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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Vol. 61 No. 7

RETRAINING: Where there is a will, there is a way

By Senior Airman Rose Gudex 21st Space Wing Public Affairs

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Sometimes the call to serve is so great, an individual may accept a career that wasn’t their first or second choice, or even on their wish list at all. In some cases, the Airman ends up excelling and enjoying what they do. Others may want to gain a new skill set.

For Airmen who want to pursue a different career field, there is a chance to retrain into another which may be better suited to them.

There are many options and resources available at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, including a career assistance advisor.

The first thing to know is most career fields have a specific retraining window, said Master Sgt. Matthew Heenan, 21st Force Support Squadron career assistance advisor. He asks prospective retrainees when their date of separation is and tells them to subtract 13 months, which is when their retraining window opens. It closes eight months later.

“It’s a great retention tool for the Air Force so Airmen aren’t getting out after four years,” he said. “Just because an Airman doesn’t do well in one career field, doesn’t make them a bad Airman or mean they can’t continue to serve.”

See Retrain page 7

(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Rose Gudex)

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Staff Sgt. Derrek DeHerrera, 561st Network Operations Squadron vulnerability remediation supervisor, works on a central processing unit while visiting his old office, the 21st Communications Squadron, on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Jan. 27, 2017. DeHerrera went to Korea as client systems, retrained into cyber systems operations, and was stationed back at Peterson.

From idea to reality: Airman transforms lengthy training with innovative approach

By Airman 1st Class Dennis Hoffman 21st Space Wing Public Affairs

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

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Laura Rolfe, 21st Force Support Squadron civilian personnel flight employee relations specialist, trains supervisors on the new Department of Defense Performance Management and Appraisal Program at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Feb. 7, 2017. After a December class, an Air Force Space Command representative commended Rolfe and her team on her DPMAP training, and other space wings have showed interest in disseminating the class to their supervisors.

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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Seventeen hours of an in-house training session? Please for the love of everything good in this world, no — please no.

Five hour computer based training? Save us Chuck Norris.

If it weren’t for the innovative approach Laura Rolfe, 21st Force Support Squadron civilian personnel flight employee relations specialist, took when creating a mandatory training course, those numbers would be a reality. Instead, her training is an action-packed two-and-a-half hours of broken-down, consumable information about the DoD’s new performance management program.

Thanks to Rolfe, the newly implemented Department of Defense Performance Management and Appraisal Program training has been whittled down to a more manageable session. The training is being considered by Air Force Space Command to be the flagship course for supervisors and commanders in the MAJCOM. On Oct. 28, 2009, the authority for the DoD’s National Security Personnel System was repealed by section 1113 of the National Defense Authorization Act of fiscal year 2010.

For the past six years, each respective military branch has been implementing their own appraisal program for their DoD civilians, and now they will be under the same system.

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C ommander’s C orner 21 st S pace Wing

Do you want a discount?

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo.

— Okay, so I got your attention with the word “discount.” The next question is: What am I selling? Answer: Sorry, nothing tangible but since I have your attention, and if you’ll read a bit more, I’ll provide some free and important advice.

Over the years I’ve served in various positions from the flight to headquarters level. In these positions I noticed how detail oriented senior leaders are when it comes to civilian appraisals, military performance reports and written correspondence in general. During my last two and a half years of command I’ve learned to fully understand why your signature, regardless of the document or its level of importance, tells the reader a lot about you, and your credibility as a leader and supervisor.

As a group level executive officer, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, in 2005, I had the opportunity to attend several writing seminars provided by Lt. Gen. William Welser III, 18th Air Force commander. His efforts were to assist us in ensuring documentation sent

By Lt. Col. Mark Reynolds 21st Medical Support Squadron for his signature flowed smoothly, quickly, was clear, concise, consistent and was formatted properly. I was amazed at the amount of time he spent with us, but given the number of documents he signed everyday I’m sure it was time well invested.

It took me several months to fully grasp his writing style and what he was looking for.

Once I translated it into action, I found the flow of performance reports and promotion recommendation forms to be seamless from group, to wing, to Numbered Air Force. It did amount to some pain on my end as I scrutinized and sent back poorly written reports

(only to make more enemies than friends).

Regardless, one of the key fundamentals I learned from my time as an executive officer was every performance report, promotion recommendation, decoration or document you send forth should be your best product and you should not expect it to come back for changes (even though minor tweaks are almost a given). The next reviewer (likely your supervisor) should not be screening it for accuracy, clarity and format.

Flash-forward nine years, upon taking command of the 21st Medical Support Squadron in the summer 2014, I attended the AFSPC Squadron Commander’s course.

One of the hosts during the course was, at the time, Brig. Gen. David J. Buck. He too stressed the importance of quality written correspondence and to never discount your signature. As a commander I review, write and sign countless documents and performance reports and I’ve taken it to heart to go the extra mile ensuring every item is the best it can be. Just like my time as an executive officer; being strict on all written

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correspondence has sometimes made more enemies than friends.

Regardless of an individual’s performance, the same attention to detail and effort is required in writing all performance reports.

When I see a poorly written performance report reflecting below average work I often wonder: Is the problem the employee, or the supervisor? Even if the employee is not meeting standards the report should be free of errors and paint a very clear picture of below average performance.

Next time you write an Officer Performance Report, Enlisted Performance Report, decoration or civilian appraisal, I challenge you to take time to review it again, and again…and maybe again, to ensure the product you’re producing is one you’ll be proud to sign. So when it comes to your signature, you don’t want a discount. Sticking to this philosophy is often time consuming and never easy, but it always pays dividends for you, those you supervise, your organization and ultimately your reputation.

