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Langley Airmen graduate NCO academy
April 17, 2008
1st CS powers to base championship
April 15, 2008
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Ray Merrow of the 1st Communications Squadron and Jeff Yager from Air Combat Command Intelligence Directorate pair off during the intramural bowling league championship tournament April 3 at Langley’s Bowling Center. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Christopher L. Ingersoll)
Loadin' up
April 8, 2008
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Staff Sgt. Tiegh Tinsley of the 1st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron checks to ensure a missile is properly secured during a weapons loading competition April 4. The weapons loading competition, commonly referred to as “loadio,” is conducted to sharpen the skills of weapons loaders to ensure that their job is done quickly and without mistakes. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Christopher L. Ingersoll)
And the winners are ...
April 8, 2008
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Mr. Raymond Wiltshire, Air Force Sergeants Association Division 3 president (left) and retired Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Robert Gaylor (right) present Airman 1st Class Ryan Rowden,10th Intelligence Squadron supply technician, the award of AFSA Division 3 First Term Airman of the Year. The award was presented at AFSA’s Annual Awards and Installation Banquet in Newport News, Va., April 5. The banquet concluded the three-day AFSA Convention and Professional Airman's Conference. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. April Wickes)
Seven Airmen graduate FTAC
April 2, 2008
Nineteen Airmen graduate FTAC
April 2, 2008
New munitions support facility opens
April 1, 2008
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Langley troops await the opening of the munitions admistrative support facility during a ribbon cutting ceremony here March 28. Ammunitions troops will work out of the new administrative building when not performing maintenance or inspections. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Cecil C. McCloud)
PTSD: Putting the pieces back together
March 31, 2008
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Dr. Candice Monson, Veterans Affairs National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome women’s health services division deputy director, speaks to mental health professionals at the Langley Community Center March 27. Professionals from Langley, the Hampton VA Hospital, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Norfolk substance abuse program, Fort Lee, Va., and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., attended the three-day conference, which covered a variety of topics regarding PTSD. The conference focused on cognitive processing therapy, an approach to helping PTSD patients, which is geared toward servicemembers who are at high risk for trauma. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Chase Skylar DeMayo)
Combat truckers: Airmen make history one mile at a time
March 31, 2008
SOUTHWEST ASIA – The Air Force 2T1 vehicle operator career field is comprised of 2,363 Airmen, 268 of them are women. These 70th Medium Truck Detachment ‘Scorpions’ and the 424th MTD ‘Centurions’ are eight of 26 female vehicle operators currently deployed with the 586th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron at an Army camp in the Persian Gulf Region. These women circumnavigate a 31,000-plus-mile stretch of highways in Iraq and the Persian Gulf Region delivering life and mission-sustaining materials to U.S. joint-service and coalition ground forces located at all the forward operating bases in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O’Connor)
Security forces Airman receives Bronze Star
March 25, 2008
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. – Brig. Gen. Mark Barrett, 1st Fighter Wing commander, presents Tech. Sgt. Douglas Rose, 1st Security Forces Squadron, with the bronze star medal, first oak leaf cluster, March 25 for his accomplishments while serving with the Joint Task Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from December 2006 to October 2007. Since 2005, the 1st Security Forces Squadron has had six Bronze Stars awarded to members of its unit for dedicated service in Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers)