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Delta 2 enlisted members recite the oath of enlistment during a transfer ceremony Oct. 2, 2020, on Peterson Air Force Base. The ceremony inducted select officer and enlisted space professionals to transfer into the U.S. Space Force. Delta 2â€™s mission is to execute combat-ready space domain awareness operations to deter aggression and ultimately protect the United States and our allies from attacks in space.

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First-ever vice CSO joins U.S. Space Force By Lynn Kirby | SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE PUBLIC AFFAIRS WASHINGTON, (AFNS) — In a small ceremony at the Pentagon, Lt. Gen. David D. “DT” Thompson assumed responsibilities as the vice chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force Oct. 2, 2020. During the ceremony, Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, U.S. Space Force chief of space operations, administered the oath of office, transferring Thompson from the Air Force to the Space Force. “I’ve known this officer for most of my adult life,” said Raymond. “DT is an exceptional leader with a dedicated work ethic who truly lives our core value of service before self. He is absolutely the right person to be the Space Force’s first vice chief.” Thompson will assist Raymond in working across the DoD on all aspects of the Space Force’s primary responsibility of organizing, training and equipping space forces to provide space capabilities for the joint force. “The importance of the vice service chief is to be an equal partner with other vice service chiefs to advocate and provide the space perspective in Pentagon processes,” said Thompson. “Vice service chiefs work together to make sure the advocacy is right, the priority is right, the integration is right, the requirements are right, and decisions brought to the Joint Chiefs and Department Secretaries reflect all of that appropriately.” In his new role, Thompson said the CSO has given him two immediate priorities. “Building the service headquarters at the Pentagon and crystalizing and defining this new thing called the Space Warfighting Integration Center are what I’ll be focusing on over the next 90 days,” Thompson said.

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Now that the new service has established much of its organizational structure, Thompson said the Space Force is ready to transition service headquarters type functions from Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, to the Pentagon. The SWIC will be similar to the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability and Army Futures Command. The plan is to make it a field operating agency or a direct reporting unit to the CSO, and will require legislative support in fiscal year 2022.

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“We have conceived of SWIC as a key feature of force design and integration not just internally, but with the rest of the force,” said Thompson. “What we now need to do is the hard work of defining exactly what it’s going to do, exactly what its resources need to be, and exactly what its interfaces are going to be within the Space Force and the joint force.” While Thompson’s promotion added a fourth star to his uniform and celebrated the Space Force’s first VCSO, it was also a moment of reflection for the man behind the position as he said farewell to his 35-year career in the Air Force. “Today means a lot to me personally, and I was a little emotional remembering dreaming as a boy of going to the United States Air Force Academy and joining the Air Force,” Thompson said. “I always appreciated being an Airman and felt privileged to serve the great and honorable institution that is the United States Air Force. Today was my last day as an active duty Airman, and it was a little bittersweet.” Thompson was commissioned in 1985 upon graduation from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in astronautical engineering. He is a career space officer with assignments in operations, acquisition, research and development, and academia. He has commanded operational space units at the squadron, group and wing levels. Thompson’s formal promotion ceremony will be held later in Colorado to celebrate this milestone with family and friends. Technical Sgt. Armando A. Schwier-Morales contributed to this report.

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MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — Air University's Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy recently graduated its first Space Force members Sept. 25, 2020. Master Sgt. Jeffrey Roberts and Master Sgt. Robert Yarnes are only two of the more than 2,000 organic space operators in officer and enlisted AFSCs who began transferring Sept. 1, 2020, but the first from the SNCOA. Roberts is currently the Superintendent of the National Security Space Institute at Peterson-Schriever Garrison, Colorado and Yarnes is the current Division Manager at Joint Task Force–Space Defense at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. Master Sgt. Roberts has always dreamed of supporting operations in space. “Space was always the original intent for joining the military,” Roberts said. “When asked to join the United States Space Force my decision was based on continuing the mission and to be part of something fantastic at the same time! It is a fresh start where the influence of a few will result in the betterment of the many.” Master Sgt. Yarnes on the other hand was rather surprised about the opportunity. “I did not even imagine that there would be a U.S. Space Force, much less that I would be one of the first few thousand members,” Yarnes said. “It is an incredible honor to help stand up the new service and work alongside so many highly qualified professionals. I do feel truly blessed that I get to be a part of it.” SNCOA aims to inspire Senior enlisted leader intellec-

