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DFAC THanksgiving 2015

Maj. Gen. Scott Jansson (left), Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, serves a Thanksgiving meal at Thunderbird Inn dining facility on Thanksgiving Day. Commanders, chiefs, first sergeants and their spouses served the meal as part of an annual tradition where senior leaders serve a Thanksgiving meal at the facility. (Photo by Dennis Carlson)

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Luke AFB F-35s

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Air Force set to launch next-to-last GPS IIF satellite

Sunlight bathes an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle with GPS IIF-11 satellite encapsulated inside a 4-meter diameter payload shroud and stacked atop the booster as it prepares to roll out from the Vertical Integration Facility to Space Launch Complex-41 in anticipation of a Saturday afternoon launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch window opens Oct. 31 at 12:13 EDT (9:13 a.m. PDT). This is the second to last GPS IIF launch in a series of 12 spacecraft. (Photo courtesy United Launch Alliance).

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Air Force set to launch next GPS IIF satellite

A Global Positioning System IIF-series satellite undergoes final encapsulation inside a four-meter diameter protective payload fairing Oct. 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. GPS IIF satellites provide improved signals that will enhance the precise global positioning, navigation and timing services supporting both the warfighter and the growing civilian needs of our global economy. GPS IIF will provide improved navigational accuracy through advanced atomic clocks, a longer design life than previous GPS satellites, and a third operational civil signal (L5) that benefits commercial aviation and safety-of-life applications. The Air Force and its mission partners are scheduled to launch GPS IIF-11 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 launch vehicle Oct. 30 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. The launch window opens at 12:17 p.m. EDT and will remain open for 18 minutes. (Courtesy photo: United Launch Alliance)

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Air Force set to launch next GPS IIF satellite

A Global Positioning System IIF-series satellite undergoes final encapsulation inside a four-meter diameter protective payload fairing Oct. 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. GPS IIF satellites provide improved signals that will enhance the precise global positioning, navigation and timing services supporting both the warfighter and the growing civilian needs of our global economy. GPS IIF will provide improved navigational accuracy through advanced atomic clocks, a longer design life than previous GPS satellites, and a third operational civil signal (L5) that benefits commercial aviation and safety-of-life applications. The Air Force and its mission partners are scheduled to launch GPS IIF-11 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 launch vehicle Oct. 30 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. The launch window opens at 12:17 p.m. EDT and will remain open for 18 minutes. (Courtesy photo: United Launch Alliance)

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Air Force set to launch next GPS IIF satellite

A close-up image of a Global Positioning System IIF-series satellite as it undergoes final encapsulation Oct. 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. GPS IIF satellites provide improved signals that will enhance the precise global positioning, navigation and timing services supporting both the warfighter and the growing civilian needs of our global economy. GPS IIF will provide improved navigational accuracy through advanced atomic clocks, a longer design life than previous GPS satellites, and a third operational civil signal (L5) that benefits commercial aviation and safety-of-life applications. The Air Force and its mission partners are scheduled to launch GPS IIF-11 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 launch vehicle Oct. 30 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. The launch window opens at 12:17 p.m. EDT and will remain open for 18 minutes. (Courtesy photo: United Launch Alliance)

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Air Force set to launch next GPS IIF satellite

A close-up image of a Global Positioning System IIF-series satellite as it sits atop its payload adapter awaiting final encapsulation within a four-meter diameter protective fairing Oct. 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. GPS IIF satellites provide improved signals that will enhance the precise global positioning, navigation and timing services supporting both the warfighter and the growing civilian needs of our global economy. GPS IIF will provide improved navigational accuracy through advanced atomic clocks, a longer design life than previous GPS satellites, and a third operational civil signal (L5) that benefits commercial aviation and safety-of-life applications. The Air Force and its mission partners are scheduled to launch GPS IIF-11 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 launch vehicle Oct. 30 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. The launch window opens at 12:17 p.m. EDT and will remain open for 18 minutes. (Courtesy photo: United Launch Alliance)

