30FSS Vandenberg Base Library

30FSS Vandenberg Base Library Welcome to the official 30FSS Vandenberg Base Library page! Here you can find upcoming events and news from our institution.

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We are closed Friday through Monday for the Juneteenth holiday weekend.
06/19/2026

We are closed Friday through Monday for the Juneteenth holiday weekend.

Join us Thursday Evening, 18 June, at 1700 for a fun Game Night!
06/17/2026

Join us Thursday Evening, 18 June, at 1700 for a fun Game Night!

Thanks to everyone who joined us for today's Summer Reading Program event - making pinecone bird feeders.Join us next We...
06/17/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined us for today's Summer Reading Program event - making pinecone bird feeders.
Join us next Wednesday, 24 June, at 1500 for Making Rain in a Jar!

Col Horne Reading List - sign up for this challenge on Vandenberg.beanstack.com. Log the titles you finish and go to t...
06/17/2026

Col Horne Reading List - sign up for this challenge on Vandenberg.beanstack.com. Log the titles you finish and go to the circulation desk to get your book bag and matching patches.

Walter Isaacson's biography follows Elon Musk from a difficult childhood in South Africa—marked by a harsh, emotionally abusive father and relentless schoolyard bullying—through his emergence as one of the most consequential and polarizing entrepreneurs of his era. Drawing on two years of close access (shadowing Musk, attending meetings, and interviewing family, friends, and adversaries), Isaacson traces the founding and growth of his major ventures: Zip2, X.com/PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity, Neuralink, The Boring Company, and his turbulent acquisition of Twitter (now X). A central theme is Musk's embrace of extreme risk and crisis—what Isaacson and others call a "demon mode"—and his belief that intense pressure and a willingness to question every requirement (his "algorithm" of deleting, simplifying, and accelerating) drive breakthrough innovation. The book candidly examines the personal cost of this drive, including strained marriages and relationships, complicated family dynamics, and the toll on those who work for him. Isaacson neither idolizes nor condemns his subject; instead he presents Musk as a contradictory figure whose visionary ambition (electric vehicles, reusable rockets, Mars colonization) is inseparable from his impulsiveness, combativeness, and at times reckless behavior. Ultimately, the biography asks whether Musk's disruptive, often brutal methods are the unavoidable price of the kind of audacious progress he pursues.

Summer Reading Program: Feed a Bird!Join us Weds, 17 Jun at 1500 as we make bird feeders from pine cones, peanut butter ...
06/17/2026

Summer Reading Program: Feed a Bird!
Join us Weds, 17 Jun at 1500 as we make bird feeders from pine cones, peanut butter and bird seeds.

Col Horne Reading Challenge - This week we are highlighting: Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Rober...
06/16/2026

Col Horne Reading Challenge - This week we are highlighting: Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram is a biography of Colonel John Boyd, one of the most influential—and abrasive—military theorists of the 20th century. As a fighter pilot and instructor at the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base, Boyd earned the nickname "Forty-Second Boyd" for his standing bet that he could defeat any opponent in simulated air combat within forty seconds, and he codified his insights into the Aerial Attack Study, which became the bible of air combat tactics. He went on to develop the Energy-Maneuverability (E-M) Theory, a mathematical approach to comparing aircraft performance that reshaped fighter design and was central to the development of lightweight, agile aircraft like the F-15 and especially the F-16.

Perhaps his most enduring contribution was the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act), a concept of getting inside an opponent's decision cycle to create confusion and collapse their ability to respond. His broader briefing, "Patterns of Conflict," drew on ideas of "destruction and creation"—the cycle of breaking down old mental models to build better ones—and profoundly influenced maneuver warfare doctrine. These ideas shaped a generation of military thinkers and are widely credited with informing the swift, deception-based ground campaign of the 1991 Gulf War in the Middle East. Coram portrays Boyd not only as a brilliant theorist but as a stubborn, self-sacrificing maverick who put his ideas above his career and personal life.

We have two copies here at the library that you can check out. Track your reading on Vandenberg.beanstackcom. Log when you complete this book to get your patch!

The Library will be CLOSED for JUNETEENTH! Fri, 19 June through Mon, 22 June.
06/16/2026

The Library will be CLOSED for JUNETEENTH! Fri, 19 June through Mon, 22 June.

We have completed our first week of Summer Reading and Smartest Squadron Challenge and here are the results so far...
06/13/2026

We have completed our first week of Summer Reading and Smartest Squadron Challenge and here are the results so far...

Spice Club: this week we are highlighting the herb Basil, Italian Basil, used in so many great Italian dishes.Next week ...
06/12/2026

Spice Club: this week we are highlighting the herb Basil, Italian Basil, used in so many great Italian dishes.
Next week it will be Oregano, which translates to Oros (mountain) and ganos (joy) meaning Joy of the Mountain. Ancient Greeks said it was a gift from Aphrodite to bring happiness.
Stop by the library this week for Basil and next week for Oregano!

Tonight we had our Adult Summer Reading Program: Paint and Sip Tea event!Join us in 2 weeks for our Botanical Mixology e...
06/12/2026

Tonight we had our Adult Summer Reading Program: Paint and Sip Tea event!

Join us in 2 weeks for our Botanical Mixology event, Thursday, 25 June, at 1700.

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100 Community Loop, Bldg 10343-A
Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA
93437

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Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
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