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Airman 1st Class Kokou Dekadjevi, 96th Medical Group, administers a COVID-19 test Aug. 10 at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida Dekadjevi and the medical group’s diagnostic testing center employees administered more than 330 tests in a two-day span to 7th Special Forces Group Soldiers returning from a deployment. WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Air Force Materiel Command began a phased roll-out of COVID-19 surveillance testing Oct. 1, 2020. This surveillance testing will initially begin with active-duty populations at four AFMC bases: Edwards Air Force Base, California; Eglin AFB, Florida; Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts; and, Hill AFB, Utah. Participation in this testing effort is voluntary. The testing will be conducted in 14-day periods, eventually testing 100 total active-duty personnel at each location within the first two months of testing. The active-duty populations selected for testing at the above locations include the following: Period 1: Health care workers Period 2: Dorm residents Period 3: Host wing personnel Period 4: Installation workforce As testing efforts are fine-tuned and streamlined, testing will expand farther to other AFMC installations and among other base populations. At this point in time, testing will begin only within these active-duty populations. The testing effort is part of a larger Department of the Air Force sentinel surveillance strategy to randomly test Air and Space Force military and civilian personnel to identify and contain pockets of the coronavirus. The goal is to test people without symptoms for COVID-19 to determine if additional public health actions are needed in work areas. Ultimately, the Air Force wants to ensure Airmen and the Air Force community remain healthy and able to fly, fight and win in air, space, and cyberspace. Individuals selected for testing will be notified via an email message from their local Military Treatment Facility. Any selected personnel with a positive confirmed case of COVID-19 within the last 90 days will not be tested. These four bases will use the oral fluid coronavirus test provided by Curative, Inc., with whom the Air Force signed an agreement in April to deploy and scale an oral fluid coronavirus test that received a Food and Drug Administration emergency-use authorization. The test collects saliva with a cotton swab and examines it for the COVID-19 virus. Four to six individual samples will be grouped together (also called aggregated testing). The aggregated sample will receive an identification number and then be tested for the presence of the COVID-19 virus. Due to the rules for using this test to identify COVID-19 activity in populations of people without symptoms, tests will not be ordered through the medical system and results will not be placed in health records. Aggregated sample results will be provided to commanders to allow them See COVID page 11

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Col. Patrick Pohle, 21st Medical Group commander, left, unsheathes the guidon to activate the 21st Dental Squadron, Sept. 10, 2020 at Peterson Air Force Base. In July of 2019, the Dental Squadron was deactivated and reorganized into the 21st Operational Medical Readiness Squadron in an effort to streamline medical readiness, as ordered by the Air Force Surgeon General. One year later the Dental Squadron was officially reactivated Sept. 30, 2020. Col. William Dickson, incoming 21st DS commander, says he is thankful for the change, because it allows the dental clinic and dental area lab to better express their needs and provides more opportunities to the Airmen assigned to the unit.

Air Force, Space Force select students for space test fundamentals course By 2nd Lt. Christine Saunders | AIR FORCE TEST CENTER PUBLIC AFFAIRS EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) — The Air Force Test Center’s Test Pilot School is one step closer to standing up the Space Test Fundamentals course. “Today, here in this building, a board is selecting the first class of space professionals to attend our new space test fundamentals course,” said Maj. Gen. Christopher Azzano, AFTC commander, during the Multi-Domain Test Force activation ceremony held Oct. 1 in the Test Pilot School Scobee auditorium. “How fitting that we’re talking about a new paradigm for domain-integrated test in the halls of our own test pilot schoolhouse.”

The U.S. Space Force Test Directorate and Air Force Test Center’s Test Pilot School, or TPS, completed the selection board for the inaugural Space Test Fundamentals course. The school received 166 applicants prior to its Sept. 15 application deadline. The board selected students for the three planned courses for 2021 with the initial course scheduled to begin in January 2021. The course is a 13-week, hands-on program designed to train personnel in the fundamentals of space domain test and evaluation. “This is the most in-depth, hands-on space domain

