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The Thor weather forecasting supercomputer acquired in May 2017 by Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., generates thunderstorm likelihood and potential, and compiles many other weather scenarios that could impact military operations. When purchased, Thor was ranked the 150th most powerful supercomputer on earth, and is now located at Offutt AFB, Neb. (U.S. Air Force Graphic by Benjamin Newell)


Thor Weather Supercomputer

The Thor weather forecasting supercomputer acquired in May 2017 by Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., generates thunderstorm likelihood and potential, and compiles many other weather scenarios that could impact military operations. When purchased, Thor was ranked the 150th most powerful supercomputer on earth, and is now located at Offutt AFB, Neb. (U.S. Air Force Graphic by Benjamin Newell)

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Col. Philip Carpenter, Senior Materiel Leader, Simulators Program Office, provided opening remarks during a recent simulation and training forum. The program office is responsible for executing a $1 billion annual budget for over 56 programs at eight Major Commands with a portfolio of 2300+ training devices/configurations worldwide. (U.S. Air Force photo / Simulators Program Office)
Danielle Trevino, Environmental Protection specialist, top left, helps children from the Youth Center build a monarch waystation. The Natural Resources division is creating two monarch waystations at different locations to help provide habitats necessary for monarch conservation. (U.S. Air Force photo/Stacey Geiger)
Raya Mills, 10, plants a monarch-friendly plant for the monarch waystation. While learning about the importance of preserving the pollinator population, children at the youth center helped build a monarch waystation. They will then maintain the waystation throughout the year. (U.S. Air Force photo/Stacey Geiger)
With the help of the 88th Civil Engineering Group’s Natural Resources division, Junior Sanabia, 9, builds a monarch waystation by planting native plants to attract monarch butterflies. Monarch waystations are natural habitats created with specific plant species that monarch butterflies need to survive. (U.S. Air Force photo/Stacey Geiger)
Members of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Fire Department attend a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder/Peer Support program training on June 6. Firefighters participated in a two-day course to learn how to be a peer supporter for their counterparts when that person may not want to talk to the typical outlets such as a chaplain or supervisor. (U.S. Air Force photos/Stacey Geiger)
The Wright-Patterson AFB fire department employs approximately 80 staff members comprised of firefighters, inspectors, paramedics and dispatchers, assigned at one of the three fire stations on the installation. Ensuring emergency response time is quick, two fire stations are located in Area A and one in Area B. Along with responding to on-base incidents, the fire department also provides assistance to local fire departments under a mutual aid agreement. (U.S. Air Force photos/Stacey Geiger)
John Hemsley from the New York City Fire Department, Local 854, discusses ways to deal with stressful situations with the Wright-Patterson AFB firefighters. The firefighters attended a two-day Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder/Peer Support program training June 5-6. (U.S. Air Force photos/Stacey Geiger)
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base firefighters Brian Grubb, left, and Brice Morgan said after spending so much time with each other in the fire house, firefighters build a close bond with each other and know what’s going on in each other’s lives and are always there to support one other on and off duty. Grubb is also the president of the International Association of Firefighters Local F88 Union of Professional Fire Fighters of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photos/Stacey Geiger)
Spending many hours confined to the firehouse along with witnessing traumatic incidents on emergency calls can become stressors of the job of a firefighter. To help alleviate some of those stressors, firefighters attended a two-day Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder/Peer Support program training June 5-6. (U.S. Air Force photos/Stacey Geiger)
Tech. Sgt. Kevin Calloway, 71st Rescue Squadron HC-130J Combat King II loadmaster, throws a para-bundle out of the door of an HC-130J during Tiger Rescue IV, March 27, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Para-bundles are typically used to deliver medical supplies to pararescumen on the ground. The four-day exercise challenged Airmen from multiple rescue squadrons to bring the capabilities of the personnel recovery triad together to successfully complete rescue missions and maintain proficiency. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Janiqua P. Robinson)
Aircrew within a HC-130J Combat King II from the from the 71st Rescue Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Ga., performs an austere combat landing during Tiger Rescue IV, March 29, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The four-day exercise challenged Airmen from multiple rescue squadrons to bring the capabilities of the personnel recovery triad together to successfully complete rescue missions and maintain proficiency. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Janiqua P. Robinson)
Lt. Gen. Robert McMurry (center) commander of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and Chief Master Sgt. Michelle Thorsteinson-Richards (right) AFLCMC command chief, talk with Airmen from the Air Force Metrology and Calibration program. McMurry visited AFMETCAL to meet with employees, tour work sections and hold an All Call. (U.S. Air Force photo / Brian Brackens