GORUCK challenge

Members break for a moment of silence to remember the fallen during the GORUCK Cohesion Challenge Sept. 11, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. This elite team-building event, led by a Special Forces veteran, featured military inspired challenges and missions. Only 24 out of the original 27 completed all obstacles. Eglin is the fifth base to complete the Team Cohesion Challenge. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Jasmin Taylor)

GORUCK Challenge Portraits

Diego Larmaco carries a log during the GORUCK Cohesion Challenge Sept. 11, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. This elite team-building event, led by a Special Forces veteran, featured military inspired challenges and missions. Only 24 out of the original 27 completed all obstacles. Eglin is the fifth base to complete the Team Cohesion Challenge, which is modeled after special operations training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Jasmin Taylor)

GORUCK Challenge Portraits

Thamas Church low crawls through the sand during the GORUCK Cohesion Challenge Sept. 11, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. This elite team-building event, led by a Special Forces veteran, featured military inspired challenges and missions. Only 24 out of the original 27 completed all obstacles. Eglin is the fifth base to complete the Team Cohesion Challenge, which is modeled after special operations training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Jasmin Taylor)

Citizen Airmen win in Air Force Media Contest

Published March 19, 2015

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. --

Airmen assigned to two Air Force Reserve Command public affairs offices took first-place awards in the 2014 Air Force Media Contest.

Tech. Sgt. Jasmin Taylor of the 919th Special Operations Wing, Duke Field, Florida, was named the Outstanding New Writer and the Outstanding New Photographer. The “On-final” from the 507th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs Office, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, won the Web-based Publication category.

Contributors to the “On-final” are Maj. Jon Quinlan, Senior Airman Mark Hybers, Staff Sgt. Charles Taylor, Staff Sgt. Lauren Gleason, Staff Sgt. Caleb Wanzer.

Two other reservists placed in the Air Force contest.

Tech. Sgt. Mark Orders-Woempner, 434th ARW, Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana, placed second in the Graphics Layout & Design category. Capt. Bernie Kale, 512th Airlift Wing Public Affairs, Dover AFB, Delaware, finished third in the News Photography category.

Results of the Air Force contest were announced March 13 by Brig. Gen. Kathleen A. Cook, director of Air Force Public Affairs.

Taylor and the “On-final” will represent the Air Force in the Department of Defense’s Thomas Jefferson competition. Results of the DOD contest are expected to be announced April 17.

USAF. (U.S. Air Force Graphic by Rosario "Charo" Gutierrez)