Air Force Saxophonists visit Los Angeles AFB

LAAFB Represented in El Segundo Holiday Parade

LAAFB hosts deployment experience for children

The annual Kids Understanding Deployment Operations event was held Oct. 22, at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro, Calif. The event was sponsored by the Airman & Family Readiness Center here and introduced approximately 120 military children to the reality of deployment.The children ranged in age from five

GPS IIF-1 Team Wins AF Chief of Staff Award

A Total Force team comprised of members from the 19th and 2nd Space Operations squadrons, Space and Missile Systems Center's Global Positioning Systems Directorate and the Aerospace Corporation received the Air Force Chief of Staff Team Excellence Award. The team was recognized at the 2011 Air Force

LAAFB Commemorates 9/11 with Solemn Ceremony

Members of the LAAFB community joined together on Sept. 11 to pay tribute to the memory of the men and women who lost their lives 10 years ago in the terrorist attacks at the New York City World Trade Center, The Pentagon and aboard United Airlines Flight 93. The ceremony included personal anecdotes

LAAFB honors POW/MIAs with 24-hour torch relay, wreath-laying ceremony

More than 50 runners representing all branches of the military services commemorated National POW/MIA Recognition Day with a 24-hour 60-plus-mile torch relay run that culminated in a wreath-laying ceremony here Sept. 16. The relay began with a torch-lighting ceremony where speakers portrayed various

LAAFB Marks Air Force Birthday

LA Dodgers Honor Military, First Responders

Groundbreaking Held for Next Generation NHS-B Antenna

The first step in achieving the next generation in satellite tracking capability was taken at New Boston Air Force Station on July 21 with a groundbreaking ceremony marking the beginning of the New Hampshire Tracking Station B-Side Remote Tracking Station Block Change project. This project, which

GPS Satellite Achieves 20 Years On-orbit

GPS Block IIA-11 (SVN-24), built by Boeing (formerly Rockwell Corporation), was launched on July 4, 1991 and set healthy to navigation and timing users on Aug. 31, 1991. SVN-24 will reach 20 years on-orbit on July 4. SVN-24 was the second space vehicle in the series of the GPS IIA satellites to be