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COMMANDER’S CORNER: MOM BECOMES FAMILY CHILD CARE PROVIDER - PAGE 2 Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Vol. 61 No. 15

21st SW receives Omaha Trophy for global operations By Senior Airman Rose Gudex 21st Space Wing Public Affairs

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — “There is no more global operations capability than you’ll find in (the 21st Space Wing),” said Gen. John E. Hyten, U. S. Strategic Command commander. “They are as far north as Thule Air Base, Greenland, south across the entire United States and spread out all over the world. “ The 21st Space Wing was awarded the Omaha Trophy, recognizing the team as USSTRATCOM’s premier space or cyberspace unit for global operations during a ceremony at the auditorium on Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, April 6. Col. Doug Schiess, 21st SW commander, accepted the award from Hyten and Mogens Bay, Strategic Command Consultation Committee. The 21st SW provides missile warning and space control to North American Aerospace Defense Command and USSTRATCOM through a network of command and control units, and ground and space-based sensors operated by geographically separated units around the world. “From your operational command’s perspective, there is not much of a larger award you can get,” Hyten said. An advisory group of business leaders in Omaha, See Operations page 4

(U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dennis Hoffman)

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. –Col. Doug Schiess, 21st Space Wing commander, accepts the Omaha Trophy from Gen. John Hyten, U.S. Strategic Command commander, and Mogens Bay, Strategic Command Consultation Committee, on behalf of the 21st SW during a ceremony in the auditorium on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., April 6, 2017. This was the first time the 21st SW received the award since its inception in 2008.

AFSPC commander unveils three major space initiatives at 33rd Space Symposium By 1st Lt. Christopher Merian Headquarters Air Force Space Command Public Affairs

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Air Force unveiled three significant space initiatives at the 33rd Space Symposium here Tuesday. During a keynote address, General Jay Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command, announced a new office for space at the Air Staff, a new warfighting construct for space, and improvements in space battle management command and control. Raymond highlighted the 35-year history of AFSPC, its Airmen, and how the command has evolved from its creation during the Cold War, its first combat engagement during Operation Desert Storm, and the current space threats our nation faces today. He noted the successful test of an anti-satellite weapon by the Chinese in 2007, which created more than 3,000 pieces of space debris, and marked the beginning of a new era for space. “That event marked the third phase of this command — the modern era for military space, where space is a joint warfighting domain,” said Raymond. “Just like air, land and sea, space is a warfighting domain and the Airmen of AFSPC are joint warfighters.” See Initiatives page 10 (U.S. Air Force graphic)

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