Portraits in Courage - SMSgt Berryhill

Senior Master Sgt. Dale P. Berryhill poses next to an aircraft while deployed to Iraq. (U.S. Air Force file photo)

Portraits in Courage -- CMSgt Bahm

Chief Master Sgt. Phillip Bahm (then a senior master sergeant) chats with an Airman on the ramp of an MC-130E. The chief was decorated for recovering an MC-130E aircraft during a daring mission in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force file photo)

Operation Iraqi Freedom

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Airmen 1st Class Erick Campos and Nicholas Cross, 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron Aerial Port Flight cargo processors, import cargo into a computer program for processing Mar. 14. Cargo processors also inspect pallets and loose cargo that comes through Balad. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Nathan Doza)

Bilateral Training

Private (Pte) Francois Brisson, a crew chief from Montreal, Quebec, straps Capt. James Kettle into his Canadian Forces CF-18 Feb. 22 at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla. The three-week exercise pitted Canadian CF-18s against F-16s from Homestead’s 93rd Fighter Squadron. Also, Canadian fighter pilot students participated in the annual exercise for the first time in its history. (Canadian Air Force photo/Cpl. J.A. Wilson)

AF Reserve Pipe Band marches in NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade

The U.S. Air Force Reserve Pipe Band marches along Fifth Avenue past St. Patrick's Cathedral on March 17, 2007, during the annual St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City. Earlier that morning, the pipe band appeared on the Good Morning America show. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman First Class Timothy Chacon)

AF Reserve Band pipes in leaders

From right: Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Irish Prime Minster Bertie Ahern, President George Bush and Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern ascend the outside steps of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C., on March 15, 2007, while the Band of the Air Force Reserve Pipe Band performs traditional Celtic music. Since 1993 the Air Force Reserve Pipe Band has been invited to perform on Saint Patrick's Day for the president of the United States and the prime minister of Ireland during their annual lunch. This year the pipe band was also invited to perform in the New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman First Class Timothy Chacon)

Reserve Airmen contributing to medical mission in Iraq

Major Laurie Turner takes Pfc. David Kendrick's blood pressure reading at Balad Air Base, Iraq. Major Turner is deployed from the 920th Aeromedical Staging Squadron at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Private Kendrick is deployed to Iraq from Fort Carson, Colo. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nathan Doza)

Reserve Airmen contributing to medical mission in Iraq

Master Sgt. James Brown helps carry a patient aboard a waiting Air Force Reserve C-17 Globemaster III for a medical evacuation flight from Balad Air Base, Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, for further treatment. Sergeant Brown is assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group and is from the Air Force Reserve's 920th Aeromedical Staging Squadron at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. The Globemaster is from March Air Reserve Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nathan Doza)

Reserve Airmen contributing to medical mission in Iraq

Captain Laura Reitz cares for Army National Guard Private 1st Class Tommy Fowler a wounded Soldier at the 332nd Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility in Balad Air Base, Iraq. Captain Reitz is from the Air Force Reserve's 920th Aeromedical Staging Squadron at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. She is also an open heart recovery nurse at the Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Fla. Private Fowler is with the Delta Company, 2nd Battalion/124th Infantry. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nathan Doza)

Checking credentials

GRISSOM AIR RESERVE BASE, Ind., -- Tim Spangler, 434th Security Forces Squadron, checks the identification of Cathy Clark, 434th Communications Squadron as she enters the base at the North Gate. Grissom's team of civilians, active duty (AGR) and traditional reservists all worked together to help the 434th SFS win the Air Force Outstanding Security Forces Reserve Unit Award for 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Doug Hays)

442nd Fighter Wing's "holy warrior"

Chaplain, Captain Jim Buckman, is reaching out to members of the 442nd Fighter Wing in his role as the wing's newest chaplain. Chaplain Buckman was in the Army National Guard before transferring to the wing last year. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)

Wedding bells

Wing chaplain, Capt. Jim Buckman, right, performs a marriage ceremony for Staff Sgt. Sandra Rougeau and Senior Master Sgt. Morris Findley Jan. 6 in the 442nd Fighter Wing conference room. Both sergeants are reservists in the 442nd FW. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Tommy Talbert)