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  • Security Forces practices and teaches active shooter scenario

    A series of coordinated attacks by terrorist extremists strikes the citizens of Paris, killing 130. A hotel siege in Mali by two men armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and explosives claims 20 more in another jihadi attack. A shootout between two groups disrupts a neighborhood block party in New

  • Air Force Awards Two Rocket Propulsion System Prototype OTAs

    Today the Space and Missile Systems Center awarded the first two Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs) for shared public-private investments in Rocket Propulsion System (RPS) prototypes to SpaceX for development testing of the Raptor upper stage engine and Orbital ATK for development of the Common

  • SMC "brat" makes guest star appearance on ABC-TV's "Modern Family"

    The siren call of Hollywood as the entertainment capital of the world and its images of fame, fortune and celebrityhood have lured many to try and "Make it Big in Tinsletown."Although many have had their dreams dashed, a few who once served in the Air Force have gone on to notable careers, such as

  • SMC strengthens community relations

    Mayor Suzanne Fuentes of El Segundo recently met with Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, Space and Missile Systems Center commander and Air Force program executive officer for space, Maj. Gen. Robert McMurry, SMC vice commander, Thomas Fitzgerald, acting executive director, Col. Donna Turner, 61st Air Base

  • SMC assists with L.A. veterans' stand down

    Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition defines stand-down as either a noun or transitive verb to denote a state of rest or ease after a state of alert or readiness. For three days in December, just before the holidays, the pace of events in downtown Los Angeles were anything but

  • New SBIRS ground system celebrates two major milestones

    Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center announced the completion of two major milestones in the development and fielding of its new Space-based Infrared System ground system.For the first time the new system, dubbed Block 10 Increment 2, simultaneously commanded the full missile

  • Juno PTV successfully launched for Missile Defense Test

    The U.S. Air Force's Rocket Systems Launch Program and its mission partners successfully completed the fourth launch of a Patriot Test Vehicle today from the U.S. Army's Fort Wingate near Gallup, New Mexico. The rocket serves as an intercept target for the U.S. Army Lower Tier Project Office Patriot

  • Air Force twins receive French Legion of Honor for WWII service

    Seventy-one years after their service in the U.S. Army Air Forces, identical twin brothers -- retired Air Force Reserve Majs. Raymond "Glenn" Clanin and Russell "Lynn" Clanin -- received  the French government's highest distinction as World War II veterans, The Legion of Honor medal.During an

 

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