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  • Tornado Season – Be prepared

    The winter tornado season in central Florida usually peaks February to April. However, our winter tornadoes can strike as early as December.Are you prepared?Tornado safety is an easy 2-step process.Step-1 -- Have A Plan:  Identify the safest room in your building and ensure everyone knows it. This

  • What's stopping you from getting help?

    The 45th Medical Group has people and programs to get you the care you need - you are not alone!You can't readily see it, it can't be fixed with a splint or cast and it can't be detected by taking your blood pressure or temperature. But make no mistake about it; depression during the holidays is

  • AFSPC commander sends Thanksgiving holiday safety message

    To the Air Force Space Command family,Thanksgiving has many great traditions; turkey, pumpkin pie (pecan for our southern relatives), casseroles, a warm fire and a day cheering on your favorite team, to name a few.  However, the best Thanksgiving tradition is quality time spent with family, friends

  • Patrick-Cape supports NDEAM, TRM awareness

    Held each October, National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) and Triple Ribbon Month are observed as part of a nationwide annual campaign to raise awareness. The purpose of NDEAM is to educate people about disability employment and celebrate the many contributions of America's workers

  • Commissaries ‘go pink’ for breast cancer awareness

    Commissary shoppers will see lots of pink in October."Throughout October, our customers will find samplings and demonstrations in recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month," said Tracie Russ, DeCA's director of sales.In observance of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, DeCA's

  • Safety begins by reading labels

    Summer is traditionally a popular season to work on do-it-yourself projects, from everything to home improvements to online self-assembled crafts. While people are eager to get started, the most important aspect of any project isn't making a supply list, or finding the best deal; it's safety first.

  • Vindication comes to scientist 60 years later

    Although not that long ago, it's somewhat difficult to imagine a world without global positioning systems, Google Earth or the Internet.It's harder still to visualize a 21st century scientific research laboratory without super computers, high definition microscopes or fully-digitized equipment.Yet,

  • 10 hurricane preparation tips to know

    The ingredients for a hurricane include a pre- existing weather disturbance, warm tropical oceans, moisture, and relatively light winds aloft. If the right conditions persist long enough, they can combine to produce the violent winds, incredible waves, torrential rains, and floods we associate with

  • 'Here comes the boom'

    Although it is a job that has been glorified by Hollywood in recent years, the men and women who have earned the right to call themselves Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians know that the job is anything but. It's flat out hard work.With temperatures reaching into the mid-90s on a supposedly

  • Team Patrick-Cape walks a ‘mile in her shoes’

    Team Patrick-Cape volunteers place 1,046-marker flags near the track at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., April 18, 2014, to symbolize the number of reported sexual assault victims in the Air Force in 2013. The 45th Space Wing hosted a "Mile in her Shoes" run-walk, in conjunction with other Sexual

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  • Greatest privilege of my command here so far

    Created early in the Civil War, the Medal of Honor is awarded to those who distinguished themselves "conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity" in combat with an enemy of the United States. Last Thursday evening at Riverfront Park in Cocoa, I was watching first-hand as one of our own was recognized

  • Team Patrick-Cape: It’s all about 'Esprit de corps and Commitment'

    Join me in giving a large 45th Space Wing kudos to SpaceX and all mission partners involved in last week's successful Pad Abort Test mission.As you know, this is just one of the many steps we'll continue to do with our mission partners as we lean forward in creating the "Spaceport of the Future"

  • The Military Spouse: We owe them love, gratitude, respect

    While all military observances carry great importance, I can't think of any more fitting - and more justified - than the one we will officially celebrate May 8.That's when we'll join hands with military installations all around the world celebrating Military Spouse Appreciation Day here at Team

  • 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

  • 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



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