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  • Airman carves out passion, boosts morale

    Growing up in a family of tradesmen, Nicholas learned the value of working with his hands at a young age. As the son of a construction worker and the grandson of a carpenter, he became inspired by their work and ventured to become just as self-sufficient as they were. While Nicholas is skilled in

  • Airmen perform bodywork, ensure capable aircraft

    Sandpaper scrapes along the wing of an MQ-9 Reaper. Debris drifts to the ground. The smell of chemical agents saturate the air. Squeals from an F-16 Fighting Falcon engine fill the temperature-controlled back shop. But, the Airmen are focused. There’s a job to be done – and it has to be done

  • Airmen fuel the fight

    A group of F-16CM Fighting Falcons take off from the foggy flightline. They soar above the clouds and into the airspace over the Atlantic Ocean, heading east until they can no longer see the land behind them. Despite the meticulous checklists run on aircraft before they take flight, the jets are

  • Wrestling with a deployment

    Staff Sgt. Raymond Drummer II, and his son Josiah Drummer, share a passion for the sport of wrestling. This passion serves as a link between father and son while Raymond Drummer II, 9th Maintenance Squadron aircraft fuels systems craftsman, is deployed to Southwest Asia with the 380th Expeditionary

  • Control tower tracks missions, ensures sky safety

    U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Chino Ross, right, 1st Operations Support Squadron air traffic controller, trains Senior Airman Patrick Taylor, 1st OSS air traffic controller, on air traffic control tower practices at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., Dec. 16, 2016. Patrick recently completed upgrade