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Fort Carson's soldier's selfie spawns Facebook page on military social media missteps

Pfc. Tariqka Sheffey is far from alone among soldiers who post pictures online that they - and their commanders - may regret. Fort Carson's Sheffey, who caused an Internet hurricane this week by posting a "selfie" on a website with the claim that she was hiding in her car to avoid saluting the flag, is likely the best known at the moment. But...
Fort Carson soldier's selfie could land her 2 years in prison

Fort Carson leaders launched an investigation into a "selfie" photo of a soldier posted online with a note that said she was hiding in her car to avoid saluting the flag. The soldier's Instagram image went viral Tuesday, drawing a storm of criticism. Pfc. Tariqka Sheffey, of Fort Carson's 43rd Sustainment Group put the image on her Instagram...
Get ready to pay more at the commissary

The often-touted 30 percent average savings that troops and families enjoy in military commissaries would shrink considerably under the Pentagon’s plan to slash taxpayer subsidies for the stores by two-thirds. In unveiling his proposed 2015 defense budget Monday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel emphasized that the Defense Department “is...
Peterson airmen gain experience through deployment to Africa

A group of Peterson Air Force Base airmen became the first airlift troops assigned to Africa on a recent deployment. The deployment, which ended in January, proved to be one of the busiest in the history of the 302nd Airlift Wing, with relief flights into unimproved fields, the evacuation of civilians in war-torn South Sudan, and helping get...
Chuck Hagel proposes big Army cuts, base closures in 2015 budget

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel proposed shrinking the Army, closing military bases and making other military-wide savings Monday as part of a broad reshaping of priorities after more than a decade of war. Hagel outlined his vision in a speech at the Pentagon, a week before President Barack Obama is to submit his 2015 budget...
Pikes Peak Community College opens veterans center in response to more military in transition

The 25 percent of Pikes Peak Community College students who are veterans, active military or military family members have a new Military and Veterans Center of Excellence at the college's Centennial campus near Fort Carson. While temperatures outside the newly remodeled facility hovered around zero, Pikes Peak Community College President...
Drones, smart hydrants considered by experts looking at future of firefighting

The drone detects the fire, a supercomputer analyzes it and determines it's a threat and automated fire hydrants douse it instantly. Welcome to wildfire season. In 2024. That idyllic future was part of an Air Force Academy discussion that plunged firefighters and federal experts into the not-so-distant future as part of an exercise in...
Fort Carson Medal of Honor recipient back in Pueblo for unveiling of portrait

PUEBLO - Just over a year after President Barack Obama hung the nation's highest award for gallantry around his neck, former Fort Carson Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha came home - at least his home away from home. The man who earned the Medal of Honor while serving with Fort Carson's 4th Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan says that a year later...
Peterson AFB mom founded group for parents of autistic kids

Sarah Stockwell isn't your run-of-the-mill military spouse. Before meeting her husband, the native Welsh with a doctoral degree was working as a lithium ion battery researcher in Las Vegas. A military marriage would likely threaten her career, and she knew it. But the heart wants what the heart wants, she said. "I think it's much harder...