To reach the action line: 21st Space Wing members and its GSUs can call 719-552-2121, DSN 559-2121 or email 21sw.pa.action.line@us.af.mil.

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By Steve Kotecki 21st Space Wing Public Affairs

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Capt. Celeste Oliver, 21st Operations Support Squadron flight commander plans and projects, credits her upbringing with a world view that is slightly different that a majority of her peers and one that she believes she can use to educate children to strive for personal excellence.

Both her parents served in the Army so she often moved around a lot.

“We lived all over the Southern states and overseas in Germany, so I was accustomed to moving,” Oliver said, “I think it gave my siblings and I a head start when it came to certain things, we made friends from lots of different backgrounds a lot easier.”

Her father enlisted in the army but later became a Warrant Officer and flew helicopters. He was one of five black cadets in his flight school.

She knows through things that he’s told her, that being a black pilot in the late 60s and early 70s was different than today. But she feels that both her parents were part of laying the foundation for African-Americans in the military.

She credits the example of her parents as being part of the reason why she chose to join the Air Force. After graduating from Tuskegee University with a degree in chemistry, she decided to become an officer. “Service is definitely in my blood,” Oliver said.

“I think one of the things that I’ve learned from my parents is that you should always be striving towards personal excellence, which really goes well with the Air Force core values,” said Oliver.

Oliver didn’t really think of the struggles that should could face as an African-American female before she joined. “I knew that a lot of progress had been made since my parents first joined, I never really thought about it,” said Oliver.

“So many ‘firsts’ have happened already for the black community in the military, first black pilots, first black astronauts, that there aren’t many left, but that doesn’t mean we should stop striving for them. It’s the examples of all of these ‘firsts’

(U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Kotecki)

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo., — Capt. Celeste Oliver, 21st Operations Support Squadron, flight commander plans and projects, reads a book to the children of the Peterson Air Force Base Child Development Center, Feb. 10, 2017. The book reading was part of the CDC celebration of National African-American History Month. that should guide everyone, not just African-Americans,” Oliver said.

She feels that it’s the excellence of her forebears that is the most deserving of the credit that she gives for her personal goals.

“If I had to have my ‘first’ it would be to start a school that was fully diverse and inclusive from the start,” said Oliver, “if we start teaching tolerance from the very first years of schooling it’s better as a whole.”

When she’s not working Oliver is volunteering her time

with Junior Achievement at Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

“I enjoy teaching and working with kids, we need more educators who are willing to show children that the answer to the problems today isn’t to close doors but to open them,” Oliver summarized about why she likes to teach and volunteer.

She believes that if everyone strived to have their ‘first’ whatever that may be then everyone can reach their personal excellence.

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DLA is located at 1475 Wickersham Blvd., in building 324, and conducts orientations by appointment. The orientations discuss disposition services processes to include turning in excess property, reutilizing government property, web-based tools available, special handling of property and environmental needs. To schedule an orientation training, contact 719.352.4186. For receiving/turn-in questions, contact 719.526.9689. Environmental questions, contact 719.526.0289.

Reutilization/Transfer/Donation RTD, contact 719.466.7002

First Aid is the help offered to a person developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. All participants will be certified in Mental Health First Aid by a qualified instructor.

The next class is scheduled for April 28 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Building 350, room 1203, Peterson AFB. Register at www.mhfaco.rg/ find-class. For further details, please contact Ms. Price at Resilience Operations, 719-556-6768.

Musicians Wanted

The Health and Wellness Center is offering the next session of weight loss classes beginning Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the HAWC (on the second floor of the Fitness Center). Classes will meet on Tuesday evenings for 12 weeks, then biweekly and monthly support sessions.

All DoD ID cardholders ages 18 and up are welcome. For questions or to register, call 719-556-4292 option 3, or email hawc.peterson@ us.a.mil.

The Peterson Chapel Protestant Worship Band (Young at Heart Fellowship Band) is in need of musicians of all walks of life. Guitarist (electric and acoustic), pianist/keys, drummers, bassist, horns, and vocals are all needed to help fill vacant volunteer positions. You don’t have to be at a professional skill level to join the band. Just have a great attitude, desire to worship with others, and aspiration to grow musically. Interested? Please contact Chaplain Boulware at ktlnphpps25@hotmail.com, 760-221-4421 or the Peterson Chapel at 719-556-4442/8225.

Military Saves Week

Airmen Against Drunk Driving

HAWC Weight Loss Classes

Lots of financial activities are scheduled between Feb. 27 and March 3. Airmen can get more information on the Blended Retirement System and other financial topics. For more information or to RSVP, call Peterson AFB Airmen & Family Readiness Center at 719-556-6141.

Peterson AFB Tax Center

Airmen can schedule appointments between Feb. 1 — April 13 for tax assistance. During appointment times, there will also be two kiosks open for individuals to prepare taxes on their own. There will be a trained volunteer available to answer any questions they may have.

The Tax Center appointments will only be servicing E-5 and below, retirees with a taxable income of $64,000 or less, and cannot do taxes involving personal businesses (except childcare). However, kiosks ARE AVAILABLE for ALL ACTIVE DUTY members. For questions, to reserve a kiosk or schedule an appointment, call 719-556-9248.

Survivor Seminar and Grief Camp

The Tragedy Assistance Program (TAPS) will be hosting a Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp in Colorado Springs, March 31 to April 2 at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort. We are in the need of active duty service members to pair with a child during their journey of grief, gaining coping skills in a fun and supportive environment.

