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  • Missoula Children's Theater comes to Patrick AFB

    Aspiring young thespians spent a week auditioning, studying lines, singing songs and learning proper staging in preparation for Patrick AFB Youth Center's production of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" July 26, 2013.Missoula Children's Theater came to the Space Coast to produce a musical complete

  • Random acts of kindness

    First sergeants from around the 45th Space Wing and its mission partners, surprised junior enlisted Airmen and their family members by providing $25 gas cards at the Express, formally known as the Shoppette, at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., July 24, 2013, during a "Random Acts of Kindness" day.

  • 45th SW Launches second Mobile User Objective System satellite

    The U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing successfully launched the second Mobile User Objective System satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, for the U.S. Navy at 9 a.m. July 19 here.The United Launch Alliance built Atlas V rocket will fly in the 5-5-1 vehicle configuration with a five-meter fairing, five

  • 45th SW Launch Weather Officer interviews with The Weather Channel

    Kathy Winters, a launch weather officer with the 45th Space Wing Weather Squadron and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, participated in a live on-camera interview with Reynolds Wolf of The Weather Channel, at John F. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Fla., July 9. Winters discussed Patrick AFB's

  • One boy’s trash is another boy’s treasure

    For someone who doesn't play baseball, doesn't follow baseball, and doesn't even know the rules of the game, he sure does have a lot invested in the sport.Rafael Nuñez, a computer security manager for the Air Force Technical Applications Center here, has spent the past seven months collecting

  • Commissaries collect items for Feds Feed Families

    The 2013 Feds Feed Families food drive campaign is in full swing as commissaries once again serve as one of the collection points on military installations.Military customers and federal employees can donate nonperishable food and personal hygiene items to the campaign using marked bins located at

  • September Worldwide Case Lot Sale Cancelled

    The Defense Commissary Agency is cancelling its September case lot sale because of budgetary reductions mandated under sequestration.This announcement follows DeCA's decision in February to cancel the May case lot sale. The case lot cancellations are part of ongoing steps to reduce operating costs

  • The Morning After: A Look at DUI Consequences

    It was a fun night that ended in a not so fun way. You received a DUI, and now you are dealing with the consequences. We hear about others getting DUI's, but rarely do we think about the cost that goes along with it. First, if you are stopped either for suspicion of DUI or at a random roadside