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  • WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Master Sgt. Ty Walk, 445th Maintenance Squadron aerospace repair craftsman, makes repairs to the floor in the cargo area of a C-17 Globemaster III during a routine Home Station Check inspection Feb. 21. (U.S. Air Force photo/Stacy Vaughn)

    Home Station Check inspections keep wing's C-17s in the air

    Taking care of the C-17 Globemaster III entails more than just an occasional washing, oil change and spot check of the plane. It takes the experience of a diverse maintenance team to go over the aircraft inch-by-inch, checking every nook and cranny for defects.Every 120 days, a Home Station Check or HSC inspection is required to keep the C-17
  • Senior Master Sgt. Martha Roy chats with LifeSouth blood mobile technician Kenall Summers while making her first donation in five years. (Air Force Photo by By Tech. Sgt. Jay Ponder)

    Survivor not taking gift of giving for granted

    When one experiences a traumatic life event, it can either strengthen or weaken personal resolve to face such an event's challenges and give hope and inspiration to others.As Airmen of the 908th trained and took care of regular military requirements during the January UTA, few were aware of one Airman's overcoming one of life's greatest ordeals and
  • Staff Sgt. Nicholas Gibson, a pararescueman with the 308th Rescue Squadron at Patrick Air Force Base, plans to summit Mt. Everest with an all Air Force team as part of the USAF Seven Summits Challenge. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Anna-Marie Wyant)

    Reserve pararescueman aims to climb Mt Everest

    Staff Sgt. Nicholas Gibson has spent most of his life in Florida, one of the flattest states in the nation with its highest natural point reaching 345 feet -- the lowest high point of any state in the U.S. While he loves the sunshine state and calls it home, Gibson has always had a desire to reach higher ground. As a teenager, Gibson said he began
  • Tech. Sgt. Lakesha Bailey, 507th Air Refueling Wing command post controller and training manager works from her console here Feb 14. The 137th ARW, Oklahoma Air National Guard and 507th ARW’s “Sooner Control” command post is the only joint guard and reserve command post with a nuclear mission in the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Senior Airman Mark Hybers)

    Guard, Reserve Command Post, a unique epicenter

    It's 12:30 a.m. in the command post and a radio mounted on Tech. Sgt. Lakesha Bailey's console lights up and blasts without warning thru the speaker, "Exercise, Exercise, Exercise, Sooner Control, this is Okie 34 we are declaring an in-flight emergency and request emergency personnel and fire rescue at runway three zero zero. We have four souls on
  • Master Sgt. Scott Huling and his wife Kanya pose for a picture after finding out Huling had been selected for Senior Master Sgt. Huling would be killed in a landslide while protecting his son from falling debris on Mother’s Day 1999. Kanya would go on to join the Air Force Reserve. (Courtesy Photo)

    Wife finds Air Force Reserve career after husband's death

    During a family hike on Mother's day 1999 Kanya Huling, her husband and three children heard what sounded like helicopters overhead but was actually the mountain shearing off in a landslide that would kill six people and injured more than 30. "After the debris stopped falling I looked over and saw my husband, Scott, hunched over our 2-year old son,
  • Sidney DeLibero, daughter of a 446th Airlift Wing Reservist, practices her kick at a taekwondo school in Edgewood, Wash., Oct. 17. DiLibero became the world's youngest taekwondo black belt at 6 years old Sept. 20, according to the World Taekwondo Headquarters in South Korea. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. Rachael Garneau)

    Reservist's daughter is youngest blackbelt

    The tenets of taekwondo are pretty similar to the Air Force's core values: courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self control and indomitable spirit. One McChord Reservist's daughter followed all of those tenets to become the world's youngest taekwondo black belt, and it all started because of a deployment.Staff Sgt. Scott DeLibero is a traditional
  • Staff Sgt. Sara Bolin, 920th Rescue Wing, aircrew equipment flight technician, adjusts a life preserver unit on Air Force Junior ROTC cadet Coleton Wells prior to his flight on a HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopter. Wells spent the day touring the 920th RQW and learning the ins and outs of rescue. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Peter Dean)

    Cadet, cancer patient realizes dream of flying through Rescue Wing

    In between chemotherapy treatments a 16-year-old Air Force Junior ROTC student joined the Air Force Reserve Command's 920th Rescue Wing for the thrill of flight. "Absolutely amazing, best thing I've done in a long time," Coleton Wells said as he disembarked from one of the 920th RQW's HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopters.Zachary Kalish, Wells' best
  • Dawn Fiore, the wife a Reserve pilot assigned to the 326th Airlift Squadron, Dover Air Base, Del., strikes a fighting stance Nov. 16, 2012, at the base fitness center. Fiore discreetly battled multiple sclerosis for eight years until an online feature interview in 2012, when she went public about wrangling her medical illness with fitness and martial arts. After being diagnosed with MS, Fiore went on to earn a first degree black belt in Taekwondo and practices other martial arts, including Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo and Haidong Gumdo. (U.S. Air Force photo/Roland Balik)

    The fight of her life: Reservist's wife battles MS with mixed martial arts

    Dawn Fiore has been studying martial arts for 17 years, but it was only last year she went public about her toughest opponent - - multiple sclerosis. The wife of Maj. Christian Fiore, a Reserve C-17 pilot assigned to the 326th Airlift Squadron here, was diagnosed with MS in 2005 and can still remember what she was doing when she felt her first
  • An E-3 Sentry moves to within 50 feet of a KC-135 from the 507 ARW recently as the two planes prepare for an aerial refueling over the cloudy skies of St. Louis.

    Highly skilled dance performed at 25,000 feet

    When most people think about skillful dancing, the thought of a couple moving gracefully across a dance floor comes to mind. If you are part of the KC-135 Stratotanker refueling crew, you're probably picturing two planes less than 50 feet apart bouncing around at 25,000 feet while trying to connect a refueling boom into what appears to be a golf
  • Air Force Reservist, Tech. Sgt. Altrameise Myers, information management craftsman, 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., poses with a photo of her late son AJ who passed away at 17 years old, Sept. 30, 2012. Myers' grief helped to melt away her stage fright which led to an invite to audition for the Air Force's highly coveted Air Force Tops in Blue entertainment troupe. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

    Grief melts fear, leads Air Force Reservist to worldwide talent audition

    A package in the mail containing a T-shirt renewed hope for one talented Air Force Reservist in the 920th Rescue Wing. Tech. Sgt. Altrameise Myers, information management craftsman, was a little confused when she received a package in the mail with a lone T-shirt emblazoned with the words--Mission Audition. It came from the Air Force's highly
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