For more information and to register as a Mentor, please visit www. taps.org, click events and select the COS Seminar.

Chapel Upgrades

The Peterson AFB Chapel began upgrades Jan. 2. As a result, chapel office and worship services have moved the R.P. Lee Youth Center.

The upgrades to the chapel are expected to take several months. For information, call 719-556-4442.

Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid training is for everybody: retirees, active duty, family members and civilian employees. Mental Health

A2D2 is a volunteer organization designed to keep the Colorado Springs community safe and prevent DUIs by providing free rides home to anyone who lives or works on Peterson Air Force Base, Schriever or Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station. Hours of operation are 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, and nights before holidays and Air Force Space Command family days. Call 719-552-2233 (AADD) for a ride during those hours. For information, email airmenagainst.dd@us.af.mil

Ultimate Frisbee Club

The Peterson Ultimate Frisbee Club plays games regularly, usually twice a week during lunch, and is always looking for more participants. In addition to the fun, Ultimate is an excellent cardio workout.

Games easily integrate all skill and fitness levels, so come check it out. For details, contact Tom Eklund at 556-3726 or thomas.eklund. ctr@us.af.mil.

Peterson Community Dinner

The Peterson Chapel hosts the Peterson Community Dinner from 5 — 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month. For information contact the chapel at 556-4442.

Retiree Luncheon

The Military Retiree Activities office holds its monthly council meeting on the second Thursday of each month at 2:30 p.m. in Building 350, Room 1206. The guest speaker for March 9 will be Beverley with her Big Dog named “Zuzu.”

Society of Military Widows meeting

The Society of Military Widows is open to all military widows of any branch of military service, regardless of the spouses’ rank. The Pikes Peak Chapter 15 of the Society of Military Widows meets the last Wednesday of the month at 10:30 a.m. at the Peterson Air Force Base Club. Call 597-0492 or 591-9523 for information.

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Reserve aerial port Airmen deploy to Southwest Asia

(U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Amber Sorsek)

Members of the 39th Aerial Port Squadron pose with their guideon before running the annual Port Dawg Memorial Run, May 14, 2016 here. More than 30 of the squadron members are deployed, or getting ready to deploy, to Southwest Asia for six months.

By Daniel Butterfield 302nd Airlift Wing Public Affairs

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Members of the 302nd Airlift Wing’s 39th Aerial Port Squadron began departing Colorado Springs, Colo., for Southwest Asia in December and will continue leaving in small groups through March of 2017 in support of Operations Freedom’s Sentinel and Inherent Resolve.

The Air Force Reservists will provide support to ramp and cargo operations, passenger services, load planning, special handling and manning the air terminal operations center at various locations throughout Southwest Asia while deployed. Two Reserve officers from the squadron are also deploying where they will act as logistics readiness officers, handling anything from installation deployment operations

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“Within aerial port we do have [multiple] specialties and we train our personnel so that they can be put into most positions,” said Chris Meyer, 39th APS unit deployment manager.

This deployment will be the first one for about 30-percent of the Airmen.

“They jumped at the chance,” said Meyer. “But we rely heavily on those folks who have been there before, to give these guys guidance, and make sure they are good to go.

They’ve been there. They’ve seen it. They know what to expect and can relay that information.”

And while they are gone they have the support of the remainder of the squadron if they need it.

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The deployed work schedule for the aerial port Airmen is expected to be 12-hour days, six days a week and the 39th Aerial Port Squadron is ready for the challenge.

“I have no doubt our Airmen will perform stellar while deployed. I am sure we will have a couple hiccups, that is to be expected whether Active Duty or Reserve when deploying.

The 39th APS is comprised of some of the sharpest folks in the wing. Our Airmen are successful both in the uniform and out of the uniform and bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to any table they come to,” said Johnson.

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KNIGHT CLUB FITNESS 21st SW Weekly Fitness Challenge 21st Space Wing Public Affairs

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — The Knights of the 21st Space Wing sometimes find themselves too busy to get away from their desk throughout the day. To get the blood flowing, take a few minutes every day around 10 a.m. and at 2 p.m. to step back and regain some focus. For civilians and others not in utility uniforms, grab a mat and you can participate, too!

Morning — 1x3 Pushups • Find out what your maximum amount of pushups is for one minute. Take that number and divide it by three.

(Say your max is 45, then your one-third would be 15) • If this is your second week doing 1x3’s, add one pushup to each set.

• Start a time for one minute and knock out the first third of your max as fast as you can. Rest for the remainder of the minute.

• Repeat two more times so you complete your whole maximum in three total minutes.

Afternoon — Mini Circuits • Complete one minute of each exercise, one exercise each for upper body, core and lower body

Tricep Dips • Position your hands shoulder-width apart on a stable bench or chair with your legs extended in front of you and arms straightened • Slowly bend your elbows to lower your body toward the floor until elbows are about 90 degrees.

• Once you reach the bottom of the movement, press into the bench and straighten your elbows and return to the starting position.

That is one rep.

Russian Twists • Begin sitting on the floor with hips and knees bent 90 degrees.

• Hold your back straight and at about a 45 degree angle to the floor. Twist torso as far as you can to the left, and then reverse the motion and twist as far as you can to the right. That is one rep.

• For more advanced Knights, add some sort of weight such as a medicine ball, dumbbell or the dusty dictionary from the shelf.

Bodyweight Squats • Begin with feet slightly wider than hip-width apart, toes slightly turned out and arms at your side • Bend knees slowly, pushing your hips back and down behind you as if you’re sitting in a chair.

