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Red Devil Mirrors Deployed Life Foundation Will Hold the Fifth Annual by Steve Brady Other Academic Lessons Colorado Springs Military Newspaper Group Vol. 1 No. 20 www.csmng.com Thursday, March 22, 2007 Base Briefs Town Hall meeting: Family housing privatization There is a Housing Privatization Town Hall meeting from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today at the Base Auditorium. Housing officials are also available to provide unit briefings. For information on briefings, contact Johnna Phillips at 556-4332. Correction: The March 15 Space Guardian incorrectly reported that housing privatization “will mean that tenants will be forced to sign new leases.” Tenants will be able to choose to sign a lease or move out of housing at government expense. Promotion party The CY06C Majors, Lt. Colonel, and Colonel will hold a promotion party at 4 p.m. March 22 at the Peterson AFB Club. More than 50 Air Force officers from the Peterson Complex were selected for promotion in multiple categories. Wellness fair There is a Mother, Baby and Family Wellness Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 12, at the YMCA at 2190 Jet Wing Drive. Brady Steve by Photo The fair will feature free car seat checks and safety presentations. Admission is Staff Sgt. Jason Casebolt, an electrical power productions craftsman with the 21st Civil Engineer Battalion, provides cover as one of his Warrior Airmen administers free. For information, call 578-3103. aid to a “wounded” Airman. The convoy training exercise was part of Exercise Red Devil at Fort Carson. Career fair In conjunction with the 23rd National Space Symposium, The Space Red Devil mirrors deployed life Foundation will hold the fifth annual By Steve Brady other academic lessons. our life,” he said. “It gives us the familiar- Space Career Fair April 12 at The 21st Space Wing Public Affairs Broadmoor hotel. The fair is open to The training provided a realistic experi- ization so that when we get to the theater undergraduate and graduate students as About 150 Airmen from the 21st Space ence that cannot be duplicated on Peterson and come under small arms attack, we well as transitioning military. For infor- Wing recently deployed from Peterson to because of space limitations. know how to protect ourselves, and more mation, call Kendra Horn at 576-8000. the high desert plains on Fort Carson for “No doubt about it, I’ve been in 20 years, importantly, how to protect our Warrior Exercise Red Devil. and this is the best training I’ve ever had,” Airmen that are with us.” The group, made up of airmen in Air said Master Sgt. Billy York, superintendent The training goes beyond the “tradi- More page 6 Briefs Expeditionary Forces that could deploy of relocations and employments for the 21st tional” Air Force roles, reflecting current in the next few months, left March 11 Mission Support Squadron. He said he may needs in the area of responsibility. for a week of convoy operations, weapons be deploying with AEF 7/8. 9 Emergency airdrop evaluations, self aid, buddy care and “This is the training that is going to save See Red Devil page Fuel delivery to coalition ground forces engaging Taliban right on time. Page 4 Peterson supports delayed MEDEVAC flight By Steve Brady cision was made to move the patients into 21st Space Wing Public Affairs “It was really one of the distinguished visitor area in the pas- Team Pete sprang into action Feb. 28, those occasions that senger terminal, she said. meeting patient and flight crew needs for Like a well-oiled machine, airfield oper- a medical evacuation flight stranded by really makes you ations, transient alert, passenger terminal, weather and mechanical problems. proud to be in the protocol and aerospace medicine squadron After making an en route stop here to personnel all pitched in, providing world- drop off patients bound for Evans Army 21st, proud to be in class installation support. Cots, blankets, Hospital at Fort Carson, the medevac flight the Air Force, and pillows, food and more poured into the ter- departed Peterson, only to return in 30 minal. minutes with a maintenance issue. proud to be able to “Our team made sure all patient and air- Inside the Guardian “The aircraft performed several engine take care of folks who crew needs were met,” said Lt. Col. Charlie runs and was de-iced twice, but then bad really needed us.” Carlton, 21st Aerospace Medicine weather rolled in and the aircraft com- Squadron commander. “We ran our (air Col. Liz Anderson, 21st Space Wing NEWS 1-5 mander declared that his crew hours had evacuation) checklist and had our patient individual mobilization augmentee to run out,” said Staff Sgt. Kasey