Airman 1st Class Justin Barnes, 2nd Space Operations Squadron, was anticipating his first shift on satellite operations crew duty as he drove to Schriever Dec. 19.
Thoughts of what might happen, who he might meet and the work to be performed dominated his brain patterns as he wound through neighborhoods, paused at stoplights and eventually pulled on to Colorado Highway 94 for the last leg of his drive that cold winter night.
Just as he began descending the hill east of Marksheffel Road, Airman Barnes noticed something strange in the roadway.
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