Remembering Sept. 11

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Master Sgt. Christina Hamel receives the American flag during a Sept. 11 retreat ceremony for members of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing at a forward-deployed location. The base honor guard completed the ceremony, which preceded a Sept. 11 memorial service at the base's theater. Sergeant Hamel is deployed from the Kansas Air National Guard's 184th Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Natalia DaSilva)

American Eagle flies in Swiss sky

PAYERNE AIR BASE, Switzerland -- Capt. Joel Hemphill taxis an F-15 Eagle back to the parking area after his performance Sept. 5 for more than 180,000 people at the Air 04 air show here. This is the first air show in Switzerland in more than 12 years. Captain Hemphill is a pilot with the F-15 West Coast Demonstration Team from the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The aircraft is from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Robert Zoellner)

Suspected contraband

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - Officials have preferred charges against Maj. Gregory McMillion after an investigation found evidence he allegedly shipped contraband items here from an Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment. Major McMillion is assigned to the base's 728th Air Control Squadron. (Courtesy photo)

Suspected contraband

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - Officials have preferred charges against Maj. Gregory McMillion after an investigation found evidence he allegedly shipped contraband items here from an Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment. The suspected contraband includes rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Major McMillion is assigned to the base's 728th Air Control Squadron. (Courtesy photo)

Iraqi, American fighter pilots band together

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Col. Mike Dubie (right) shows an Iraqi fighter pilot the controls of an F-16 Fighting Falcon during a visit here July 20. Six Iraqi fighter pilots stationed here before Operation Iraqi Freedom had lunch with American pilots and took pictures in front of an aircraft they had flown against for more than a decade. Colonel Dubie is the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing director of staff. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Heather Norris)

Tiger by the tale

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Airman 1st Class John Purser sits in a vintage P-40 Warhawk in a hangar here during a Flying Tiger reunion June 1 to 6. The Flying Tigers were originally known as the American Volunteer Group that was recruited in 1941 to help China defeat Japan. The group's Chinese supporters referred to them as the Flying Tigers, and the Tigers evolved into the 23rd Fighter Group in 1942. Airman Purser is assigned to the 23rd Maintenance Squadron at Pope Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cassandra J. Locke)