Print article Frosty’s made of it, kids play in it and Christmas carolers sing about it. And now we know bomb blasts can be hushed with it. That’s what a team of innovative airmen in Alaska confirmed recently during a four-day experiment into how effective snow is at dampening dangerous shockwaves from ordnance blasts. Ordnance teams normally use sand or water barriers for that job. The tests revealed that charges surrounded by bags filled with snow significantly reduced pressure waves emanating from the blast. That knowledge may provide an option to commanders looking for the best blast protection for their people and installations once snow barriers become available, said Air Force Master Sgt. Chance Rupp, an explosive ordnance disposal flight chief at Eielson Air Force Base. His idea kindled the experiment.
5 As the verdict in the former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin trial was announced, U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 133rd Airlift Wing were staged and ready to secure the Minneapolis Convention Center.
The Airmen were just 50 pieces to a 3,000-piece puzzle, activated to support Operation Safety Net, a unified effort between multiple Minnesota law enforcement organizations and the Minnesota National Guard. Guardsmen were pre-staged throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul to protect lives, property, and the right to peacefully protest.
“The Army is better suited to assist law enforcement due to their training and equipment capabilities,” said U.S. Air Force Maj. Casey Brown, Officer-In-Charge of team Bravo, 133rd Airlift Wing. “Conducting this security mission to ensure their forces were focused on supporting law enforcement was a perfect assignment for this team.”
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Efforts have been underway for almost a month to bring the
COVID-19 vaccine to people at the state-led, federally-supported Medgar Evers College Community Vaccination Center in Brooklyn.
For Brooklynites who are most comfortable speaking a foreign language or do not speak English as their primary language, they can turn to some of the deployed U.S. Air Force Airmen of the 335th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron, or EMDOS, to help translate.
When the approximately 140 Airmen were chosen to deploy and support the CVC, the ability to translate was not a deciding factor in their process. Some Airmen from the 335th EMDOS can assist community members who speak Spanish, Creole, Russian and Mandarin. However, Senior Airman Can Liu, a general purpose Airman assigned to the 335th EMDOS, is the only Airman on-site who can speak Mandarin.
Efforts have been underway for almost a month to bring the
COVID-19 vaccine to people at the state-led, federally-supported Medgar Evers College Community Vaccination Center in Brooklyn.
For Brooklynites who are most comfortable speaking a foreign language or do not speak English as their primary language, they can turn to some of the deployed U.S. Air Force Airmen of the 335th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron, or EMDOS, to help translate.
When the approximately 140 Airmen were chosen to deploy and support the CVC, the ability to translate was not a deciding factor in their process. Some Airmen from the 335th EMDOS can assist community members who speak Spanish, Creole, Russian and Mandarin. However, Senior Airman Can Liu, a general purpose Airman assigned to the 335th EMDOS, is the only Airman on-site who can speak Mandarin.