COMMANDER’S CORNER: SPACE AS A WARFIGHTING DOMAIN - PAGE 2 Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Vol. 61 No. 36
21CONS: two continents and a big island By Senior Airman Dennis Hoffman 21st Space Wing Public Affairs
(U.S. Air Force photo by Alethea Smock)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Maj. Scott Schneider, 21st Contracting Squadron Detachment 1 commander, works at the U.S. Embassy in the Kingdom of Denmark Aug. 8, 2017. Working with the U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and the rest of the State Department in Copenhagen, 21st CONS Det. 1 also facilitates discussions between the Kingdom of Denmark, the U.S. and the 21st Space Wing in matters that effect Thule Air Base.
Green Dot visits NCOA By Steve Kotecki 21st Space Wing Public Affairs
By Story by Master Sgt. Eric Sharman 386th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs
SOUTHWEST ASIA — In a deployed environment, adequate medical care is crucial to ensuring that people can execute the mission. Our airmen need to be physically and mentally healthy or the mission could suffer. The 386th Expeditionary Medical Group boasts a medical clinic, physical therapist, mental health team and dental clinic as just some of the available services paramount to keeping our airmen mission ready, and in the fight. But what do you do when an airman needs medical attention and isn’t a person? This was a riddle that Army Capt. Margot Boucher, Officer-in-Charge of the base Veterinary Treatment Facility had to solve recently when military working dog Arthur, a military asset valued at almost $200K,
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AF dentist, Army veterinarian team up for K-9 root canal in AOR
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Nate Burke, Air Force Green Dot program senior trainer and project lead, spoke with students at the Forrest L. Vosler Non-Commissioned Officer Academy on Aug. 22, 2017. The stop was part of a regularly scheduled visit by the Green Dot team to Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. Green Dot is a violence prevention initiative created and started by Dr. Dorothy Edwards, Green Dot executive director, that was adopted by the Air Force in 2015. The program is intended to be different than other violence prevention methods in that it tries to break down the barrier between sexes and the divide between perpetrator and victim, said Burke. “Green Dot was born out of failure, instead of beating someone over the head with the idea that all men are evil and all women are victims of sexual violence, we shift the focus to the bystander.” Burke said. “Dr. Edwards came to the realization though studies and interviews that a vast majority of
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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Located across the pond in Copenhagen, Denmark, and eight hours ahead of Colorado, a team of Airmen work tirelessly to ensure that contracts are executed in order to allocate life-support resources and maintain mission assurance for the 21st Space Wing Airmen at Thule Air Base, Greenland. The mission of the 821st Air Base Group at Thule AB is to enable force projection, space superiority and scientific research in the Arctic Region for the U.S. and its NATO allies through integrated base support and defense operations. The group operates and maintains the base in support of missile warning and space surveillance as well as satellite command and control operations missions. The 1951 Defense Agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the U.S. established the Thule Defense Area which subsequently produced Thule AB and the 821st ABG. Housed in the U.S. Embassy, 21st Contracting Squadron Detachment 1 works closely with the Department of State and the Kingdom of Denmark, which includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands. 21st CONS Det. 1 in coordination with the 21st Space Wing Program Management Division, 821st ABG, the 21st Civil Engineer Squadron, the 21st Logistics Readiness Squadron, and others provide all contracted life support services and base operations for Thule AB, said Maj. Scott Schneider, 21st CONS Det. 1 commander.
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(U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jonathan Hehnly)
SOUTHWEST ASIA — U.S. Army Pfc. Landon Kelsey (right), a military working dog handler assigned to the 1st Armored Division, places his hand on his military working dog, Arthur, as U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Brent Waldman (left), the Medical Operations Flight commander assigned to the 386th Expeditionary Medical Group, performs a root canal procedure on the MWD at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. The military working dog received a root canal to prevent infection after it recently broke a tooth during controlled aggression training.
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