Capt. Dennis Zabka checks his mask for leaks at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Aug. 27, 2012. Zabka, a pilot assigned to the 11th Bomb Squadron. is competing in the Global Strike Challenge.
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jeff Walston
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Erick Bartels uses an Alaris Medsystem III infusion pump to check the flow of liquid on lines of IV bags at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Aug. 15, 2011. Bartels is a biomedical equipment technician assigned to the Medical Logistics Flight of the 779th Medical Support Squadron.
U.S. Air Force photo by Val Gempis
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At first glance, the upcoming Air Force Week in New York City seems like an odd bedfellow. The most congested city in America, with more than 8 million people, speaking 800 different languages, New York seems to be an area made up of small cultural enclaves with immigrants from around the globe….
A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker cargo aircraft assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing refuels a German air force Tornado aircraft July 17, 2012, over Germany. The 351st Air Refueling Squadron routinely refueled aircraft of NATO allies.
DoD photo by Senior Airman Rachel Waller, U.S. Air Force / Released
The United States Air Force Honor Guard Drill Team competes during the Joint Service Drill Team Exhibition at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., April 14, 2012. The Air Force honor guard bested all four of the armed services as well as the Merchant Marine Academy.
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Perry Aston
Staff Sgt. William Carlson, a weapons loader assigned to the 451st Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, performs maintenance on an F-16 Fighting Falcon bomb carriage.
Personnel are deployed from McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Swamp Fox F-16′s, pilots, and support personnel began their Air Expeditionary Force deployment early April to take over flying missions for the air tasking order and provide close air support for troops on the ground in Afghanistan.
U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Caycee Cook (DVIDS)
A soldier in the 74th Motorized Battalion in the Slovenian Army finds cover and watches for the opposing force as part of a deliberate attack exercise during the Immediate Response 2012 (IR12) training event held in Slunj, Croatia on Wednesday, May 30, 2012.
IR12 is a multinational tactical field training exercise that will involve more than 700 personnel primarily from the U.S. Army Europe’s 2nd Calvary Regiment and Croatian armed forces, with contingents from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia. Macedonia and Serbia will send observers to the exercise.
The exercise is a part of USEUCOM’s joint training and exercise program designed to enhance joint and combined interoperability between the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Croatian Armed Forces and partner nations, and will help prepare participants to operate successfully in a joint, multinational, interagency, integrated environment.
U.S. Army photo by SPC Lorenzo Ware / Released (DVIDS)
While flying over Colorado a B-2 Stealth Bomber from Whiteman Air Force Base, MO, moves into position for a mid-air refueling via the boom of a KC-135R Stratotanker from the 128th Air Refueling Wing, Milwaukee on 09 May, 2012. The B-2 Stealth bomber and the KC-135 crews conducted the aerial refueling to maintain mission readiness standards.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Jeremy M. Wilson (DVIDS)
Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians from the 380th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, tread water during water training in Southwest Asia, May 7, 2012. Members of the EOD flight use water training as part of their physical training routine to stay in top physical condition and stay trained.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Sara Csurilla) (DVIDS)
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. James Routt an HC-130P pilot with the 550th Special Operations Squadron, waits to taxi after transporting two injured Afghan local nationals to Khandahar Airfield, Afghanistan for treatment, April 9, 2012.
Lt. Col. Routt is currently the oldest active pilot in the Air Force and is augmenting for the 71st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron. The mission of the 71st EQRS is to provide personnel recovery, casualty evacuation and aeromedical evacuation assets to hostile locations. The 71st EQRS is the only fixed wing aircraft squadron dedicated to medical evacuation missions in Afghanistan.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Greg C. Biondo (DVIDS)
