COLORADO SPRINGS MILITARY NEWSPAPER GROUP SCCHRIEVERHRIEVER SEENTINELNTINEL Th ursday, April 3, 2008 www.csmng.com Vol. 2 No. 14 Base Briefs April is Child Abuse Prevention Month Col. Terry Djuric, 50th Space Wing commander, will read a proclamation for Child Abuse Prevention Month at 2 p.m. in the wing conference room in the DeKok Building. For more information, contact Martina Porter of Family Advocacy at 556-8943. Speakers wanted Do you like to speak in public? Are you looking to support your community in a special way? Th e Speakers Bureau can be a great way to do both! Th e 50th Space Wing Public Aff airs Offi ce is recruiting civilian and military volunteers to speak at local schools, colleges, veterans meet- ing and more. Topic of speech can extend beyond your career fi eld, and can also include your life, military experiences and travel. Speakers will also have the chance to speak at events such as Veteran’s Day, photo Courtesy Memorial Day and Independence Day. Meetings will be held to give tips on speaking in public, practice sessions, as Master Sgt. Sara Dozier of the 50th Network Operations Group and Gordon Burlison of the 4th Space Operations Squadron both received 14th Air Force level awards well as briefi ngs on upcoming events. in a March 21 ceremony at Vandendberg AFB. Sergeant Dozier received 14th AF First Sergeant of the Year and Mr. Burlison received 14th AF Category II Civilian of the For more information, contact the Year. Left to right: 50th Space Wing Command Chief Master Sgt. Clarence Moore, 50th Space Wing commander Col. Terry Djuric, Sergeant Dozier, Mr. Burlison, 50th 50th PA offi ce at 567-5044. NOG commander Col. Robert Skinner, Chief Master Sgt. Wayne Whetsell of 50th NOG, and Capt. Heidi Dexter of 4th SOPS. Fitness center offers new class th Th e Main Fitness Center will hold a circuit training class every Friday at 14 AF recognizes Schriever’s best 9:30 a.m. By Staff Sgt. Daniel Martinez Strategic Command, at Vandenberg AFB, and Arizona Senator John McCain. Th e class will be one hour and uses 50th Space Wing Public Affairs presented the awards to the winners. “Getting the award was a great opportu- light resistance, bands, balls and bars Two members from Schriever were hon- “It just seems kind of surreal,” Sergeant nity,” Mr. Burlison said. “It was great going to enhance overall fi tness. ored with a 14th Air Force level awards March Dozier said. “I never would have expected all the way to 14th Air Force to meet General For more information, contact the 21 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. to win this high of an award.” Shelton and 14th Air Force leadership.” Main Fitness Center at 567-6628. Master Sgt. Sara Dozier of the 50th Network Sergeant Dozier, as a group level shirt for the Mr. Burlison is an electronics engineer for Operations Group received the 14th Air wing, supports four diff erent squadrons. She 4th SOPS. Based on his job knowledge and DASH volunteers wanted Force First Sergeant of the Year award, and served as the Air Force Space Command lead experience, he was requested by United States th Drive A Servicemember Home needs Gordon Burlison of the 4 Space Operations for a worldwide fi rst sergeants conference and European Command to train 10 Army per- th volunteers from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. April Squadron received the 14 Air Force Category was the 506th Air Expeditionary Group fi rst sonnel on advanced Milstar network optimi- 4 and 5. II Civilian of the Year award. sergeant while deployed to Kirkuk Air Base, zation. He also helped mastermind a weather One weekend dispatcher and 14 drivers, Lt. Gen. William Shelton, commander of Iraq. While deployed to Iraq, she led 10 other monitoring system, predicting rain-related th 8 males and 6 females, are needed. 