Rocky Mountain Raiders

21st Security Forces Squadron "Rocky Mountain Raiders" · USAF · 2024-present

An OCP-toned morale patch of the 21st Security Forces Squadron, the Defenders who hold the gates at Peterson Space Force Base and stand watch 2,000 feet inside the granite of Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, where NORAD and U.S. Northern Command keep their Cold War-era vigil over missile warning and homeland defense. The shell-crowned skull against the Front Range reads as pure gate-guard bravado — the "Rocky Mountain Raiders" spirit of a squadron whose flightline is a mountain. This example was gifted to SSgt Sally by the base Security Forces at Peterson SFB, the kind of patch that changes hands between Defenders rather than being issued.