Zone sweep

Airmen First Class Joshua Lefevre and Jennifer Fuentes, both members of the 88th Medical Support Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, perform a post-attack damage assessment and security sweep following a simulated attack. The Airmen were participating in an employment exercise here May 13, part of the base preparations for an Operational Readiness Inspection. Wright-Patterson Medical Center Airmen frequently deploy in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and global humanitarian response missons. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)

Watchful eye

Carmen Riches, exercise program manager, 88th Air Base Wing Installation Exercise Program Office, and Lt. Col. Wendy Larson, 88th Air Base Wing chief of plans and programs, observe response by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Airmen to a simulated chemical attack during an exercise here May 13. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)

Where do you need help?

Col. Colleen Ryan, 88th Air Base Wing commander at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, reviews the exercise play area with Col. James Miner (left), 88th Mission Support Group commander, and Lt. Col. Scott Katz, 88th Mission Support Group deputy commander. Katz commanded a group of base Airmen simulated deployed to a forward operating location where they were subjected to conventional and chemical attacks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)

Combat arms

Tech. Sgt. Eric Ingram, 88th Security Forces Squadron, demonstrates proper weapons handling to Wright-Patterson Airmen participating in a base employment exercise May 13. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)

Buddy check MOPP2

Senior Master Sgt. Eric Turner, 516th Aeronautical Systems Group "buddy checks" the snaps on the back of Capt. Keith Larson's chemical warfare defense ensemble during a readiness exercise at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base May 13. Base Airmen responded to simulated conventional and chemical attacks at a forward operating location. Larson is assigned to the 478th Aeronautical Systems Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)

Zone crossover

Capt. Keith Larson, F-22 aircrew training program manager, 478th Aeronautical Systems Wing, and Senior Master Sgt. Eric Turner, C-17 logistics manager, 516th Aeronautical Systems Group cross into another zone representing a partition of a forward-deployed air base during an exercise May 13. The two were among base Airmen from Aeronautical Systems Center and across Wright-Patterson Air Force Base who responded to simulated conventional and chemical attacks exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)

Attention to detail

Staff Sgt. Michael Miller, information management specialist with the 88th Mission Support Group, records unexploded ordnance information following a mock attack. Miller was among Airmen from across Wright-Patterson Air Force Base participating in an exercise May 13 testing command and control procedures and response to conventional and chemical attacks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)

Status update

Staff Sgt. Michael Miller (right) briefs Lt. Col. Scott Katz, 88th Mission Support Group deputy commander, on status of the base following a mock enemy attack while Tech Sgt. Serena Truett looks on. Katz was serving as deployed base commander during an exercise May 13-14 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base designed to test response to conventional and chemical attacks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)

Battery backup

Gen. Bruce Carlson, Air Force Materiel Command commander, discusses the Power Distribution System Replacement Project for the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base telephone switching network with Staff Sgt. Thomas Troup, 88th Communications Squadron. Gen. Carlson toured 88th Air Base Wing facilities and met with base Airmen and employees May 8. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)

AFMC boss tours 88th Air Base Wing

Tech. Sgt. Christy Cavanaugh-Lawson, dorm manager with the 88th Civil Engineer Directorate, briefs Gen. Bruce Carlson, Air Force Materiel Command commander, during a tour of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base dormitories. Gen. Carlson observed 88th Air Base Wing missions and met Airmen and civilian employees across the installation May 8. (U.S. Air Force photo/Al Bright)

TACP tests new field equipment

Senior Airman Nicholas Halladay tries out new cocom-x communication equipment, which is one device that takes the place of three different radio systems, while Gregory Burnett gathers more equipment for testing May 5, 2008, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska during Northern Edge 08 exercise. Tactical Air Control Party Airmen are helping test new experimental equipment in the field. After several tests, they are providing feedback on how the equipment worked if any improvements could be made before the equipment will be used in combat situations years from now. Northern Edge is a joint training exercise hosted by Alaskan Command and is one of a series of U.S. Pacific Command exercises that prepare joint forces to respond to crises in the Asian Pacific region. Airman Halladay is a TACP assigned to Detachment 1, 3rd Air Support Operation Squadron from Fort Richardson, Alaska. Mr. Burnett is an Air Force Civilian from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Airman 1st Class Jonathan Snyder)

IPC

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio --From left Colonel Raymod Midkiff, Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District; Colonel Colleen Ryan, Commander, 88th Air Base Wing; David L. Hobson, U.S. Congressman, Ohio 7th District; James Clapper, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence; Colonel Karen CLeary, Commander, National Air and Space Intelligence Center; Michael Turner, U.S. Congressman, Ohio 3rd District; and Mr. Thomas Butler, President, Monarch Construction pause for a photo op during the ribbon cutting ceremony of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center's Intelligence Production Complex here on May 2. The ceremony included music from the USAF Band of Flight, a ribbon cutting, a plaque dedication and concluded with tours inside the new facility. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman John Albea)