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  • Kirtland officer receives aviation award

    Capt. Thad Ronnau, an HH-60G helicopter instructor pilot in the 58th Special Operations Wing, received the Cheney Award in a ceremony at 9 a.m. Dec. 9 at Kirtland Air Force Base.The Cheney Award is an aviation award presented by the U.S. Air Force in memory of 1st Lt. William Cheney, who was killed

  • 150th Fighter Wing becomes 150th Special Operations Wing

    The New Mexico Air National Guard's 150th Fighter Wing was redesignated as the 150th Special Operations Wing Dec. 1, inheriting the new mission of training mission-ready aircrews in special operations and personnel recovery. The historic redesignation of the 150th is in conjunction with a three-year

  • Kirtland-managed satellite prepares for launch

    The Kirtland-managed Space Test Program Satellite-3 is scheduled to launch Nov. 19 aboard a Minotaur I rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va.The spacecraft, along with 28 CubeSats, will be carried into the cosmos as part of the Operationally Responsive Space-3 mission.

  • CJR program suspended until further notice

    The Career Job Reservation program has been suspended by the Air Force until further program guidance becomes available.Any Airmen who was in a constraining career field with a February 2014 date of separation will not receive a CJR. For those four-year enlistees with a TAFMSD of February 2010 and

  • Competition teaches students about cyber security

    In coming weeks, teams of Albuquerque high school students will participate in a national competition designed to help them learn to protect computer system and networks. Their success will depend, in part, on the efficacy of Kirtland and Sandia National Laboratories mentors who have helped teach

  • AFRL University Nanosatellite Program celebrates satellite launches

    Excitement was in the air recently when two of the Air Force Research Laboratory's  University Nanosatellite Program satellites were successfully launched at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on a SpaceX Falcon 9 1.1 rocket. Cornell University's CUSat and the University of Colorado Boulder's Drag

  • Kirtland takes first place at military Defender's Cup soccer tournament

    Kirtland's soccer team mounted a furious comeback in the final minutes of the championship game of the military Defender's Cup, narrowly edging FE Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., to capture first place honors.Trailing 3-1 with five minutes remaining, Kirtland pulled a defender and started pushing its

  • Pluto's near miss still provides useful information

    Pluto was recently of special interest to some scientists because it was expected to occult, or overlap, a star, providing information on Pluto's atmosphere. This occultation would be visible on Earth only in the Hawaiian Islands, so the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., asked Dr.