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One such crisis was the Ebola pandemic in West Africa. I collaborated with the U.S. Army, U.S. embassies, the African Union, non-government organizations, and sister services of partner nations to develop a program and build a capability that did not yet exist. In Accra, Ghana, we used the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center as a platform to launch the West African Disaster Response Initiative. This program enabled West African nations to effectively respond to the Ebola pandemic as well as future pandemics. My experience as an International Health Specialist was critical to my success in this role. Similarly, I witnessed my colleagues facilitate a whole-of-government response when they were called to support Task Force-Southeast, which was set up to coordinate domestic COVID-19 pandemic response activities. They worked in support of U.S. Army North and the Federal Emergency Management Agency filling positions at headquarters, to include deputy surgeon of the task force. They used their joint operational planning and civil-military operations expertise to facilitate a total force response to the crisis. They were able to provide support because of the preparation and training they received as International Health Specialists. The COVID-19 pandemic taught us the next global crisis could be novel and unexpected. I am confident the DoD and the world can rely on Air Force International Health Specialists to provide whole-of-government capabilities in support of national security objectives.

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Second Lt. Peyton Cooper, 3rd Space Experimentation Squadron mission planner, weaves a basket during a Wingman Day activity at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, Oct. 1, 2020. This year, Wingman Day was spread across four days to encourage maximum participation while safely adhering to COVID-19 health protection guidance.

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Master Sgt. Thomas Locke, 22nd Space Operations Squadron flight chief of mission integration, demonstrates a self-defense technique during a Wingman Day activity at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, Oct. 1, 2020. Locke instructed an hour-long class in which he taught self-defense techniques and gave advice on how to react to a threat. C S M N G . C O M | O C T O B E R 8 , 2 0 2 0 | SPACE OBSERVER

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Il Vegano to launch “vegan desserts with the focus on classic Italian” By Matthew Schniper | Colorado Springs Independent

Drew LiVigni should be familiar to area diners from his past 10 years working at Shuga’s. But that only represents a quarter of his total time in the industry. And now, at 58, following a Covid-related layoff, he’s breaking out on his own with Il Vegano, billed as “vegan desserts with the focus on classic Italian.” He says the idea grew out of making all types of vegan desserts at home, but he narrowed to Italian delicacies in-part to not overextend himself and also to honor his time growing up in New York, where he fondly recalls buying cookings by the pound from Italian bakeries. “It’s all based on traditional cookies and trying to get as close to the flavor and consistency that I remember,” he tells me by phone, citing examples like an anise-flavored, sesame-seed coated Biscotti Regina and a ricotta cookie made with cashew-based cheese. On his Kickstarter page, LiVigni, also a photographer and creative essayist, calls Il Vegano “the culmination of my Sicilian roots and my love of cooking” and explains that he wants “to create desserts for vegans, no matter how you came to this decision, but also for non vegans. To help them get over the hesitation of eating a plant based diet. And what better way to do that than entice them with sweets”? Currently he’s operating inside the cottage industry, home-based, but LiVigni aims to expand into space inside Lulu’s Downstairs, where the future may hold vegan pop-up dinners as well. He and Lulu’s proprietor Marc Benning are in discussions on what all that might look like, but LiVigni aims to use the Kickstarter funds to purchase necessary equipment to scale up. Meanwhile he hopes to build wholesale clients like local markets and coffee shops plus direct retail clients with possible delivery options. His ultimate dream is a small bistro. Keep an eye on Il Vegano’s Facebook page for updates; products could be on local shelves for sale as early as Oct. 1, tentatively.

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Side Dish is Matthew Schniper’s weekly food news column, which also runs in the Colorado Springs Independent, a sister paper to the Peterson Space Observer. The full edition of his column and his food reviews can be found at csindy.com.

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work practices, and possibly thorough cleaning of the work area. At AFMC installations, testing begins with a randomized selection of 10 activeduty Airmen every 14 days to be tested, beginning with 10 health care workers. The next 14 days will see 10 randomly selected dorm residents, added to the 10 health care workers tested. The following 14 days will add 10 randomly selected host wing personnel to Airmen selected from the other two groups. The next 14 days will add 10 randomly selected Airmen from the installation workforce. The testing effort will be continually evaluated and refined with each round of testing, as may be needed. At the end of the two month roll-out phase, and once the testing is further streamlined, AFMC leadership will evaluate and possibly begin an expansion of the surveillance testing. More information for Airmen affected by the surveillance testing can be found in the AFMC COVID-19 Tier 4 Surveillance Testing FAQ or via their local MTF.