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  • AFAF: When financial help hits home

    Two days before Christmas, this was just about the last thing Jennifer Wood wanted to deal with. With a two-year old baby, Anastasia, to take care of, and a husband, Senior Airman Jeffery Wood, a 45th Space Wing Command Post Airman deployed half-a-world away in harm's way, the one thing she wasn't

  • 920th RQW pararescueman earns Bronze Star with Valor Medal

    Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., packed a standing room only base theater here to witness the presentation of a Bronze Star with Valor Medal to TSgt. Dan Warren, 920th RQW, pararescueman.Warren was recognized for his heroic actions during the night of Sept. 14, 2012,

  • Volunteers: Making a living by giving

    Col. Allison Bowden, commander, 45th Medical Group, served as the host forthe Annual Red Cross Volunteer Luncheon held Tuesday at the Tides.She got right down to business when she addressed the approximately 120-or-so volunteers in attendance, along with other Medical Group members and leaders from

  • OPSEC in the Information Age

    "The ability to share information in real time ... is a capability that is both an asset and a potential vulnerability to us, our allies and our adversaries." -Joint Publication 3-13, Information Operations.In recent years, the explosion of social media has fundamentally changed the way we

  • Telling the Air Force Story

    Capt. Josh Carmer, 45th Launch Support Squadron GPS IIF Field program manager, is interviewed by News 13 prior to the United Launch Alliance Delta IV-Medium rocket carrying the fifth Global Positioning System IIF satellite at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Feb. 20, 2014. Carmer shared his

  • Airman ‘STEPs up’ to technical sergeant

    Tech. Sgt. Benjamin Smith, of the 45th Launch Support Squadron, earned an extra stripe under the Air Force's Stripe for Exceptional Performers program here Jan. 27.The STEP program allows Air Force leaders to select Airmen with outstanding potential for promotion to the grades of staff sergeant

  • USAF Launches Fifth GPS Block IIF satellite aboard Delta IV

    The U.S. Air Force successfully launched a United Launch Alliance Delta IV-Medium rocket carrying the fifth Global Positioning System IIF satellite at 8:59 p.m. EST Feb. 20, from Space Launch Complex 37 here.The GPS Block IIF satellites are built by Boeing, and are operated by the United States Air

  • Little is recipient of big space operations award

    Lt. Col. Samuel A. Little, director of operations, 45th Launch Support Squadron was recently named by the National Space Club as recipient of the prestigious General Bernard Schriever Award, honoring excellence in military space operations and acquisition.Little was selected by a panel of experts

  • Clean audit confirms commissaries’ fiscal excellence

    The Defense Commissary Agency's fiscal 2013 financial statements have received a clean audit opinion from independent auditors, an evaluation that certifies the credibility of the benefit for its patrons, the agency's director said."Receiving a clean audit opinion validates the hard work of our DeCA