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  • Leaders share messages, priorities at AFA Symposium

    Let me begin by congratulating SpaceX, NASA, NOAA, all our mission partners and "Team Patrick-Cape" on their picture-perfect launch last week of NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory -- known as the DSCOVR mission -- from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.Great job by the entire

  • CSAF: 'It happens; I got to see the most important part'

    About two hours prior to our first attempt to launch NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission from Launch Complex 40 Sunday evening at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, General Mark A. Welsh III, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, and his wife, Betty, along with Chief

  • Lessons taken from CSAF Wing Commander's Call

    Last week, I had the distinct honor and pleasure to attend the Air Force Chief of Staff's "Wing Commander's Call" hosted by Gen. Mark A. Welsh III.It's always good to get clear direction from the top, and this meeting certainly filled the bill on that note.Gen. Welsh began the meeting by telling us

  • D.U.I. - Don’t Underestimate Influenza

    You may be familiar with the following headlines on major news sources: "CDC: Flu shot less effective this year because current virus has mutated," "Why scientists guessed wrong on this year's flu vaccine, and why it could happen again," and "Get Your Flu Shot Anyway, Despite Genetic 'Drift.'" 

  • The Two E’S: ‘EMPOWERMENT AND ENCOURAGEMENT!’

    It doesn't seem possible to me that it's been approximately 18 months since I had my first opportunity to serve as the Launch Decision Authority here on the Eastern Range -- and that was for MUOS-2, which launched July 19, 2013, about five weeks after I had the fantastic opportunity to assume

  • 2015: “The Year of Connection!”

    Let me give a hearty  congratulations to SpaceX, NASA, all our mission partners and to our great "Team Patrick-Cape" members who did an outstanding job with the successful launch of CRS-5,  lifted to the skies on a Falcon 9 Dragon spacecraftin the early morning hours of January 10.This was the fifth

  • 2014: ‘The year that was … fabulous’

    With 2014 coming to a close, I wanted to look back over the year at our successes and the challenges we have faced as a team.No one was sure what to expect this year, especially with the turbulence - and uncertainty - caused with the government shutdown, employee furloughs and sequestration issues

  • Are you ‘In?’

    The college football season is on the home stretch and it's been exciting.As the inaugural year of the national championship playoff system, the country was infused with a spirit of optimism ... maybe your team could make it into the playoff.  Maybe, with a great deal of effort and some luck, they

  • EFT-1: A launch legacy we’ll proudly carry forever

    It seems every time I think I can't be more proud to be your commander, you go and do something else to make me realize (once again) that there is no limit to the greatness this team can achieve when we all come together.That was certainly the case in the early morning hours of Dec. 5, when we fully