PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Headquarters Air Force Space Command personnel celebrated the Air Force’s 63rd birthday, Sept. 17-a day early- with cake and punch. Maj. Gen. Michael J. Basla, Air Force Space Command vice commander and Hartinger Building’s most junior Airman Senior Airman Brittany L. Hemmingsen, HQ AFSPC commander’s support staff, share the honor of cutting the Air Force birthday cake during the birthday celebration in Rosie’s Cafeteria. The official date of the founding of the U.S. Air Force is Sept. 18, 1947. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Duncan Wood)
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