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AF Nuclear Weapons Center construction

Construction continues on the second phase of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center expansion at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The $23.3 million, 74,000 square-foot expansion will consolidate AFNWC personnel under one roof. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jennifer Schneider/Released)

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AF Nuclear Weapons Center construction

Construction continues on the second phase of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center expansion at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The $23.3 million, 74,000 square-foot expansion will consolidate AFNWC personnel under one roof. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jennifer Schneider/Released)

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Transfer ceremony

Maj. Gen. Jack Weinstein, 20th Air Force commander, stands with Maj. Gen. Sandra Finan, former Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center commander, at the 377th Air Base Wing transfer ceremony. The AFNWC transferred command of the wing to Air Force Global Strike Command at a ceremony Oct. 1 at Hardin Field. (Photo by Todd Berenger)

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377 Air Base Wing transfers to AFGSC

Maj. Gens. Jack Weinstein, 20th Air Force commander, and Sandra Finan, Air Force Nuclear Weapon Center commander, shake hands Oct. 1, 2015, on Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., during a ceremony transferring administrative control of the 377th Air Base Wing from the AFNWC to the 20th AF. The consolidation of the 377th along with the three AF ICBM wings into 20th AF is specifically intended to help streamline the nuclear enterprise by placing operational mission support within the AF’s nuclear major command. (U.S. Air Force photo by Todd Berenger)

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AFNWC change of command

Maj. Gen. Scott Jansson, speaks to an audience after taking command of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center during a change of command ceremony Oct. 1 at Hardin Field. (Photo by Dennis Carlson)

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AFNWC change of command

Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, left, Air Force Materiel Command commander, pins the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal on Maj. Gen. Sandra Finan, former Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center commander, during a change of command ceremony Oct. 1 at Hardin Field. (Photo by Todd Berenger)

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377th Air Base Wing Transfer to AFGSC

Maj. Gen. Jack Weinstein, 20th Air Force commander, speaks at a ceremony Oct. 1, 2015, at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., transitioning the 377th Air Base Wing from Air Force Materiel Command to Air Force Global Strike Command. (U.S. Air Force by Todd Berenger/Released)

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AFNWC change of command ceremony

Maj. Gen. Scott Jansson, right, takes the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center guidon from Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, Air Force Materiel Command, during a change of command ceremony Oct. 1 at Hardin Field. Jansson is the new AFNWC commander. (Photo by Todd Berenger)

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Info exchange facilitates change

Airman 1st Class Leslie Friestad, 90th Maintenance Operations Squadron, performs maintenance on a missile guidance set during missile maintenance training in the U-01 practice launch facility on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., Aug. 4, 2014. The practice launch facility prepares Airmen for the rigorous maintenance they will have to routinely conduct on actual missiles as part of their duties. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center Force Improvement Program team observed a similar operation in an actual launch facility in June to see how AFNWC could better support the mission (U.S. Air Force photo by Lan Kim).

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GPS

Charles Selph, 567th Electronics Maintenance Squadron electronics technician, runs functional tests on a GPS receiver. The GPS shop located in the Avionics Complex at Robins tests and repairs receivers used on various weapon systems supported by the Air Force and Navy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tommie Horton)

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F-15E OT322

The F-15E OT322 taxis in preparation for takeoff. An inert version of the upgraded B61 nuclear weapon was released it from the aircraft over the Nellis Test and Training Range Complex. The B61 is in the process of a life-extension program, which includes upgrading aging components and a new tail kit assembly. (Courtesy photo)

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AFNWC ground breaking

Sen. Martin Heinrich and Maj. Gen. Sandra Finan, commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, cut the ribbon at a ceremony introducing a new building at the AFNWC. The ribbon cutting was for the recently completed “phase one” of the expansion, a $29 million, 56,000-square-foot workspace that will soon serve as the workplace for 350 people. It will house the AFNWC’s Sustainment and Technical Integration Center and members of the Nuclear Technology and Interagency Directorate.(Photo by Dennis Carlson)

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