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Combat Art Articles

  • In Their Care

    In this oil painting, Col. Clifford Zdanowicz, Jr., a dentist and 512th Aerospace Medicine Squadron Commander at Dover AFB and Navy HM1 Lisa-Marie Sasseville, Operational Health Support Unit, Dental Hygienist, provide dental services for a patient at the Burke County clinic site during the 2019 East

  • Ghost Over the Highway

    In February 1991, Citizen Airmen of the 711th Special Operations Squadron assigned to Air Force Reserve Command’s 919th Special Operations Wing, left their home station at Duke Field, Florida for combat in Operation DESERT STORM. After only a few days in theater, these Citizen Airmen found

  • Earth, Blood and Fire

    When civilian capability to fight the fires is exhausted, the National Inter-agency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho calls the US Air Force for help. That help arrives in the form of large, noisy, four-engine Air Force C-130 “Hercules” aircraft with big florescent orange numbers on them. Each of the

  • Your Wings are Waiting

    Training military aviators to fly, fight, and win has been a foundational skill since the birth of the Air Force on 1 August 1907 as the fledgling Aeronautical Division of the Army. Throughout the following century, pilot training has remained a complex process melding a person and machine into an

  • Senior Master Sgt. (ret.) Darby Perrin

    Heritage and Combat ArtistSenior Master Sgt. (ret.) Darby Perrin served as an artist for the Heritage and Combat Art Division for Air Force Reserve Command’s Office of History and Heritage, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.  In this position, he visually documented Reserve Citizen Airmen and their

  • 1st Lt. Katie "Kat" Justen

    Heritage and Combat Artist1st Lt. Katie “Kat” L. Justen is an artist for the Heritage and Combat Art Division for Air Force Reserve Command’s Office of History and Heritage, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.  In this position, she visually documents Reserve Citizen Airmen stories and culture in Total

  • Lt. Col. Warren Neary

    Lieutenant Col. Warren F. Neary serves as the Chief and artist in the Heritage and Combat Art Division for Air Force Reserve Command’s Office of History and Heritage, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

  • A Legacy of Airmen Innovation in Space Operations

    Highlighted in this painting are a few of today’s pioneers in military space operations to include General Bernard Schriever, the architect of the Air Force's military space program. Major General Frank Casserino, the father of the Air Force Reserve organization in support of the Air Force space