Johnson, an admin folks on standby, just in case they HAPPENINGS 10 the commander airfield management operations supervisor needed to come in and help make arrange- GO GET OUT 11 for the 21st Operations Support Squadron. ments for these patients to be transported.” Fort Carson emergency services were By this time, the seven patients had been The 21st Flight Medicine team, headed SPORTS 12 notified, but due to the short stay and bad on the aircraft for several hours, and it by Lt. Col. Jeff Bodin and Maj. Miquelle TWO-MINUTE DRILL 13 road conditions, they were unable to would be several more before a replace- transfer the patients to Evans. ment aircraft arrived to move them. A de- See Flight page 9 SPACE GUARDIAN www.csmng.com Thursday, March 22, 2007 3 Photo Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force Courtesy Photo of the U.S. Lt. Gen. Gary North, U.S. Central Command Air Forces commander, gets a first-hand PUBLISHER look at an improved protective turret prototype developed by the USCENTAF force pro- Lon P. Matejczyk tection staff in conjunction with the Air Force Security Forces Force Protection Battlelab. [email protected] EDITORIAL Editor Mike Boyd [email protected] Managing Editor Rob Larimer [email protected] Sports Reporter Walt Johnson [email protected] ADVERTISING Advertising Director/GM Tex Stuart [email protected] Kathleen Gannon [email protected] Mike Keplinger [email protected] Tabitha Kidd [email protected] Linda Stuart [email protected] Classified Ad Manager Emily Frazee [email protected] ART DEPARTMENT Art Director Rowdy Tompkins [email protected] Graphic Designer Jeff Adcox [email protected] Life-saving turret a result of airman’s death Colorado Publishing Company (719) 634-5905, Fax: (719) 634-5157 31 E. Platte Avenue, Suite 300, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903-1246. By Maj. Cristin L’Esperance The entire contents of this publication are copyrighted by Colorado gunfire Oct. 14 while performing duties as a U.S. Central Command Air Forces’ director of Publishing Company. Reproduction or use of content in any manner U.S. Central Command Air Forces Public Affairs is prohibited without prior written consent. turret gunner with his security forces team out force protection. “We’ve lost an airman due to Colorado Publishing Company is owned by SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNEWS) — Less on joint patrol with Iraqi police in the vicinity Dolan Media Company. sniper fire ... and this is a mental and physical James P. Dolan, Chairman, President, than 80 days after Airman 1st Class Leebernard of Baghdad. Chavis, a member of the 732nd Chief Executive Officer. threat that we must mitigate immediately.” Samuel B. Spencer, Executive Vice President. Chavis was felled by a sniper’s bullet near Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, was Airmen from Detachment 7 of the 732nd Scott J. Pollei, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Baghdad, Airmen in Iraq were testing an im- part of the U.S. military police training effort ESFS and the 447th Expeditionary Logistics Mark Stodder, Executive Vice President, Newspapers Lon Matejczyk, Publisher and Vice President proved turret that designers hope will offer supporting Iraqi police. Readiness Squadron’s vehicle maintenance shop service members better protection. “We have an emerging threat that has devel- Chavis, of Hampton, Va., was killed by enemy oped: the sniper,” said Col. 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The 1st Battalion of the 508th Parachute Infantry Division was engaged in combat operations to prevent Taliban extrem- ists’ influence in the Ghorak Valley when the soldiers’ in- creased fuel consumption rates required an emergency supply. The ground forces were operating as part of Operation Achilles, a Helmand Province-focused campaign led by the Six low-velocity chutes deliver International Security Assistance Force. The campaign aims 9,000 pounds of emergency fuel to improve security conditions and ultimately improve the to coalition ground forces en- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s ability to begin recon- gaging Taliban extremists March struction and economic development. 13 in southern Afghanistan. The The Combined Air Operations Center’s Air Mobility supply landed within 35 meters Division, located at an air base in the Persian Gulf, received of the drop zone. the emergency request at about midnight Monday. In less than eight hours, the division’s tactics section had a C-130 Hercules aircrew launched from the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, and flying over the drop zone with 24 55- gallon drums onboard.
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