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By Tech. Sgt. Callie Ware, 307th Bomb Wing / Published April 16, 2021 Members of the 307th Bomb Wing Development and Training Flight post for a photo at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, April 4, 2021. The DTF prepares trainees for Air Force basic military training through hands-on instruction, classroom training, physical training and team-building exercises. (courtesy photo) U.S. Air Force Maj. Jacob Wilwert, assigned to the 93rd Bomb Squadron, gives trainees in the 307th Bomb Wing Development and Training Flight a static tour of a B-52 Stratofortress at Barksdale Air Fo...

On Feb. 6, 2021, Senior Airman Louis Shackelford’s civilian and military worlds collided. “I recently received my first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during the February Unit Training Assembly (UTA). It was a surreal experience. I was sitting in my Air Force medical unit, in uniform, being injected with a life-saving vaccine brought to fruition by experts and scientists at my civilian job,” Shackelford said. “It was a beautiful collision of the worlds in which I exist. I cannot remember ever feeling prouder to be both an airman and public health research professional.” Every ...

By Maj Candice Allen, 446th Airlift Wing Public Affairs / Published April 15, 2021 JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - Hundreds of toys were available to Reserve Citizen Airmen at the Baby Bundles + Kits for Kids event hosted by the 446th Airlift Wing Women’s Council April 10 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. Expecting Reserve moms and dads also received baby diapers filled with items needed to care for a newborn. Women’s Council hosted the event honoring the Month of the Military Child. (Air Force photo by Lt. Col. Carrianne Ekberg) JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -...

By Senior Airman Brittany Wich, 433rd Airlift Wing / Published April 13, 2021 The 433rd Civil Engineer Squadron and Joint Base San Antonio Fire Department firefighters brush and wash the contaminates off of firefighters in hazardous material suits during a joint training exercise at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, April 8, 2021. The 433rd CES and JBSA Fire Department firefighters wore mission oriented protective posture gear and HAZMAT suits to protect themselves against simulated contaminates from patients and personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brittan...

By Tech. Sgt. Jonathan McCallum, 919th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs / Published April 13, 2021 Senior Airman Chris Peterson, 919th Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, tightens bolts on a new propeller mounted on a C-146A Wolfhound, using a torque wrench March 23, at Duke Field, Florida. Peterson is part of a special training program designed to create maintenance specialists to operate interchangeably in deployed locations, keeping crews smaller and saving the Air Force money and manpower. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jonathan McCallu...