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  • Airman 1st Class Justin Nystrom, 45th Logistics Readiness Squadron fleet management analysis technician, performs a vehicle assessment at Patrick Space Force Base, Fla., Nov. 30, 2022. Nystrom provided medical aid to a citizen involved in a car crash on Sep. 5, 2022. (U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Thomas Sjoberg)

    Airman Rushes to Citizen’s Aid in Car Accident

    On September 5, 2022, Airman 1st Class Justin Nystrom, 45th Logistics Readiness Squadron fleet management analysis technician, provided medical aid to a citizen involved in a horrific car crash.
  • U.S. Air Force Maj. Nathan Motz, 45th Weather Squadron, delivers a mission briefing to participants of the BRAVO Hackathon during a tour of the Morrell Operations Center July 19, 2022, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. The event brought engineers, scientists, and coders together from four countries to solve problems with the launch mission. (U.S. Space Force photo by Amanda Inman)

    Patrick SFB joins Eglin and Langley AFB to host BRAVO Hackathon

    More than 140 American citizens from four countries descended upon Patrick Space Force Base for the BRAVO 1 Canary Release Hackathon July 18 – 22.
  • U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Kennith McLoud, Air Force Operations Test and Evaluations Center operations research analyst, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., places a piece of wood inside a laser engraver, June 29, 2022, at Patrick Space Force Base, Fla. McLoud is assisting Space Launch Delta 45’s innovation center, The Forge, develop solutions for more than a dozen issues at Patrick SFB and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. (U.S. Space Force photo by Tech. Sgt. James Hodgman)

    Project Arc fosters innovation across Air and Space Force

    Scientists and engineers across the U.S. Air and Space Force are being deployed to more than a dozen bases in the United States to develop innovative solutions to a variety of problems.
  • U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Christopher Brown, 45th Civil Engineer Squadron, monitors dirt loading operations during a training session March 17, 2022, at Patrick Space Force Base, Fla. Brown and several CE Airmen are preparing to compete in Readiness Challenge VIII at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., April 18-22. The competition will test their abilities to complete tasks associated with the CE career field. (U.S. Space Force photo by Josh Conti)

    PSFB CE team to compete in first Air Force readiness challenge in 22 years

    Military members are constantly focused on full-spectrum readiness. They must be able to respond at a moment’s notice to any situation including humanitarian assistance operations, international rescue missions, counterterrorism, and combat.
  • A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a GPS III-5 satellite into orbit launches from LC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., June 17, 2021. The GPS III satellites have signals three times more accurate than the current generation of satellites and eight times the jamming resistance.

    Cape Canaveral SFS to host annual Space Force T-Minus 10-miler race

    CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FLA. – The United States Space Force inaugural T-Minus 10-Miler will lift-off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station next year, Dec. 10, 2022.This 10-mile race will be a part of the Space Force birthday celebration each year, and will take place surrounded by space launch history, at Cape Canaveral SFS.“Cape
  • The 45th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal team places bricks of C-4, an explosive used for detonation, on a NASA rocket motor for disposal at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., May 19, 2021. The EOD team removed a grenade from a house in Palm Bay, Fla., Nov. 24 and an Mk58 Marine Location Marker in Satellite Beach, Fla., Nov. 25. (U.S. Space Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dakota Raub)

    Air Force EOD team removes grenade from Florida home, flare from beach

    Discovering an explosive in the garage while you prepare for Thanksgiving, is probably not on anyone’s to-do list. When Johnny Winters, a tool technician from Georgia was cleaning out his father-in-law’s garage in Palm Bay, Florida, Nov. 24, he found an MK2 grenade.
  • Master Sgt. Keith Carpenter, Space Launch Delta 45 Inspector General superintendent, stands in front of a space launch complex Aug. 9, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Carpenter, who in 2020 was a 5th Space Launch Squadron spacecraft flight chief, won the Space Operations Command Space Launch Maintainer of the Year award in the senior noncommissioned officer category. (U.S. Space Force photo by Airman 1st Class Samuel Becker)

    Airmen claim USSF maintainer awards: ‘We are the insurance for the Space Force’

    Three Airmen at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, responsible for supporting missions valued at more than $5 billion, were selected as the top maintainers in the U.S. Space Force for 2020.
  • Retired Chief Master Sgt. Ruth Urbina, a U.S. Air Force Wounded Warrior program ambassador, shares her battle with post traumatic stress disorder with Airmen July 28, 2021, at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida. Urbina served more than two decades in the communications career field. (U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti)

    Wounded warriors share message of resiliency in Florida

    I did not know I got shot,” said the sergeant. “I thought a flare hit my legs.” He was on his second deployment in Afghanistan in July 2011 serving on a combat search and rescue team. His mission was to recover wounded service members. “Going out and getting shot at” was routine, he said, as his unit averaged eight missions a day. On the day a bullet tore through his legs inside an HH 60 Pave Hawk helicopter, U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. August O’Niell, 414th Combat Training Squadron Detachment 1 flight chief in charge of ground operations at Davis-Monthan, Air Force Base, Arizona, said his world changed.
  • Tom Penders, 45th Civil Engineer Squadron cultural resources manager, stands in front of an American flag

    Archaeologist receives DOD environmental award

    The Department of Defense announced in a press release April 22, that Penders, a native of Titusville, Florida, is the 2021 Secretary of Defense Environmental Award winner in the Cultural Resources Management, Individual/Team category. The award recognizes installations, teams and individuals for outstanding achievement in DOD, Air Force and Space Force environmental programs.
  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 39A April 23, 2021, at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The rocket launched the four members of Dragon Crew-2 into space. The astronauts will spend six months on the International Space Station performing a variety of experiments and maintenance actions. (U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti)

    Patrick SFB, Cape Canaveral SFS support mission to ISS

    Just before 6 a.m., Friday, a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket carried the four astronauts of Dragon Crew-2 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, into space. The launch is the third commercial crew human space flight mission in less than a year. The crew, which consists of NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, from France, are set to dock with the International Space Station April 24.
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