p.m. June 11 from the Space Launch Complex here.The launch will deliver the GLAST observatory into a circular orbit around the

  • Air Force brings back Missile Operations badges, Missile Wings

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley announced the return of the missile badge with operations designator for intercontinental ballistic missile crews June 6. He also announced that the three ICBM wings of Air Force Space Command's 20th Air Force will return to the convention of being

  • Patrick commissary No. 1 in DeCA worldwide

    A little more than two months ago, the Patrick Air Force Base Commissary was named the best store in the Defense Commissary Agency's Eastern Region in the superstore division, beating out 98 other stores.On Tuesday they found out they were No. 1 in DeCA -- worldwide.The announcement came Tuesday