New Air Force Recruits

Colonel Brad Space, 88 ABW commander, swears in new Air Force recruits during the first period break at the Dayton Gems Hockey game which was Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Appreciation Night. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ben Strasser)

Noah Geier

Honorary Captain Noah Geier waves the Dayton Gems flag as he heads the team to center ice. Noah is the son of Tech. Sgt. Thomas Geier who is currently deployed to Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ben Strasser).

Tech. Sgt. Mathew Kurian

Technical Sgt. Mathew Kurian shakes hands with Col. Brad Spacy, 88 ABW commander, and Chief Master Sgt. John Hoffman, 88 ABW command chief, at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Appreciation Night with the Dayton Gems Hockey at Hara Arena on January 29, 2010. Sergeant Kurian was one of the airmen recognized for his deployment to Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ben Strasser)

Airmen mentor Afghans at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital

Maj. Joey Burks, an operating room nurse mentor, watches as doctors clean the amputated leg of an Afghan National Policeman Jan. 30, 2010. The patient lost his leg by an improvised explosive device in Helmand Province. Major Burks is a mentor with the Medical Embedded Training Team for the Kandahar Regional Military Hospital on Camp Hero, Afghanistan, and is deployed from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Nancy Hooks/Released)

Airman 1st Class Gerard Cerameau

Airman 1st Class Gerard Cerameau waits on the next text message from his friend in Haiti, to give him updates on his family. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Ted Theopolos)

AMC continues aeromedical evacuation relief in Haiti

Maj. John Lynch, 88th Medical Group Critical Care Air Transport Team, prepares a 3-year-old earthquake victim for aeromedical evacuation from Port-au-Prince, Haiti to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Anastasia Wasem/Released)