As you lower your body, raise your arms up and in front of you.

• Lower body until thighs are parallel to the floor. Ensure knees are over your toes and not turning inward.

• Push through your heels and return to the starting position. That is one rep.

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There is a caveat which allows a retraining window to open once an Airman reaches the halfway point of their enlistment, if they are retraining into a critically manned career field, Heenan said. If that is the case, the Airman’s window does not close until the date it would have closed if they were retraining into a normally-manned career.

To view a list of what career fields are critically manned and other useful information, Airmen can go to myPers on the Air Force portal and click on “Retraining” on the left side column. A link to the “Retraining Shortfall Requirements List” under the “Tools” header provides a list of Air Force Specialty Codes with quotas often difficult to fill or specific retraining challenges.

Just because a career field is on the shortfall list, does not mean positions are available, Heenan said. Airmen need to look through the “Online Retraining Advisory” to get an accurate representation of what is available, which AFSCs are balancing manning and which ones are hurting for talent. The list is updated in real time.

For Staff Sgt. Derrek DeHerrera, then with the 21st Communications Squadron at Peterson and now with the 561st Network Operations Squadron here, it wasn’t about getting out of a career he wasn’t proficient at or enjoyed, but rather to expand his skill set. When he received an assignment to Kunsan Air Base, Korea, DeHerrera submitted a package to retrain into cyber systems operations.

“I wanted to expand my knowledge as far as communications is concerned,” he said. “A lot of what I had experience in was end-user and I wanted to experience more of what was in the back shops.”

DeHerrera worked with a career assistance advisor while in Korea, who was excited to see someone able to retrain into a career he wanted and use the program as it was intended.

DeHerrera said it was a learning process and he wants to pass on any information he can to those who come after him.

“If you have a certain history or interest within the career field you want to go into, express that in the comments (of your package),” he said. “If you have questions, go to the career assistance advisor or education office because it will help a lot to get information.”

Back at Peterson AFB, Heenan works with Airmen who want to retrain on a daily basis and while he enjoys it, he said he needed to find a way to better accommodate the need.

(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Rose Gudex)

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Staff Sgt. Derrek DeHerrera, 561st Network Operations Squadron vulnerability remediation supervisor, works to image laptops with his old office, the 21st Communications Squadron, at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Jan. 27, 2017. DeHerrera retrained from client systems to cyber systems operations, a similar career field, to broaden his knowledge and skill set.

“At the end of a wing commander’s call, I put a plug in and said the retraining quota list came out and there were 1,673 jobs available — I told them to come see me,” he said. “At the end of the brief, I walked back across the street to my office and had seven Airmen waiting to see me.”

As a career assistance advisor, Heenan said he will never turn anyone away, however there had to be a better way to help Airmen more efficiently. He designed and implemented a retraining tutorial as a professional development course in fall 2016. It is designed not only for Airmen, but also supvisors, other NCOs, senior NCOs and even officers.

“I want them to come take the class so they can educate the personnel back in their sections,” he said.

The biggest advice Heenan has for Airmen interested in retraining is to reach out for advice, from him, from other

people who have retrained and people in the career field that interests them. The impact Heenan and others like him have on Airmen is what drives him every day.

“My primary AFSC is security forces. Over there I only got to mentor and affect security forces personnel,” he said.

“When I got over here, I affect every single career field the Air Force has — every single one.”

If a certain career field isn’t working out for an individual, the Air Force wants to help those Airmen continue to serve in a path that is more fitted to the individual. Retraining allows that to happen and also helps the Air Force balance the enlisted career fields.

For more information about retraining, call the Peterson career assistance advisor at 719-556-9226 or visit the myPERS website.

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Snap, crackle, pop:

From mechanical to modern, Grimes finds himself back at Clear

By Dave Smith 21st Space Wing Public Affairs staff writer

CLEAR AIR FORCE STATION, Alaska — Lt. Col. Keith Grimes, operations officer for the 213th Space Warning Squadron of the Alaska Air National Guard, remembers his time as a crew commander for the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radar in 1994-95 at Clear Air Force Station, Alaska.

Grimes served as an active duty airman when the BMEWS was scanning the skies. He left Clear AFS, switched into the Air Force Reserves and obtained a law degree before his path led back to Alaska to work on a post-BMEWS installation.

The radar environment was vastly different about two decades ago when then-Capt. Grimes prowled the site, leading his team in monitoring the skies for threats. The BMEWS radar had many more mechanical components, for example.

“The environment was much more energized and alive,” Grimes said. “You could actually hear the system working.”

Operators could hear the antenna move while it tracked objects, he said. Audible popping noises were a typical part of the background noise and people were hustling around carrying out assignments.

“It looked like a battleship structure,” said Grimes. “It was very 1950s, very metallic.”

The BMEWS radar was decommissioned in 2002 and replaced with a Solid-State Phased Array Radar System. The BMEWS radar was demolished in October 2016.

The new system stands in stark contrast to its old cousin.

Grimes said it is very clean and efficient by comparison. It’s more akin to the deck of the mythical Starship Enterprise than a battle ship.

“If you heard popping noises now you would be worried,” he said. “It’s more modern, like an office.”

Grimes’ road led him out of active duty and into the Air Force Reserves and higher education. He wanted to accomplish two things, get a law degree and stay in the Air Force.

Going into the Reserves made that possible.

“The idea was to do space law in Colorado Springs,” said Grimes. “But that changed and I went into patent law.”

