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Tom Roeder

Military Editor

Tom Roeder is the Gazette's senior military editor. In Colorado Springs since 2003, Tom covers seven military installations in Colorado, including five in the Pikes Peak region. His main job, though, is being dad to two great kids.

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Col. Marcus Caughey, 50th Space Wing vice commander, was the key speaker at Schriever Air Force Base's 911 ceremony held here Sept. 11. The colonel gave personal accounts of the heroism he witnessed while working in the Pentagon on the day it was attacked in 2001. The memorial ceremony featured a wreath placement as well as a moment of silence while the bell was wrung in three secessions of five rings to honor those lost 13 years ago. (U.S. Air Force photo/Christopher DeWitt)

Peterson Air Force Base colonel facing rape charge found dead in his home

By: TOM ROEDER tom.roeder@gazette,com • Updated: Tue, Sep 27, 2016

An Air Force colonel facing life in prison for rape at an October court-martial apparently took his own life Sunday, police said.

Colorado Springs police spokesman Sgt. Tim Stankey said Monday that officers...

A sign was erected Monday, September 19, 2016, along Fountain Boulevard just west of Powers naming that highway section the Buffalo Soldiers Memorial Highway. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette

New Colorado Springs road signs honor Buffalo Soldiers

By: tom roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com • Updated: Mon, Sep 26, 2016

African-American troops who defended Western settlers from marauding tribes and turned the tide of the Spanish-American War now have a roadside remembrance in Colorado Springs.

Colorado Department of...

A ceremony for the uncasing of the 10th Combat Support Hospital brigade flag and battle streamers, symbolizing the end of the brigade's nine-month deployment to Kuwait, at Fort Carson on Wednesday, September 21, 2016. Photo by Stacie Scott, The Gazette

Fort Carson doctors saved Iraqi troops with battlefield surgeries

By: tom roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com • Updated: Sun, Sep 25, 2016

Fort Carson doctors, nurses and medics gave battlefield treatment to wounded Iraqi troops during a nine-month deployment to the Middle East that ended last week.

The 10th Combat Support Hospital held a...

A new sign designates a stretch of Highway 24 through Colorado Springs as the Buffalo Soldiers Memorial Highway. Mark Reis/The Gazette

Bomby McBomberface among rejected names for Air Force's new B-21

By: tom roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com • Updated: Sun, Sep 25, 2016

Bomby McBomberface was one of hundreds of rejected name suggestions for the Air Force's B-21 Raider bomber.

The failed names were revealed in a document obtained by military blog War Is Boring, and the list...

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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - JUNE 8: A water tower overlooks the community of Security in the foreground of Pike's Peak on June 8, 2016. A invisible toxic chemical has been discovered in the drinking water that affects 70,000 people in the communities south of Colorado Springs. (Photo by Michael Reaves/The Denver Post)

Lawsuit filed by Colorado Springs-area water customers in connection with contaminated wells

By: tom roeder and jakob RODGERS The Gazette • Updated: Wed, Sep 21, 2016

Three Security Water District customers have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against companies that manufactured a military firefighting foam that's thought tied to contaminated wells in Widefield, Security...

Vehicle commander Spc. Paul Joseph watches as soldiers and airmen secure his Stryker vehicle inside a Boeing C-17 transport plane Friday, Sept. 17, 2016, during a joint exercise with Fort Carson's 1st Brigade Combat Team and Air Force's 621st Contingency Response Wing from New Jersey at the Fort Carson terminal next to the Colorado Springs Airport. Two of the armored vehicles were transported from the Colorado Springs army base to the airport, loaded and flown as part of the exercise. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)

Fort Carson soldiers training exercise preps for rapid global response

By: TOM ROEDER tom.roeder@gazette.com • Updated: Sun, Sep 18, 2016

The 90 tons of cargo made for a long takeoff and required yards and yards of heavy chains.

But a flight last week proved that a Fort Carson brigade can wing its way to war in hours.

The Friday...

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