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  • After two full years, saying farewell

    For the eighth and final time over two years, it is my privilege to address you from the Commander's Corner. It's hard to believe two years can pass so quickly, but the moving boxes stacked in our driveway and a quickly emptying house are sure evidence our days among the Sharks of the 45th Space

  • Leadership: Service Before Self

    In a twisted way, leadership is both extremely easy and extremely difficult. It's easy because there are simple, consistent and enduring themes that any leader will tell you will work. But it's hard because what you hear from someone else in a classroom situation is sometimes much more difficult to

  • Freedom is not free this July Fourth

    The Fourth of July is our greatest celebration of freedom and the words "Freedom is not free" have extra-special meaning this year as we surge into the fifth year of war in Iraq.As with any war, this conflict has brought with it high costs in terms of sacrifice and loss. Fortunately, we have not

  • Looking back, looking forward

    This week marks my first anniversary as 45th Space Wing commander. It has certainly been a gratifying year as I review the accomplishments of the Sharks! We've had 15 launches on the Eastern Range during this time frame, including four shuttle missions to the ISS, two Delta II Global Positioning

  • Mental readiness... the warrior's vow

    As men and women charged with defending our country, we have a responsibility to maintain readiness in every area of our lives -- our equipment, our training, our attitudes, and even our minds. Mental readiness is the most important, for, without it, all other readiness is ineffective. While there

  • Meeting our challenges

    Greetings! I would like to thank the entire Wing and our Mission Partners for the hard work to help send off the Space Shuttle last week - and for what you are about to do to send off the Atlas V launch late this week! I sense that our 'dry spell' is over, and that the launches will now come at us

  • Good order and discipline -- boiling down the facts

    All military people abide by good order and discipline, right? What I don't know is how disciplined we are with the smaller things in life that become big things if we let them. Managing money is one of those things. If you let small over expenditures accumulate, the resulting debt can wreak havoc

  • Staying fit to fight critical

    Experiencing weightlessness is one of the great things about living on the International Space Station and flying on the Space Shuttle. Such is not the case back on Earth. Here, gravity and Air Force fitness standards remind us that pounds count.Because staying fit to fight is critical in our

  • What type of leader are you?

    What type of leader are you? I've been encouraged at several points throughout my career to "cast my net widely" and actively pursue a professional reading repertoire. It was in a reading club where we read a book called "The Tipping Point" by Malcom Gladwell (Little, Brown and Com-pany, 2002) and

  • Honor our heroes...

    With Sunday's tragic news that seven U.S. servicemembers were killed in Iraq Saturday, Memorial Day took on a more somber and personal meaning to the friends and families of those young American heroes. Those seven are among the almost 3,500 American troops who have died in the Iraq War and the



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  • 45th MSG Det. 1 change of command

    Col. Matthew Wallace, 45th Mission Support Group commander, left, presents Lt. Col. Gregory Lindsey, 45th MSG Detachment 1 commander, with the 45th MSG Det.1 guidon during a change of command ceremony, July 20, 2015, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Changes of command are a military

  • Patrick Airman named one of the Air Force's best

    Tech. Sgt. Tamara Acfalle, 45th Force Support Squadron Airman Leadership School Instructor, was named one of 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2015, for Air Force Space Command. An Air Force selection board at the Air Force Personnel Center considered 35 nominees who represented major commands,

  • 45th Space Wing Launches WGS-7 from 'The Cape'

    The U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV rocket at 8:07 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 37B carrying the seventh Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite, July 23, 2015. This was the 30th Delta IV mission since the vehicle's inaugural flight

  • 'Who you gonna call?'

    Who are you going to call if you need help? Airmen Against Drunk Driving, Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, Mental Health Representative, Chaplain, Military family Life Counselor, Military Crisis Line, Military One Source, Airmen and Family Readiness Center and the Law Enforcement Desk. Save this

  • 45th OG Det. 2 change of command

    Col. Thomas Falzarano, 45th Operations Group commander, left, presents Maj. Timothy Sheehan, 45th Operations Group Detachment 2 commander, with the guidon during a change of command ceremony at Ascension Auxiliary Airfield, Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean, July 7, 2015. Changes of command are

  • 30 Patrick-Cape members promote to master sergeant

    The Air Force selected 5,301 technical sergeants out of 23,619 eligible for promotion to master sergeant, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced.Team Patrick-Cape had 30 members promote to the rank of master sergeant.45th Space Wing Selectees:Michael Bramble, 45th Civil Engineer

  • 45th CES change of command

    Col. Matthew Wallace, 45th Mission Support Group commander, presents Lt. Col. Jason Glynn, 45th Civil Engineer Squadron commander, with the 45th CES guidon during a change of command ceremony July 14 at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Changes of command are a military tradition representing the

  • 10th-generation GPS satellite gets ride from Atlas V

    The U.S. Air Force and the 45th Space Wing supported the successful launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that roared skyward from Launch Complex 41 here carrying the Air Force's tenth Block IIF navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System at 11:36 a.m. EDT.The rocket flew in

  • 45th SW says Farewell to Antigua Air Station

    After more than 50 years of operations, Antigua Air Station was deactivated July 7 in a ceremony held on the island.Brig. Gen. Nina Armagno, 45th Space Wing commander and presiding officer of the ceremony, sheathed the detachment colors in a sleeve, symbolizing the organizations inactive status,

  • 45th RMS change of command

    Col. Thomas Falzarano, 45th Operations Group commander, left, presents Maj. Elwood Waddell, 45th Range Management Squadron commander, with the 45th RMS guidon during a change of command ceremony July 1, 2015, at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Changes of command are a military tradition representing