He put his science background from the Air Force and

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CLEAR AIR FORCE STATION, Alaska — Lt. Col. Keith Grimes, 213th Space Warning Squadron operations officer of the Alaska Air National Guard, left, shows Adm. Cecil Haney, commander of Strategic Command, around Clear Air Force Station, Alaska, Oct. 14, 2015. Grimes returned to the station to serve in an administrative role. He was stationed at Clear AFS early in his career and worked on the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radar. his law degree to use working for a large defense contractor for a time.

Eventually, Grimes was made aware of an opening back at Clear AFS and applied. He became an active guard member and assumed his duties in early 2005 after roughly a decade away.

“The old radar was inoperable when I got back so I didn’t have a chance to go back (and visit),” said Grimes.

There were other changes on Clear AFS as well, but they were good changes. Those were interesting times, he said, with the 213th SWS assuming control of the radar operations from 13th SWS which was a unique situation at the time.

But all went well and life at Clear progressed.

“I was happy to be back,” Grimes said. “I saw a lot of people from the old days. It was more like a homecoming. I like the community atmosphere, it has a small-townish feel.”

Since 2010 Clear AFS continues to experience sustained upgrades and growth at an exponential rate, Grimes said.

It has reached a point where infrastructure issues can be addressed at a higher priority and other military programs have been drawn to the location.

“We are adjusting to a number of changes,” he said. “It’s no longer the sleepy installation it used to be. It’s hustling and bustling.”

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

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Laura Rolfe, 21st Force Support Squadron civilian personnel flight employee relations specialist, trains supervisors on the new Department of Defense Performance Management and Appraisal Program at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Feb. 7, 2017. Rolfe took a binder packed with hundreds of information-filled pages and consolidated the meat of the training into a two-and-a-half hour, time-efficient instruction.

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Rolfe said her office was anticipating the new Performance Management Program coming.

A representative from the Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Services office came to train her office and civilian personnelists from each space command base. After a three day training and a meeting with her office staff, Rolfe said she and her team agreed she would take the reins on ensuring civilians and military supervisors at Peterson AFB were properly trained on the new program.

Rolfe willingly took a giant binder packed with hundreds of information-filled pages and consolidated the meat of the training into a two-and-a-half hour, time-efficient course.

“I really do love training,” Rolfe said. “I enjoy taking material and condensing it so it’s simple for people to understand. I had a bunch of ideas for this training, so I came into work with the normal constraints of my eight hour day and read through any and all material I could find. As I processed all this information, I realized that this is not as complicated as it initially seemed.”

After immediate success with this class, and rave reviews in November 2016, Air Force Space Command contacted Rolfe and her team with concerns that her new training would not encompass all the necessary material covered in the five hour CBT.

“A representative from AFSPC/A1 came and sat in on my training in December,” said Rolfe.

“They were concerned with allowing our inhouse course to fulfill the mandatory DPMAP training requirement, as it was half the time of the CBT. After attending the Peterson AFB course however, the MAJCOM representative stated she got way more out of the Peterson AFB in-house training than she did from the CBT.” From that December class, AFSPC has commended Rolfe and her team on the DPMAP training, and other AFSPC Bases have showed interest in disseminating the class to their supervisors.

“We are about efficiency,” said Rolfe. “We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, so if my training can help the MAJCOM and the Air Force understand this new program and reduce unnecessary hours of training, we are on board — It’s what we do here at Peterson.”

Officially kicking off April 1, 2017, a majority of DoD civilians will fall under the same management and appraisal system, and Rolfe will have directly educated between 700-800 DoD supervisors, including generals, on DPMAP. To avoid the 5-hour CBT, schedule a slot in Rolfe’s DPMAP training. Visit https://myetms.wpafb.af.mil click the “Self-Registration” tab. Proceed to click “View All Classes” then “DPMAP-CLASS” to enroll. Have your training manager’s information handy or enter your supervisor’s information in that block if your trainings manager’s information is not readily available.

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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Laura Rolfe, 21st Force Support Squadron civilian personnel flight employee relations specialist, condensed a 17-hour Department of Defense Performance Management and Appraisal Program training into a flagship course offered at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Feb. 7, 2017. Rolfe will directly educate between 700-800 DoD supervisors, including generals, on the DPMAP training by March 31.

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Space aggressors jam AF, allies’ systems

By Maj. Jessica D’Ambrosio 926th Wing Public Affairs

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) — The 26th Space Aggressor Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base is always gearing up for the next exercise in replicating enemy action against space-based and space-enabled systems.

Teams of adversary subject matter experts regularly employ jamming techniques to train Air Force, joint and coalition personnel how to recognize, mitigate, counter and defeat threats.

“Our mission is to train others,” said Senior Master Sgt. Benjamin Millspaugh, the 26th SAS superintendent. “Currently, Schriever is the only place in the Department of Defense that provides this type of instruction and training that we use to help get our military partners up to speed.”

The squadron acts like a consultant, teaching its clients how to navigate a world full of noise. The world being space,

and the noise being rivals that want to prevent their communications or steal information.

Acting as the “bad guy,” space aggressors deny operators use of their capabilities like GPS and satellite communication (SATCOM) in order to train warfighters how to operate in environments where critical systems are interfered with or completely negated.

To do this, space aggressors replicate adversary systems to provide a threat representative affect the United States’ joint and allied forces. They use a variety of hardware in creative ways to ensure the antennas, amplifiers, and additional hardware are used in the same way an adversary would employ them.

Additionally, they build waveforms that match GPS signals coming down to jam and knock receivers off the GPS signal. They perform various operational configurations and set up multiple antenna sites just like an adversary.

