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  • Command Chief Master Sgt. Timothy Gordon, 30th Space Wing, retires at 2 p.m. June 1 in the Pacific Coast Club at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Chief Gordon served at Vandenberg since April 2005, and retires after 27 years and serving in 15 assignments. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Nicole Roberts)

    Command chief moves on, leaves leadership legacy

    Twenty-seven years have passed since Command Chief Master Sgt. Timothy Gordon made a promise to serve his country in the Air Force. He entered the delayed entry program May 1, 1980, and his career comes full circle in a ceremony at the Pacific Coast Club ballroom at 2 p.m. today when the 30th Space Wing command chief retired.Chief Gordon saw a
  • Tops in Blue Airmen pay tribute and celebrate the Air Force's 60th anniversary during the performance at the Tays Center near Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, N.M. The 40-member group's goal is to enhance mission productivity for Air Force members around the world. Tops in Blue showcases music, dance and comedy, all performed by active-duty Airmen who perform 90 minutes of non-stop live entertainment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Anthony Nelson)

    Tops in Blue 60 years show to be held at Cabrillo Sat.

    A free performance by the Air Force's worldwide expeditionary entertainment group Tops in Blue is scheduled to take place at Cabrillo High School in Lompoc at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. June 2. This year's show, "The Fly By", will feature performances by singers, dancers and technicians to commemorate the Air Force's 60 years of
  • Senior Airman Carlos Moreno, 30th Space Wing Security Forces Squadron, exchanges vows with his finance, Carolina Garcia of Santa Maria, California via video teleconference here on May 26. The satellite wedding was a first of its kind at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Moreno is currently deployed to Afghanistan supporting the war on terror. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Scott Seyer)

    Vandenberg Airman weds bride via video teleconference

    Being deployed thousands of miles away could not stop one Vandenberg Airman from marrying his Santa Maria sweetheart May 26. Senior Airman Carlos Moreno, 30th Security Forces Squadron, wed Carolina Garcia via teleconference from his deployed location in Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Airman Moreno read about another military couple married by
  • Tech. Sgt. Doyle Stricker (left) and Tech. Sgt. Peter Mongillo (right), both from the 381st Training Group, participate in a series of dodgeball games against youths from the Vandenberg youth center. The "Fantastic Five", a team of five youths from the Vandenberg youth center, competed against the "381st Titans", a team of five Airman from Vandenberg, in a dodgeball competition at the Vandenberg youth center on May 25. The Fantastic Five annihilated the 381st Titans in two out of three games.

    Youth center pulverizes 381st Airmen in dodgeball tourney

  • Vandenberg Airman storms Air Force chess tourney

    Call it a comeback. Call it comeuppance. Call it checkmate. Call it what you will, but Tech. Sgt. Nathaniel Ola defeated Lt. Col. Douglass Taffinder and called it victory at the 2007 Air Force chess tournament held May 11 at Davis Monthan AFB, Ariz. Sergeant Ola, a missile warning duty officer assigned to the 614th Space Operations Squadron, is now
  • Col. Michael Fortney, 30th Space Wing vice commander, and Command Chief Master Sgt. Timothy Gordon, 30th Space Wing command chief, talk with retired Chief Warrant Officer Eugene Moon, at the Lompoc POPS Orchestra concert during the 2007 Memorial Day Military Appreciation Concert at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on May 28. Chief Moon is 99 years old and originates from the Turtle Mountain Reservation in Belcourt, N.D. as part of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kristi Emler)

    Vandenberg rocks with the sounds of the Lompoc POPS

  • Vandenberg Hot Shots crew members (left to right)Marissa Halbeisen, Andrew Klein and James Skiffington survey the Day Fire.

    Drought leaves Vandenberg at risk for severe fire season

    "We burnt an area about 10-feet long by 4-feet wide, and the flames consumed the entire area in less than a minute," said Tim Sandstrom, Vandenberg Fire Department special operations chief. "A grass fire with this much intensity is very uncharacteristic for this time of year. Usually the grass doesn't burn like that until at least August."
  • A safety officer with the 30th Space Wing Safety office detects anomalies, which are targets of a ground investigation investigation set to be conducted within West Housing June 11 to 29. The site to be investigated, which is a requreiment prior to housing privatization, was a possibly used as a Camp Cooke grenade training court in the 1940s. (Courtesy Photo)

    Investigation in housing to minimally impact residents

    An investigation into a possible World War II-era grenade training court within West Housing is set to be conducted June 11 to 29 in order to meet requirements prior to housing privatization. One of the housing privatization requirements is for the Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board to issue a certificate of clearance to the contractor,
  • Statistics predict between 15 and 20 Airmen could die this summer while participating in off-duty activities. One key to prevent that from happening is to use Personal Risk Management, a concept that makes you stop before you do something and think about what you're going to do before you do it. (Graphic Illustration by Senior Airman Stephen Cadette; information provided by Air Force Safety Center)

    Summer safety campaign begins, shows positive trend

    Every summer, off-duty activites and recreation result in the death of more Airmen than roadside bombs, more than enemy fire, more than anything to do with the job.To counter the traditional increase in Air Force mishaps and fatalities that occur during the summer months, the Air Force has run the 101 Critical Days of Summer campaign since the
  • Dr. Ronald M. Sega talks about the future of the new joint Operationally Responsive Space Center facility May 21 at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. Dr. Sega is the Department of Defense's executive agent for space and under secretary of the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo/Todd Berenger)

    DOD stands up joint space office

    The Department of Defense stood up the joint service Operationally Responsive Space Office in a ceremony May 21 at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. The ORS Office will be responsible for integrating joint ORS capabilities and for applying ORS resources to the development, acquisition and demonstration of capabilities to meet specific responsive space
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