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  • Awards announced at annual event

    At a ceremony Feb. 18 at the Mountain View Club the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center announced its annual award winners.All awards are for the time period Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2010.Leighanna Martinez received the Civilian of the Year Category I award for accomplishments as a budget technician with the

  • Kirtland AFB captain receives recognition from national conference

    Capt. Philip Joseph, Weapons Storage and Security System Project Manager at the 498th Nuclear Systems Wing, recently received special recognition from the Black Engineer of the Year Award Global Competitiveness Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference honors outstanding individuals who have

  • Small businesses can thrive on Kirtland AFB

    Small Business Office benefits installation and off-base companies"There are 300 to 500 small companies currently doing business on Kirtland. In the past 13 months, I have conducted four quarterly meetings and we invite many of the primary on-base organizations to attend." -- Francisco Tapia,

  • Top 3 elects new council

    The Team Kirtland Top 3 Association elected a new executive council for 2011 during a meeting Dec. 17, 2010.Association members elected the following senior non-commissioned officers to the organization's top positions: president -- Master Sgt. Cody Green, 377th Security Forces Squadron; cice

  • Work worth doing and dedicated, skilled staff inspire directorate director

    When he became head of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate on Oct. 23, 2010, Dr. David A. Hardy thought he had left behind 35 years of space science experience to guide an organization focused on cutting-edge laser, optical, and microwave technologies, but the opportunity

  • Kirtland NCO wins Lance P. Sijan award

    Senior Master Sgt. Brett B. Rogers, former superintendent of the 377th Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight, won the senior noncommissioned officer Lance P. Sijan award for 2010 at the Air Force level.The award covered the time from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010. During part of that time, Sergeant

  • WWII veteran receives Distinguished Flying Cross

    An Army Air Corps veteran of World War II received formal recognition of his combat heroism in a Dec. 29 ceremony at Kirtland Air Force Base. Sixty-six years after his actions in the sky over Berlin, Germany, 2nd Lt. Robert L. Giles accepted the Distinguished Flying Cross from Col. Fred Hartwig,

  • Forty-two years of dedicated service and counting

    Working for nearly half a century can put a lot of wear and tear on a body, but Gloria Mitchell barely shows the effects of her long service to the Air Force.Ms. Mitchell started working as a waitress at the Mountain View Club on base in 1968. Back then, cigarettes were 36 cents a pack, minimum wage

  • Pan-STARRS telescope system discovers asteroid

    An exciting discovery occurred this September when Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System researchers discovered an asteroid that came within 4 million miles of Earth in mid October.The asteroid is about 150 feet in diameter, and was about 20 million miles away when discovered. Given the

  • Asteroid images from ground confirmed by spacecraft flyby

    In July, the European Space Agency Rosetta spacecraft beamed back to Earth impressive images of the 100-kilometer-sized asteroid, Lutetia.Astronomers using three of the world's largest ground-based telescopes were making their own assessments of the asteroid's shape and size.Their Rosetta pre-flyby