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Tech. Sgt. Matthew Guterriz (right), a threat analyst, and Tech. Sgt. Kevin Broyles, a radio frequency transmissions technician, set up satellite communication equipment for a training exercise. SATCOM is used to jam communications, replicating a contested environment for operators. SATCOM can be conducted from Schriever Air Force Base, Colo., for exercises happening at Nellis AFB, Nev. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Jessica D’Ambrosio)

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Clearing the backlog: Blackjack engineers tackle “Work Week”

By Senior Airman Rose Gudex 21st Space Wing Public Affairs

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — The 21st Civil Engineer Squadron operations flight at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, dedicated time Jan. 9-13 specifically for tackling the backlogged corrective work orders they weren’t able to get to in 2016. The team minimized appointments and meetings, and cancelled physical training formations to dedicate as much time as possible to achieving their goal.

The 21st CES has a priority system in place to ensure appropriate response to incoming work orders, which is based mostly on manning, but also on funding and infrastructure requirements, said Capt. Matthew Akaydin, 21st Civil Engineer Squadron chief of engineering operations.

During the “work week,” they closed out 219 work orders, an 89 percent increase from the average week.

When 21st CES receives work orders, they are cataloged based on priority. Emergencies always take precedent and are a tier one priority. Tier two priorities consist of preventative maintenance, followed by corrective maintenance in tier three.

“For that one week, all we did was emergencies and then tried to tackle as many of the backlogged work orders as we could,” he said. “The idea was to knock out as many things as we could.”

Every month, regularly scheduled preventative maintenance is done, in addition to the emergencies that seem to continually keep the Blackjack Engineers on their toes.

After that, the other priorities are pushed to the back. This isn’t because those work orders go “into a queue of one to 1,000,” but rather get placed into the priority system with the higher priority jobs completed first, he said.

To find a way around continually pushing lower priority work orders to the back burner, Akaydin said they came up with the “21st CES Work Week.” The operations flight cancelled as many meeting and appointments as they could, doubled up on maintenance work in weeks leading up to the “work week” and focused soley on tier three, corrective maintenance issues.

Normally, preventative maintenance is completed first.

As an example, he said the operations flight would change the filter on an HVAC system before they would fix the entire system if it wasn’t working. He used the analogy of changing the oil on a car before changing a flat tire.

“It sounds a little odd at first, but when you peel back the layers of the onion, you see that what’s happened over the years is we have been so busy changing tires, in this analogy, that we never actually changed the oil,” Akaydin explained. “(As a result), the cars actually seize up and creates bigger problems down the road.”

In a typical week during 2016, 21st CES receives an average of 116 work orders and only closes out 105. That creates a backlog, which currently is about 900. During the “work week,” they closed out 219 work orders, an 89 percent increase from the average week. Due to a wind storm taking place in the same week, which caused plenty of new emergencies, they also opened 222 additional work orders.

About 100 Blackjack Engineers tackled as much as they could, but weren’t able to make as big of a dent in the backlog due to subsequent tier one priorities that flowed in from the wind storm. However, Akaydin said they were able to tackle some work orders they normally wouldn’t have been able to complete.

This was the first time 21st CES attempted a “work week,” he said. Based on the results, they may look to continue it on possibly a quarterly basis. Hopefully next time Mother Nature cooperates and allows them to tackle even more tier three jobs.

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Airman 1st Class Arron Vens, 21st Civil Engineer Squadron pavements and equipment journeyman, cuts a portion of a hangar roof into a more manageable size for removal on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Jan. 12, 2017. The 21st CES operations flight took a week in January to catch up on older, low priority work orders, in addition to new high priorities from the recent wind storm.

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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Airmen from the 21st Civil Engineer Squadron water and fuels systems maintenance section remove an old hot water system in preparation for a new one at the Child Development Center on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Jan. 10, 2017. The new installed system will included an additional water heater and bypass line, making it possible to have a heater go down and still provide hot water to the building, thus eliminating a single point of failure.

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — The 21st Civil Engineer Squadron operations flight uses a sky lift to fix portions of a roof on a hangar along the flightline on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Jan. 12, 2017. The 21st CES Blackjack Engineers took a week in January to put extra effort toward tackling the backlog of corrective work orders.

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Staff Sgt. Brian Foxworth, 21st Civil Engineer Squadron Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration craftsman, repairs a unit heater in the 21st CES compound’s mechanical room on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Jan. 11, 2017. The operations flight from 21st CES cancelled meetings and fitness training for a week in an attempt to get the backlog of work orders under control.

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Staff Sgt. Christopher Stevenson, 21st Civil Engineer Squadron Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration craftsman, troubleshoots electrical wiring for a chiller at Air Force Life Cycle Material Command on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Jan. 12, 2017. The operations flight from 21st CES cancelled meetings and fitness training for a week to attempt to get the backlog of work orders under control.

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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Staff Sgt. Thomas Meyer, 21st Civil Engineer Squadron pavements and equipment craftsman, removes an old, unnecessary section of fencing at the 21st CES compound on Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Jan. 13, 2017. The 21st CES Blackjack Engineers took a week in January to put extra effort toward tackling the backlog of corrective work orders.

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New contract integral to sustaining worldwide missile warning and defense By 1st Lt. Roz Chromy and 2nd Lt. Bradley Landry Sustainment and Modification of Radar Sensors Team

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Strategic Warning and Surveillance Systems Division recently released a request for proposal for the Sustainment and Modification of Radar Sensors, or SMORS, contract.

