SMC hosts SecAF's visit to LAAFB
The Honorable Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the Air Force and U.S. Representative Ted Lieu, California 33rd congressional district, 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, Col. Donna Turner, 61st Air Base Group commander and Chief Master Sgt. Craig Hall, SMC command chief pause for a group photo near the Armillary Sphere on the grounds of the Schriever Space Complex during the Secretary’s Aug. 12 visit to Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, Calif. Commissioned by the Air Force Association to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Western Development Division, forerunner of today’s Space and Missile Systems Center, the steel-and-aluminum spherical sculpture was created in 1978 by San Pedro artist Jack Brogan. The inner rings of the monument represent the Earth, while the outer rings represent the tracks of satellites developed by SMC orbiting around it. (U.S. Air Force photo/Joseph Juarez)