Author: David Bitton

Sights and sounds from the 36th Space Symposium, the world’s largest space show, held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. (Video by Skyler Ballard) Colorado Springs aerospace contractor Infinity Systems Engineering is looking to grow locally and outside the city, opening its first satellite office with plans for more. “We have some pretty aggressive goals…

Maj. Gen. David Hodne took command of Fort Carson and the 4th Infantry Division from Maj. Gen. Matthew McFarlane on Thursday during a change of command ceremony at the Mountain Post. McFarlane assumed command of the 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson on Oct. 4, 2019, leading the post through the first year and a…

Ayebee fears for his life. The former interpreter for American troops, now married with kids, desperately wants to get his family out of Afghanistan. “He is terrified of being beheaded right now,” said Eric Sebastian, a former infantryman who served in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz Province from 2011 to 2012 and developed a deep friendship with him.…

Retired 1st Sgt. Reginald Barrett stood tall as Congressman Doug Lamborn pinned a Purple Heart medal over his heart Monday outside Fort Carson’s main gate. The 27-year military veteran deployed to Iraq three times and suffered invisible injuries after enduring multiple concussive blasts from improvised explosive devices. “I’ve been blown up so much,” Barrett said. “I…

Online video games are nothing new, but there is a growing group of men and women within the Air and Space forces participating. Air Force Gaming launched last year and quickly grew to 15,000 members, with enlisted personnel enjoying game including Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, League of Legends and Rocket League. In addition to those…

Dustin Gray had already served three years in the Army when 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airplanes, flying two into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the Pentagon outside Washington D.C. with the fourth crashing in a field in Shanksville, Penn. Nearly 3,000 people died on Sept.…

All troops will soon be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the Pentagon announced Monday afternoon. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will request a waiver for the mandate from President Joe Biden by mid-September unless the U.S. Food and Drug Agency fully approves the Pfizer vaccine ahead of then, which Austin said is likely. “Get the…