Deployed Airman sets sights on marathon

James Scott and Kathryn L. Bass, 447th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, complete a recent 5K relay by passing the "baton," a toilet plunger. Scott is training for the 2007 U.S. Air Force Marathon at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force)

Deployed Airmen make a difference

Dr. (Lt. Col.) Peter DeRussy, a physician with the 445th Aeromedical Staging Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, performs a chest examination on a young Guatemalan patient during the New Horizons Medical Readiness Training Exercise April 14 through May 5 in San Marcos, Guatamala. The medical team treated more than 8,000 patients during their stay. (U.S. Air Force/Master Sgt. Chance Babin)

Flight surgeon monitors patient

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB -- Maj. (Dr.) Joseph Lawlor monitors a simulated patient onboard a C-17 Globemaster III. Five squadrons and about 80 medical personnel from California, Florida, Maryland and Georgia participated in the Air Force Reserve Aeromedical Evacuation Jamboree held April 28 and 29 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Major Lawlor is a flight surgeon with the 445th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, and is assigned to a Critical Care Air Transport Team or CCATT that closely monitors seriously ill or wounded patients. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. Ted Theopolos)

Kidney donation extends family reach

Jolene Smith donated a kidney five years ago after reading information on an organ donation Web site. Now, the non-appropriated funds analyst with the 88th Comptroller Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio says she is happy with her decision and claims to have two families: her immediate family and her kidney family. (Spencer P. Lane/U.S. Air Force)

Injured soldier gets Air Force physical therapy

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Senior Airman Chris Vaughn, a physical medicine technician at the Wright-Patterson Medical Center, helps Army Spc. Thomas Lewis with leg exercises April 13. Lewis was injured in a vehicle crash in Iraq. (U.S. Air Force/Spencer P. Lane)

Soldier injured in Iraq presented custom-carved cane

HUBER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Army Spc. Thomas Lewis listens as Bill Wright, president of the Huber Heights Senior Citizens Center, describes the crafting of his eagle-headed cane. (U.S. Air Force/Spencer P. Lane)

Rifle Match

Master Sgt. Stephen Hodges, 482nd Security Forces Squadron, demonstrates the kneeling position used during the Elementary Excellence in Competition Rifle Match at Wright-Patterson A.F.B, Ohio. Shooters had 45 seconds to shoot ten rounds each in the kneeling, standing, and sitting positions. They had one minute to shoot 20 rounds in the prone, or lying down, position. (U.S. Air Force photo/Dan Galindo)

Rifle Match

Master Sgt. Stephen Hodges, 482nd Security Forces Squadron, placed 11th out of 190 Airmen at the Elementary Excellence in Competition Rifle Match at Wright-Patterson A.F.B, Ohio. His score of 449 put him in the top ten percent, earning the bronze EIC Rifle Match medal. (U.S. Air Force photo/Dan Galindo)

Manas assists with humanitarian aid mission

Senior Master Sgt. Jacqueline Larrison and Senior Airman Michelle Henry, 376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron, were among the many Liberandos who came out to help load relief trucks with humanitarian cargo from the Slovak Republic to Kyrgyzstan. (Air Force Photo/Master Sgt. Daniel Nathaniel)

Manas assists with humanitarian aid mission

Senior Airman Adam Wyse, 376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron, Senior Lt. Temirbek Torobekov, Chief, Logistics Service, Ministry of Emergency Situations and 1st Lt. Pavel Tendetnik, 376th Air Expeditionary Wing Coalition Coordinator, form a human chain to load a truck with humanitarian goods from the Slovak Republic to Kyrgyzstan. (Air Force Photo/Master Sgt. Daniel Nathaniel)

Dayton Bombers Air Force Night

WRIGHT-STATE UNIVERSITY, Ohio -- Col. Colleen Ryan, 88th Air Base Wing commander at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, drops the ceremonial puck between Dayton Bomber defenseman Greg Labenski, left, and Wheeling Nailers forward Sean Collins, as Kevin Bovair, Tech. Sgt. Joe Bovair, 88th Security Forces Squadron, Chris Stanley, executive director of Fisher Nightengale Houses Inc., and Costa Papista, president of Dayton Bombers Hockey, watch. Special promotional jerseys Bombers team members wore were auctioned off after the game, raising $9,400 for the Fisher Nightingale Houses. The Bombers sent the crowd home happy with a 4-2 win over the Wheeling Nailers in East Coast Hockey League action. Air Force photo by Spencer P. Lane

Fired up for Fisher House

WRIGHT-STATE UNIVERSITY, Ohio -- Dayton Bombers goalie Terry Denike, No. 35, takes to the ice March 10 during pre-game introductions at the Ervin J. Nutter Center. The special promotional jerseys Denike and the rest of the Bombers wore were auctioned off after the game, raising $9,400 for the Fisher Nightingale Houses. The Bombers sent the crowd home happy with a 4-2 win over the Wheeling Nailers in East Coast Hockey League action. Air Force photo by Spencer P. Lane