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Close Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., left, shakes hands with Gen. John W. Raymond, commander of U.S. Space Command, during a ceremony to recognize the establishment of Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. The denver gazette file Ed Eberhart
Written on the bottom of this print: “28PR / 10 Oct 43 / 24 / Leaving for train at Peterson Fld.” Peterson Field began as Colorado Springs Army Air Base. In December 1942, base officials changed the name to Peterson Army Air Base to honor a fallen airman, 1st Lt. Edward J. Peterson, according to a history posted on Peterson Air Force Base’s website. Peterson was the first Coloradan killed in a flying accident at the airfield. The base was frequently referred to as Peterson Field or simply Pete Field. It was renamed Peterson Air Force Base in 1976.
Share Your browser does not support iframes, but you can use the following link: Link Gen. John Raymond, the chief of space operations, looks back at the first year of operations for the U.S. Space Force and ahead at what is to come for the sixth military service in 2021. Don't miss a single episode. Subscribe to Aviation Week's Check 6 podcast in iTunes,Stitcher, Spotify and Google Play. Please leave us a review. Below is a rush transcript of our interview with General Raymond. Jennifer DiMascio: Hello, and welcome to the Check 6 Podcast. I'm Jen DiMascio, the execu...
Throughout my career I often found myself “captured” in a 15-minute meeting that went on for an hour. The problem wasn’t that the content of the meeting wasn’t important, rather that all that needed to be said and heard was done in the first quarter hour. The extension of the discussion was generally summed up by the expression, “everything that needed to be said was said in the first 15 minutes….it just hadn’t been said by everyone in attendance”. My personal rule was to pass on making non-valued-added comments when it was my turn to speak in an effort to shorten the discussi...
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