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Ellsworth launches social media sites

People can now visit Ellsworth Air Force Base on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
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Air Combat Command social media access begins May 1

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Starting May 1, Airmen can access social media websites, like Twitter, from Air Combat Command computers. The move is part of a Department of Defense directive, which highlights the capabilities of social media and allows Airmen to tell the ACC story.
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Helping Haiti

NORFOLK, Va. -- Members of Virginia Task Force Two, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and aircrew from the 16th Airlift Squadron load relief supplies onto a C-17 Globemaster III, Jan. 15, 2010, at Chambers Field, Naval Station Norfolk, Va. The Virginia Beach-based FEMA urban search and rescue team departed for earthquake-stricken Haiti on the 437th Airlift Wing C-17 to support ongoing relief operations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Ed Ekpoudom)
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Helping Haiti

NORFOLK, Va. -- A 437th Airlift Wing C-17 Globemaster III from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., takes off from Chambers Field, Naval Station Norfolk, Va., Jan. 15, 2010. The C-17 carried cargo and members of Virginia Task Force Two, a Federal Emergency Management Agency urban search and rescue team based in Virginia Beach, Va., to support ongoing relief operations in earthquake-stricken Haiti. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Ed Ekpoudom)
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Helping Haiti

NORFOLK, Va. -- A 437th Airlift Wing C-17 Globemaster III from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., departs for earthquake-stricken Haiti from Chambers Field, Naval Station Norfolk, Va., Jan. 15, 2010. The C-17 carried cargo and members of Virginia Task Force Two, a Federal Emergency Management Agency urban search and rescue team based in Virginia Beach, Va., to support ongoing relief operations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Ed Ekpoudom)
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Helping Haiti

NORFOLK, Va. -- Members of Virginia Task Force Two, Federal Emergency Management Agency, load relief supplies onto a C-17 Globemaster III Jan. 15, 2010, at Chambers Field, Naval Station Norfolk, Va. The Virginia Beach-based FEMA urban search and rescue team departed for earthquake-stricken Haiti on the 437th Airlift Wing C-17 to support ongoing relief operations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Ed Ekpoudom)
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Helping Haiti

NORFOLK, Va. -- A member of Virginia Task Force Two, Federal Emergency Management Agency, prepares to load supplies onto a C-17 Globemaster III Jan. 15, 2010, at Chambers Field, Naval Station Norfolk, Va. The Virginia Beach-based FEMA urban search and rescue team departed for earthquake-stricken Haiti on the 437th Airlift Wing C-17 to support ongoing relief operations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Ed Ekpoudom).
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Gen. William M. Fraser III assumes command of Air Combat Command

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Gen. William M. Fraser III, commander of Air Combat Command, delivers his first speech to Langley Airmen after the change-of-command ceremony Sept. 10. General Fraser came from the Pentagon, where he served as the Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. He was selected to command ACC after Gen. John D.W. Corley announced his retirement in May. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Dana Hill)
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A simulation

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Airman 1st Class Brendan Davis, an Aerospace Physiology Apprentice with the 1st Aerospace Medicine Squadron, gives instruction to U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Maintenance Technician students from Elizabeth City, N.C., Coast Guard Station in the altitude chamber during chamber training on March 23. While in the altitude chamber students are exposed to atmospheric conditions at 25,000 feet. Without the aid of an oxygen mask they experience symptoms of hypoxia, an oxygen deficiency of the tissue and blood cells that causes impairment of function at high altitudes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers)
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A simulation

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Airman Larry Kohl (left), a U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Maintenance Technician student from Elizabeth City Coast Guard Station, try's to speak to fellow students while performing a mask test during altitude chamber training on March 23. While in the altitude chamber students are exposed to atmospheric conditions at 25,000 feet. Without the aid of an oxygen mask they experience symptoms of hypoxia, an oxygen deficiency of the tissue and blood cells that causes impairment of function at high altitudes. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers)
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A simulation

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Airman 1st Class Brendan Davis (left), an Aerospace Physiology Apprentice with the 1st Aerospace Medicine Squadron, takes Airman Paul Jaquish, a United States Coast Guard Aviation Maintenance Technician student from Elizabeth City, N.C., Coast Guard Station, through a coriolis illusion exercise. Allowing him to feel the overwhelming illusion of change in direction while going through a prolonged turn during Altitude Chamber Training on March 23. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers)
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Birds not welcome

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Biologist Tom Olexa, shoots pyrotechnics in front of the runway here to disperse a flock of birds before a pair of F-22 Raptors (background) take off. Wet areas around the runway attract all sorts of wildlife, including birds, which pose a hazard to launching aircraft. Mr. Olexa works with the 1st Fighter Wing's Bird and Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard team, known as BASH.
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Birds not welcome

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Cone devices are placed on peer poles near the airfield here where birds would perch, loof or roost. They are placed by the BASH team, which stands for Bird and Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard, to lower the bird activity. This in turn lowers the chances of bird strikes with aircraft.
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Birds not welcome

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Spiny metal strips are tools placed on any device near the airfield here where birds would perch, loof or roost. They are placed by the BASH team, which stands for Bird and Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard, to prevent bird strikes with aircraft.
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Security

Senior Airman David Covel, a Pararecuemen from the 58th Rescue Squadron stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada holds security while waiting for extraction from an urban training facility July 13 in Playas, NM during Exercise Angel Thunder 2007. Angel Thunder is a Combat Search and Rescue exercise designed to provide realistic CSAR Task Force training that tests theater spin-up capabilities and examines the integration of all Air Force assets in mission planning procedures and mission execution.
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Independence

Airmen and their families look on as fireworks shoot over Heritage Park during the Fourth of July Celebration at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz.
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Subzero

Airman Shaina Smith, 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, waits for a pilot crew for a B-52H Stratofortress here on Jan. 8. Airman Smith and the rest of her crew worked though harsh sub below temperatures and gusts of wind up to 50 knots.
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Tank operator

A Canadian CV90-40C tank operator prepares to leave a forward deployed location Sept 12 during the Bold Quest Exercise at the National Training Center at Fort. Irwin in Ca. The Bold Quest Exercise, which takes place at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and Fort. Irwin, is a coalition exercise initiated to test new communication technology that will allow coalition air and ground troops to identify friendly forces and enemy targets more precisely. Increasing combat effectiveness and decreasing the likelihood of fratricide between coalition countries.
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50 meters

Airman 1st Class Seth Novak competed at this years United States Air Forces in Europe international swim competition, placing first in the 50-meter freestyle, second in the 100-meter freestyle and 1st in a 4-by-100-meter freestyle Sep. 6-14, 2007. Airman Novak was featured in the Valdosta Daily Times for his achievements.
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VBall

Chief Master Sergeants compete in a volleyball game against the Airman Leadership School class here October 30. The Chiefs versus ALS volleyball game is held before airmen graduate from the six-week long course which develops leadership and supervisory capabilities.
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