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  • Vandenberg NCO serves homeland while serving country

    When three Polish senators came to Vandenberg they needed a translator. They wouldn't have been able to discuss Vandenberg's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile program with 30th Space Wing leadership without the help of Staff Sgt. Radoslaw Ciesielski. Sergeant Ciesielski, a heating, ventilation and

  • Polish senators visit Vandenberg

    Officials at Vandenberg hosted three senators of the Republic of Poland on June 29 as part of the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program. Senators Franciszek Adamczyk, Czeslaw Rybka and Ludwik Zalewsk began their 10-day visit to the Untied States in Washington D.C. and

  • 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

  • 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

  • AFSPC announces Space, Missile Operations awards

    Please join me in congratulating the following 2006 Air Force Space Command Space & Missile Operations Award Winners: General Donald J. Kutyna Award for Best Spacelift Squadron: 2nd Range Operations SquadronChief Master Sergeant Edward W. Weaver Award for Best Operations Support Squadron with a

  • Thermal vacuum test for meteorological satellite succeeds

    The next Defense Meteorological Systems Group satellite F-18, scheduled for launch in April, 2008, has successfully passed a significant milestone this month when it completed a 10-day system level thermal vacuum test. This is the second DMSP satellite to be processed at the Lockheed Sunnyvale

  • Space officers' development symposium to run in May

    The second annual Air Force Space Command Space Professional Development Symposium is scheduled to take place here May 23-24. The event is for company grade officers and selected officers of all ranks and includes informational briefings on the command's wide array of missions and roles. 1st Lt.

  • AFA recognizes local military, civilians at luncheon

    More than 400 people packed Vandenberg's Pacific Coast Club March 29 for the 23rd annual awards luncheon held by the Air Force Association's Robert H. Goddard Chapter No. 266. Goddard Chapter recognized individuals, units, and community partners were recognized for their outstanding contributions to

  • Scowcroft honors top ICBM, Space and C3I Airmen

    Top performers in the intercontinental ballistic missile and space and communications, command, control and intelligence career fields were recently honored at the 18th annual Air Force Association Brent Scowcroft Awards banquet, hosted by the northern Utah chapter of the AFA. Approximately 500

  • Vandenberg launches Minuteman II

    An unarmed Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile testing Missile Defense Agency sensors was launched from North Vandenberg at 9:27 p.m. March 20. Col. Teresa Djuric, 30th Space Wing vice commander, was the spacelift commander. Representing MDA locally was Richard Vernetti acting as target

 

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