SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Maj. Dan Brant recites the oath of enlistment after being promoted to lieutenant colonel by Col. Derrick Hoxie, Combined Air and Space Operations Center deputy director, as his wife Lindsey watches from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., via video teleconference April 30. Colonel Brant is deployed to the CAOC as the deputy director of Air Force Forces/A9 from Langley.(U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Christina M. Styer)