The SMORS contract will replace the System Engineering and Sustainment Integrator, or SENSOR, contract. It will provide depot-level sustainment services and modification projects for the missile warning/missile defense and space situational awareness Ballistic Missile Early Warning Systems (BMEWS), PAVE Phased Array Warning Systems (PAVE PAWS) and Perimeter Acquisition Radar Characterization System (PARCS) ground-based radar sensor systems and associated support systems under Air Force Space Command and Missile Defense Agency responsibility. In October 2016, MDA initiated the demolition of the original BMEWS radar

at Clear Air Force Station, Alaska.

“The focus of the SMORS contract is to provide effective sustainment and maintain required system availability for these mission-critical radars,” said Col. Todd Wiest, Strategic Warning and Surveillance Systems Division senior materiel leader. “Effective and assured operation of this worldwide network of ground-based radars is essential to the Air Force’s missile warning and missile defense mission.”

The BMEWS/PAVE PAWS, and PARCS radars are the assets which provide that mission-critical missile warning and missile defense mission. The BMEWS sites are located at Thule Air Base, Greenland; Clear AFS; and Royal Air Force Fylingdales, United Kingdom. The active PAVE PAWS radars are located at Beale Air Force Base, California; and Cape Cod Air Force Station, Massachusetts. The PAVE PAWS radar at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is in caretaker status.

Work will also be for the PARCS radar located at Cavalier Air Force Station, North Dakota.

The BMEWS/PAVE PAWS radar sensors in the Early Warning Radar configuration at Clear AFS and at Cape Cod AFS, and the PARCS radar sensor contribute missile

warning data to the ground-based radars portion of the Integrated Tactical Warning/ Attack Assessment system.

These radar sensors also perform a space surveillance mission and are therefore considered “collateral” Space Surveillance Network sensors. The BMEWS/PAVE PAWS radar sensors in the upgraded EWR configuration at Beale AFB, RAF Fylingdales and Thule AB also support the missile defense network.

The contract will be a single award, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract. In addition to on-going depot-level sustainment, it will provide High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse Hardness Maintenance and Hardness Surveillance, modifications for the BMEWS/PAVE PAWS and PARCS radars and operations maintenance and support services for the non-mission system development and test environment systems associated with the operational radars. The contract ceiling is $866 million and is expected to award in December of 2017.

“We are very pleased to release this request for proposal for the SMORS effort and excited to work with industry in the years ahead,” said Wiest.

Air Force begins migrating email to cloud-based system in 2017

By Capt. Shawn Walleck Air Force Space Command Public Affairs

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The dreaded “your mailbox is full” message is soon to be a thing of the past under a recent directive by the Air Force Space Command to realign resources to more critical priorities and outsourcing services like email.

The Air Force Lifecycle Management Center and Air Force Network Integration Center partnered with industry under the Collaboration Pathfinder project to test the Air Force’s ability to outsource collaborative tools such as email, Lync, and SharePoint to cloud-based services.

Email is the first of the Microsoft Office 365 services the Air Force is migrating to a cloud-based service. An initial test began with AFNIC last year and the team recently completed migrating the first full Air Force base “The goal of the project is to increase capability and flexibility for our users,” said Markus Rogers, executive director at AFNIC.

One key benefit of moving email service to the cloud is an exponential increase of individual storage capacity. More than 200 AFNIC users who previously had 100Mb mailboxes in the AF Network now have 100 GB capacity, plus an additional 100 GB of archive storage, in the cloud. As a result, they will now be able to hold two million normal emails in their mailbox and another two million in their archive.

“For the typical AF user, that’s an increase of 2,000 times the current capacity, which is like going from a 2-drawer filing cabinet to an entire warehouse,” said Rogers.

Feedback thus far has been positive during testing and initial migration.

“I’m extremely pleased with the migration so far. I have used only 8 GB of my mailbox so it is nowhere near full, which is unlike my former account. The search function seems more robust and finds emails more accurately and I’m able to access everything from home, which has been extremely beneficial,” said Robert Poulin, a test user for AFSPC. “We’ve completed the ‘first-to-test’ phase of agencies, and have started migrating 10

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other CONUS Air Force bases: Holloman, Malmstrom, Goodfellow, Offutt, Whiteman, Fairchild, Patrick, Davis-Monthan, Shaw, and Hanscom,” said Rogers.

Holloman AFB became the first installation to fully migrate on Jan. 27, 2017. When all those installations come online, that will equate to approximately 68,000 registered users.

No major system migration is without its share of challenges in the initial phase, which is why gathering information and applying lessons learned from users throughout the migration process will help lessen conversion issues as other bases are brought online.

To better understand the migration, AFNIC tested the system first.

“With an effort of this magnitude, we thought it best to test the waters and identify any major pitfalls here at AFNIC before affecting the broader base of our users,” said Markus Rogers.

This experience has helped to plan the implementation of other cloud collaboration tools such as SharePoint, One Drive, and Skype for Business (which replaces Lync).

“We’re taking a deliberate-phased approach and don’t plan on accelerating migrations until we are confident that the key capabilities and tools required for a positive user experience are fully operational in the cloud environment,” said Lt. Col. Randy Flores, AFLCMC Program Management Office program manager.

In addition to resolving conversion issues, testing the system also revealed some unanticipated solutions within AFNET. “We’ve identified and fixed systemic problems on the AFNET and are pioneering audits and remediation processes to improve service in the future, which is a great example of why change is good,” said Dennis Polansky, AFNIC Service Transition Project Manager.

The new cloud-based system will offer greater storage options, along with support for mobile devices and thin clients, without compromising strict security requirements while adding redundant power, facilities, and components with a 99.9% uptime reliability rating.

