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CMSAF Visits Schriever COLORADO SPRINGS MILITARY NEWSPAPER GROUP Thursday, March 12, 2015 www.csmng.com Vol. 9 No. 10 Did you know? CMSAF visits Schriever Did you know Schriever Air Force Base is hosting TEDxSchriever in May? The TEDxSchriever team will be hosting a Get To Know TED lunch 11 a.m. to noon Friday at the Building 300 auditorium. The team will be in the auditorium to give information about attending TEDxSchriever, announce the speakers and pho- tography contest. Everyone is invited to attend. Base Briefs Wing holds Chief Cole’s retirement ceremony The 50th Space Wing is hosting the retirement ceremony of Chief Master Sgt. Lavon Coles, the wing’s com- mand chief. The event is 3 p.m. May 1 at the Peterson Air Force Base club. For more information or to RSVP, visit https://einvitations.afit.edu/inv/anim. cfm?i=232338&k=0062400A785F or U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Nicholas B. Ontiveros contact Master Sgt. Teri Freeman. Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody speaks with Airmen during an all-call Friday at Schriever Air Force Base, Colo. Cody also answered their questions and recognized their contributions to the U.S. Air Force during his two-day visit. Pikes Peak Top 3 taking scholarship applications The Pikes Peak Top 3 is currently taking applications for the first quar- ter Enlisted Education Grant Incentive Former Airman sentenced to 18 years in drunken-driving death tells story Program. Please encourage any worthy airman basics to technical sergeants For his first duty station, Wyatt was as- who are enrolled in college courses this signed to the 673rd Communications quarter to apply. Recipients will receive Squadron at Elmendorf where he took to a $100 check. Deadline is March 31. his job immediately. For more information, contact Master One senior NCO said Wyatt appeared to Sgt. Amanda Mullins or Master Sgt. be on the fast track to achieve his dream of being a chief master sergeant. But that dream Joshuwa Steele. disappeared when Wyatt made the choice to More Briefs page 14 drive drunk — killing Citari Townes-Sweatt, a 20-year-old woman. Sign up for weekly Schriever On June 29, 2013, former Airman 1st Class announcements, news and more. Lane Wyatt and a couple of his friends de- Visit www.schriever.af.mil and click cided to hang out at the home of another “Public Affairs” under featured links. friend who’d just returned from a deploy- ment. They later decided to go out for the evening, so they dropped off their cars and Public Affairs called a taxi. “We just had fun,” he said. “It was a guy’s night out. I left my car; I didn’t plan on driv- ing...The plan was to go home and crash out.” Inside At some point later, the group decided to SAP’s project gets attention .......... 2 go dancing at a bar in the area where they ran Schriever cuts the cord .................... 5 into an Airman who Wyatt knew from base. Annual award winners .................... 8 As the evening was coming to a close, Wyatt and his compatriots called Joint Base U.S. Air Force photos/David Bedard Against Drunk Driving, an Elmendorf- Former Airman 1st Class Lane Wyatt recounts the night of June 30, 2013, when he killed Citari Townes-Sweatt based volunteer organization that offers in an drunk-driving accident. Wyatt was sentenced Dec. 19, 2014, to 18 years in prison. free rides home to service members. Not wanting the fun to stop, they invited the By Chris McCann for a while, Wyatt said, he slipped. newcomer, and the girl he was hanging out Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Public Affairs “I knew I was going wild when I got out of with, to join them. They returned safely to JOINT BASE ELMENDORF- high school,” Wyatt said. “I had to straighten the house, where they listened to music and RICHARDSON, Alaska — He was born up, and the military was the best option.” goofed off. into an Air Force family, moving around He enlisted in the Air Force and his parents Sometime after 4 a.m., the new Airman came to the ceremony when he graduated and the girl he was hanging out with decided from Florida, to Okinawa, then to Oklahoma. from basic military training at Joint Base they wanted to head home, which was about “My parents were strict,” said Lane Wyatt, San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. a half-mile away. a former airman first class and client-systems “They were happy — they thought I was “I decided I’d give them a ride,” Wyatt said. technician stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf- party-crazy, and I flipped the script on them,” “I thought I was good to drive. I thought I Richardson, Alaska. he said. “I was planning on going to college, was fine.” His father, a retired Air Force major, start- and before I’d said I wasn’t going to go. I His friends protested, but ultimately they ed off as an enlisted Airman before commis- wanted to be a scuba instructor, so I was See Airman page 11 sioning. His parents inculcated values, but figuring out what I had to do to get there.” 2 March 12, 2015 Schriever Sentinel SAP’s rocketry project gets attention from Colorado 4-H By Brian Hagberg 50th Space Wing Public Affairs Schriever Air Force Base’s School Age Program recently caught the attention of the Colorado chapter of 4-H for its work in science, technology, engineering and mathematics projects. Specifically, the program’s work with rockets earned it a photo spot on the Colorado State University 4-H (4hstemk12. colostate.edu) website. “We thought rockets would be a great added program to the SAP,” said Mary Barkley, 50th Force Support Squadron flight chief. “We thought it was really appropriate because we are in space command.” The photos were submitted to the website by Vanessa Tranel, Colorado 4-H military liaison, to help promote the 4-H military partnership, as well as the 4-H emphasis on STEM projects. Tranel said the 4-H rocketry program helps youth learn the concepts of flight, design, motion, math and scientific inquiry through the use of hands-on experiments with dif- ferent types of rockets. The photos appearing on the website are from the launch of the third stage of the SAP’s rocket program. Youth began the rocket program, one of the SAP’s long-term projects, by building simple rockets made of straws and launching them using the pressure derived from a dropping weight. “This was a long-term project for the SAP,” said Vicki Rygiel, U.S. Air Force photo/Christopher DeWitt School Age Program coordinator. “It’s been a long-term project School-Age Program children launch a water rocket Sept. 26, 2014, at Schriever Air Force Base, Colo. The SAP collaborated with the 4-H orga- nization for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, project. As part of the learning event, the children also visited the See Attention page 6 Integrated Operations Environment and the GPS operations floor. FAMILY LAW ATTORNEYS Free Consultation Military Discount Flat Rate Uncontested Divorce ANGELA C. JONES JOHN W. ERICKSON, JR. 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