14 Air Force and of the Joint Functional fi rst sergeants as council president and oversaw signal loss from Milstar satellites, cutting For more information, contact Staff Component Command for Space, U.S. distinguished visitors including six generals satellite commanding outages in half. Sgt. Adrian Fernandez of the 1st Space Operations Squadron at 567-2747. Finance expert to hold free 50th Operations Group claims Chennault Trophy seminar By Staff Sgt. Don Branum system a reality. Th e LADO system allows Financial expert Dave Ramsey will 50th Space Wing Public Affairs 2nd SOPS and 19 SOPS operators to control hold a free seminar from 9 a.m. to noon Th e 50th Operations Group here has won a GPS satellite from cradle to grave — from April 4 in the Special Events Center at the Lieutenant General Claire Chennault minutes aft er launch until the satellite is Fort Carson. Trophy for the fi rst time since 2003 for its retired into an out-of-the-way orbit. It per- Mr. Ramsey’s “Total Money Makeover” eff orts in modernizing its space systems and formed so strongly during a GPS launch in seminar will cover getting out of debt, improving the combat eff ects it delivers for October that Lt. Gen. William Shelton, the spending money purposefully, and keys warfi ghters. commander of 14th Air Force, decommis- sioned the previous Command and Control to saving and investing. Th e trophy, which recognizes the best op- System only 60 days later. For more information, contact Fort erations group in 14th Air Force, is named “Th rough all this, the same group in Carson’s Army Community Service at aft er Lt. Gen. Claire Chennault, who orga- many cases was still fl ying the active GPS 526-4590. nized volunteer pilots into a fi ghting force constellation and providing the best navi- in East Asia before and aft er World War II gation signal the world has seen,” Colonel and who later became the fi rst commander North parking lot under Crosier said. of 14th Air Force. construction Th e other space operations squadrons “It’s extraordinary that our Airmen have vide the world’s most accurate timing and have been similarly busy with moderniza- Construction at the North Portal been so successful during historic modern- navigation signal, Colonel Crosier said. parking lot will continue until June 24. tion. Th e fi rst Wideband Global SATCOM ization and operations tempos,” said 50th “Just imagine the international conse- satellite launched in October 2007, and 3rd Parking will not be available in the fi rst OG commander Col. Clinton Crosier. quences if that eight-hour (transition) pe- four rows throughout the construction SOPS took control of the satellite in January. “Not only did our people persevere, they riod had not gone right,” he said. “We had WGS represents the fi rst new satellite system period. excelled, and I’m very proud of all of them plans in place so that we could fall back to For more information, contact Senior in the 50th Space Wing in more than 10 for that.” the legacy system gracefully, but once we years. Fourth SOPS continues its prepara- Airman Nancy Hubbard of the 50th Several eff orts were keystones in 50th transitioned, we never had to go back. Civil Engineer Squadron at 567-4693. tion for the fi rst Advanced Extremely High OG’s recent modernization eff orts, but the “Th e people who worked on the transition Frequency satellite, and 1st SOPS is pre- More Briefs page 11 eff ort that had the least impact was lauded have a mantra: ‘We changed the world, and paring for the launch of the Space Based as the most successful. In October, the nobody noticed.’ We changed the way we Surveillance System. Both are scheduled to Inside 2nd and 19th Space Operations Squadrons employ GPS, culminating a seven-year tran- launch later this year or early 2009. and the Space and Missile Systems Center sition in a day, and no one noticed. Th at’s “Four of Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael migrated command and control of GPS extraordinary.” Commentary ......................... 5 Moseley’s top fi ve space modernization pri- from a 22-year-old legacy system to a new Many of the same people who worked on Get Out and Go ...................... 7 the AEP transition also made 2nd SOPS’ Around the Air Force .......... 10 Architecture Evolution Plan. Th e new system See Chennault page 11 will allow space operators to continue to pro- Launch, Anomaly and Disposal Operations Schriever Sentinel 2 April 3, 2008 QUALITY. It’s the way our HONESTY. homes are built. It’s the way we INTEGRITY. do business. 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