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Aggressors From page 11 Millspaugh compared the ability to discern and understand another’s data to talking louder than others. If you want to be heard, you make your voice stand out. The space aggressors stand out by projecting more power or getting closer to the target in order to transmit their signal and block others.

If you want to be heard, you make your voice stand out.

To successfully interfere: frequency, access and power are needed. SATCOM has many frequencies and can access a signal from a far distance. The traditional SATCOM satellite can see one-third of the Earth, from 22,300 miles away in its geosynchronous orbit. However, GPS is in a completely different orbit and uses various frequencies to update the position, navigation and timing for systems all over the world.

The space aggressors target two frequencies — L1 and L2 — from the ground. So they need to be local in order to accurately affect the training audiences’ receivers, otherwise it will affect all signals within range and interfere with entities not participating in the exercise.

The team spends 200 days a year training others how to combat this interference.

Setting up an exercise can take up to six months with all of the internal checks and

(U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Jessica D’Ambrosio)

Senior Airman Richard Sorensen (left) and Maj. Aaron Milledge, both GPS denial operators, set up high-power GPS electromagnetic interference training equipment.

The hardware suite consists of a spectrum analyzer that verifies the antenna and power are operating within safe parameters, a modem that builds a signal, and a high-powered amplifier. third-party verifications to ensure they’re only affecting signals they’re authorized to.

Notifications are also made to the Federal Aviation Administration, commercial airlines, and the maritime community a few weeks out to make them aware of the exercises.

“The United States Air Force Warfare Center decides which exercises to conduct, and the squadron maintains operational

flexibility to cater to our client’s needs,” Millspaugh said. “Then we determine the level and type of interference based on the client’s capabilities; it’s like referring to a play book.”

One of the exercises the squadron supports is Red Flag, which takes place at Nellis AFB, Nevada, multiple times per year. Their SATCOM is run from Schriever AFB, but the GPS function happens at Nellis AFB since

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The 26th SAS has been training troops since World War I. It is the oldest squadron in the Air Force Reserve and one of the oldest in the Air Force. It was inactivated after the Cold War, but was reactivated at Schriever AFB in 2003 when the Air Force recognized a need for aggressors. The unit was realigned under Nellis AFB’s 926th Operations Group in 2008.

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Proper dental care can prevent disease

By J.D. Levite Air Force Surgeon General Public Affairs

More than fighting bad breath or preventing gingivitis, research shows that dental health also contributes to the overall wellbeing of Airmen.

Good dental care includes an annual checkup, brushing and flossing, drinking fluoridated water and making sure everyone in the family is covered by dental insurance.

The American Dental Association has supported community water fluoridation since the policy was first introduced in 1950, and they continue to advocate for it across the country.

“Fluoride is integrated into kids’ enamel as they develop new teeth,” said Lt. Col. Aida Soliván-Ortiz, a dental public health specialist for the 59th Dental Group, and consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General. “We can provide coverage for them as they grow up and are in different stages of development.

For adults, it gives additional defense against cavities as well.”

She added fluoride in the water is an important public health intervention that’s cheap and should be available to everyone. In

(U.S. Air Force graphic)

2014, 74.4% of the U.S. population on public water systems had access to fluoridated water, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has a site you can visit to check if your water has fluoride or not, and there’s a site to see if the bottled water you drink does as well.

Soliván-Ortiz said there’s still a strong emphasis on daily flossing from the ADA as well. She said there’s misinformation circulating around that took the USDA’s updated guidelines out of context, but flossing is still an important part of an adequate oral hygiene routine.

She said, “If you leave the plaque and debris lodged between your teeth it could lead to gingival inflammation and, eventually, into periodontal disease. Removing that plaque daily is a defense against disease.”

Brushing can also prevent disease by removing plague that bacteria feed off of.

Soliván-Ortiz said the ADA’s recommendation for brushing is “Two minutes, twice a day.”

“Prevention is the key word. We’re preventing disease,” she said. “Let’s live longer with the teeth we’re given and avoid having any unnecessary restorative treatments. When you prevent dental disease, you’re also preventing the costs associated with restorations, surgery, extraction, and implants. The longer people can retain their own teeth, the better.”

The last thing she mentioned is TRICARE Dental, which is fairly inexpensive and available for the dependents of active duty members even though many aren’t enrolled.

Soliván-Ortiz recommends all Airmen and their families schedule an appointment with a dental provider so they can get important information specific to their own personal dental history. “Get an informed, evidencebased opinion from dental providers.”

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2017 SUBARU OUTBACK 2.5i 36 month lease, $189 per month plus tax, $1200 due at signing plus tax.

10,000 miles per year with approved credit. No security deposit required.

MSRP $26,870 Model code HDB Package 01 Stock #173361

2017 SUBARU FORESTER 2.5i 36 month lease, $189 per month plus tax, $1200 due at signing plus tax.

10,000 miles per year with approved credit. No security deposit required.

MSRP $23,632 Model code HFA Package 01 Stock #173707

2017 SUBARU LEGACY 2.5i 36 month lease, $179 per month plus tax, $1200 due at signing plus tax.

10,000 miles per year with approved credit. No security deposit required.

MSRP $23,876 Model code HAB Package 02 Stock #172957

2017 SUBARU IMPREZA 2.0i 36 month lease, $159 per month plus tax, $1400 due at signing plus tax.

10,000 miles per year with approved credit. No security deposit required.

MSRP $19,377 Model code HJA Package 01 Stock #173826

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