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  • Chenega, Buckley's silent guardian

    There are many different elements involved in Team Buckley's community that helps to keep service members as well as their family safe, and one of those elements that contributes is the Chenega Security and Protection Service.This law enforcement agency is compiled of seasoned professionals who have

  • Buckley celebrates Joint Junior Enlisted Appreciation Day

    Service members from every unit poured in to celebrate Team Buckley's Joint Junior Enlisted Appreciation Day Aug. 19, 2011.The Joint Junior Enlisted Appreciation Day, was a day set aside for all junior enlisted personnel to come together to bond with one another, while being honored for their

  • Buckley's BASH program seeks to protect aircraft operations

    When driving onto an Air Force base, you cannot help but notice the beautiful landscaping with manicured lawns, trimmed shrubbery, new trees, and maybe even a golf course with a lake on it. But for the Air Force, this is a "Catch 22," you want the base to look nice for folks working, visiting, and

  • Buckley kids complete deployment

    Midst parents holding "Welcome Home" signs and cheering, 60 kids with the Buckley Youth programs returned home from Bucklistan on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011.They had just returned from spending the day learning what it's like to deploy.Termed Operation Future Forces, the event ran from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

  • Team Buckley honors one of it's own

    A charter aircraft arrived at Buckley Aug. 17 bringing Chief Warrant Officer 4, David Carter, Colorado Army National Guard Pilot, to his final resting place.CW4 Carter assigned to Company B, 2/135th Aviation, Colorado Army National Guard, Buckley Air Force Base, was killed in action while

  • Buckley chapel hosts it's monthly fellowship luncheon

    The Buckley Air Force Base Chapel hosted its monthly fellowship luncheon on Aug. 3.Buckley Chapel's staff, hosts these luncheons on the first Wednesday of every month, and has been doing so since the spring of 2001.These gatherings have been put in place to give members of Team Buckley the

  • Team Buckley guards World Trade Center artifacts

    Service members of Team Buckley held a recognition ceremony displaying pieces of steel from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Aug. 8."This special ceremony was to honor the lives that were lost on Sept. 11, 2001," said Col. Daniel Dant, 460th Space Wing Commander. "And for our fellow

  • World Trade Center pieces viewed at Buckley

    From the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, five of sixteen pieces of the World Trade Center arrived at Buckley Air Force Base Sunday Aug. 7, 2011. Believed to be steel from the top five floors of the North Tower, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, have distributed pieces of the

  • CCAF degree... What's the point?

    You are new to the Air Force. You check in to your unit, meet new people, worry that you might not remember everyone's names. You even get lost, twice. You are nervous and excited all at the same time. Your peers seem nice. Your boss sits you down and gives you his initial expectations and you

  • Become an environmental activist

    The environmental movement may have been born in our lifetime. There was not always concern for the extinction of species of animals, holes in the ozone, the particulate matter we inhale or the quality of water that we drink.In 1962 Rachel Carson wrote a book entitled, "Silent Spring." In it she