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  • 2nd Lt. Andrea Taylor tries to get past Senior Airman Richere Harrison during practice for the Air Force Women's Basketball Team at the Patrick Fitness Center April 30. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Lisa Luse)

    Air Force basketball team returns to Patrick

    The Patrick Air Force Base Fitness Center is the base camp for 15 female Airmen who are in training for the 2009 Armed Forces Basketball Championship.These players are from bases throughout the country and the world, including one Airman assigned to Misawa Air Base, Japan.The Armed Forces Championship consists of six games to determine the overall
  • The members of the 45th Weather Squadron before the start of the Sunrise to Sunset Relay, a 178 mile marathon from Jensen Beach to Fort Myers, Fla., March 27. (U.S. Air Force photo courtesy of Staff Sgt. Carrie Volpe)

    Weather Airmen run across Sunshine State

    How many Airmen does it take to cross the state of Florida?Eighteen, according to the 45th Weather Squadron, because that's how many ran in the 2009 Sunrise to Sunset Relay March 27-28.The Sunrise to Sunset Relay is an across-the-state marathon starting out at Jensen Beach and finishing at Fort Myers, a total of 178 miles broken down into 36

  • Women's History Month: the right to fight

    What would it be like to be a patriotic American and denied the opportunity to serve in the U.S. military at times of war? And what would it be like to have served honorably in a military capacity, suffer injuries under hostile enemy fire or even lose your life, and not even be recognized as a veteran?In May of 1782, a 22 year-old youngster by the
  • Jerry McAnulty (center) with (left to right) 45th Space Wing Commander Brig. Gen. Edward L. Bolton Jr., Col. (ret.) Thomas Bouthiller, 45th SW Vice Commander Stephen Butler and 45th Mission Support Group Commander Col. Charles Beck at Mr. McAnulty's retirement as head of Patrick Air Force Base's branch of Project Emeritus March 12 at The Tides. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class David Dobrydney)

    Project Emeritus head retires – for the third time

    After graduating from high school in 1955, the North Carolina teen-ager said he was faced with three career options, and none of them appealed to him.And the fourth, an assignment to the first-ever class of the brand-new Air Force Academy that year was out of reach "because I didn't have the grades in the math and sciences.""I probably could've
  • Thomas Penders of the 45th Civil Engineer Squadron holds a piece of ancient pottery uncovered at the Little Midden site at Cape Canaveral Feb. 27. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class David Dobrydney)

    Volunteers dig up ancient history at Cape

    In the shadow of Delta II boosters being readied for launch carrying the latest in scientific equipment, pieces of ancient history are being plucked from the earth by a small but hardy group of volunteers.Led by Thomas Penders, cultural resource manager for the 45th Space Wing, they are recovering artifacts from some of the earliest inhabitants of
  • Lt. Col. Mike Tillema, Lt. Col. Robert Lindsay, Lt. Col. Dave Impiccini with the shuttle after its successful landing at Kennedy Space Center. (U.S. Air Force photo courtesy of Lt. Col. Mike Tillema)

    Sharks fly with shuttle on return trip

    Nine 45th Operations Group personnel led the Department of Defense charge supporting NASA and helped bring the Space Shuttle Endeavour back to Kennedy Space center during the recent ferry flight of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) and the Shuttle.Detachment 3 is the only unit in the Air Force that coordinates ferry flight operations at DoD
  • The members of Detachment 1, 2nd Space Operations Squadron sit at Cape Canaveral in April 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo courtesy of Tech. Sgt. Kelly Robles)

    Deactivation ends two decades of service on Cape Canaveral

    The Air Force men and women of Detachment 1, 2nd Space Operations Squadron officially handed over responsibility of the Global Positioning System (GPS) Ground Station May 1 at Cape Canaveral to Artic Slope World Services.The transition, part of the Network and Space Operations and Maintenance (NSOM) contract, marks the end of more than 22 years of
  • PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - Staff Sgt. Terry Bufkin of the 45th Security Forces Squadron shows the attributes of a pistol to a group of students from Brevard Community College. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class David Dobrydney)

    Security forces school local students

    With all of the reality shows on television, it can be hard to narrow down any one favorite to watch. The channels are lined up with singing, dancing and survival shows.Among these popular shows are the crime scene investigation series such as CSI Miami, Las Vegas and New York. In these shows, the investigators analyze every speck of evidence down
  • Staff Sgt. Trisha Scheu with some local children during her recent deployment to Afghanistan on an "in lieu of" assignment augmenting Army troops. (U.S. Air Force photo courtesy of Staff Sgt. Trisha Scheu

    Shark in the desert: Airman augments Army in Afghanistan

    Nearly one year ago Staff Sgt. Trisha Scheu, a senior controller in the 45th Space Wing Command Post, heard there was a tasking for a deployment coming down to her office. "It was not specifically tasked to me but I went willingly," she said. "At the time, it wasn't something that came along for our career field too often."She and her co-workers
  • Volunteers from the 45th Space Wing with faculty members from the Space Coast Early Intervention Center during the Center's recent move. (Courtesy photo)

    Airmen help local school during move

    Sometimes Sharks can help the smallest fish.Recently members of the 5th and 1st Space Launch Squadrons helped the Space Coast Early Intervention Center (SCEIC) move to a new facility in Melbourne.SCEIC is non-profit preschool designed specifically to support young children challenged with disabilities. Their program consists of placing role models
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