Tour group gets feel for Air Force mission

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Staff Sgt. Tracy Myers lets Shannon Bowen touch an F-15 Eagle missile during her senior class' tour of the 33rd Fighter Wing here April 26. The class is from the Tennessee School for the Blind in Nashville. Sergeant Myers is an instructor with the 33rd Maintenance Operations Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Robert Zoellner)

College tests offered for Airmen manning internment camp

CAMP BUCCA, Iraq -- Still wearing body armor, Staff Sgt. Shawn Andrews answers questions on a College Level Examination Program test here. Sergeant Andrews was one of 74 Airmen of the 586th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron taking advantage of a recent visit to the camp by Staff Sgt. Alan Smith, 386th Air Expeditionary Wing test control officer. Unit members were able to take tests under either the CLEP or Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support programs. Sergeant Andrews is currently deployed to the 586th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron here from the 31st Security Forces Squadron at Aviano Air Base, Italy. (Courtesy photo)

Steady as she goes

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Airmen work on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during the kick-off of the 347th Rescue Wing's operational readiness inspection. The Air Force's only combat search and rescue wing is undergoing its first ORI since transitioning to Air Force Special Operations Command in 2003. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joshua Jasper)

Sparks fly

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Lt. Col. Scot Shively welds a loop on the 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron's entry control gate here recently. The colonel, who commands the squadron, and other squadron Airmen are trained and qualified to do a variety of jobs to remain a completely self-sufficient, self-contained mobile unit. The Airmen of the 727th EACS are deployed from the 728th Air Control Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. They arrived here in January. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Adam Bradford)

Air Force chaplains serve to keep Airmen fit to fight

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Senior Airman Stephen King reads the Bible before a worship service at a forward deployed location Feb. 16. Airman King is a 379th Air Expeditionary Wing chaplains assistant deployed from Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Colette Bennett)

Joint STARS duo reaches troops on the ground

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Tech. Sgt. Thomas Bloomberg and Airman 1st Class Emily Leece communicate with ground forces more than five miles below them. They are E-8C Joint STARS air operations technicians with the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing at a forward-deployed location here from Robins Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Mike Dorsey)