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TRADOC Winds ensemble earns 2012 Music Performance Team of the Year
May 14, 2013
The TRADOC Winds woodwind ensemble practices for an upcoming retirement ceremony May 8, 2013 at Fort Eustis, Va. The ensemble was recently awarded the 2012 Music Performance Team of the Year for the Woodwind Ensemble category. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt April Wickes/Released)
Israeli Defense Force visits JTF-CS, reinforces partnership
May 14, 2013
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jeff W. Mathis III, Joint Task Force Civil Support commander, speaks with Israeli Defense Force Maj. Gen. Yaakov Ayish, defense attaché to the U.S. and Canada, Israeli Defense Force Home Front Command, during a visit at Fort Eustis, Va., May 7, 2013. Ayish and his staff spent the day learning the wide variety of life-saving and sustaining response capabilities that JTF-CS oversees if ordered to respond to a catastrophic chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incident in the homeland. (DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Dietrick/Released)
Torch lighting kicks off 2013 Warrior Games
May 13, 2013
Paralympian gold medal winner Navy Lt. Bradley Snyder, with the help of Prince Harry and olympian Missy Franklin, light the official torch to begin the 2013 Warrior Games at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., May 11, 2013. From May 11-16, more than 200 wounded, ill and injured Service members and veterans from the U.S. Marines, Army, Air Force and Navy, as well as a team representing U.S. Special Operations Command and an international team representing the United Kingdom, will compete for the gold in track and field, shooting, swimming, cycling, archery, wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball at the U.S. Olympic Training Center and U.S. Air Force Academy. The military service with the most medals will win the Chairman's Cup. (U.S. Army photo by EJ Hersom/Released)
SecAF approves captain's board cancellation
May 13, 2013
Memorial miles: Langley Airmen run for the fallen
May 8, 2013
A Langley Airman plants an American flag in honor of a fallen Service member during the “Run for the Fallen” event in Hampton Roads, Va., May 2, 2013. Families of fallen Service members stood by their respective hero markers to thank the runners for their memorial run. (U.S. Air Force photo by Austin Harvill/Released)
Annual bird count serves dual mission at Langley
May 8, 2013
A Mockingbird rest on a fence post during the Annual Spring Bird Count on May 4, 2013 at Langley Air Force Base, Va. Out of the 761 birds counted during the event, 25 were Mocking birds. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Wickes/Released)
New dining facility opens to benefit AIT Soldiers on Fort Eustis
May 8, 2013
The 733rd Logistics Readiness Division opened a newly-constructed dining facility May 1, providing a convenient and much-needed update to benefit Fort Eustis' Advanced Individual Training Soldiers. Col. Dean Heitkamp, the 128th Aviation Brigade commander, said the “Warrior's Cafe” is “a significant improvement, both in terms of quality of facility and proximity to the campus,” and will provide a better experience for the brigade's AIT students. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jason J. Brown/Released)
Fort Eustis divers train local first responders
May 8, 2013
Ann Morse, Virginia Beach Marine Rescue Team diver and medical safety officer, participates in a neurological evaluation with Stephen Ryan, Federal Tech Hazards Rescue Unit diver, inside a hyperbaric chamber during a training course at Fort Eustis, May 2, 2013. The training taught divers and medical personnel from local and federal search and rescue dive teams basic dive first aid, also called "tender maneuvers." (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Wesley Farnsworth/Released)
Soldiers give back to community during local field day
May 8, 2013
Spc. Jeffrey Arnold, center, instructs children on how to make “pigs fly” during the George Green 42nd Annual Special Education Field Day, April 2, 2013 at John B. Todd Stadium in Newport News, Va. Arnold helped the children shoot toy pigs into the air using a parachute as one of the more than 35 events school children could participate in at the field day. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. April Wickes/Released)
Hagel initiatives take aim against sexual assault
May 8, 2013