Road Warrior X

A security forces Airman from F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. pauses while searching for opposing forces during the Road Warrior Exercise at Camp Guernsey, Wyo., Oct. 19, 2012. Airmen are taught to stop, look and listen while searching for possible threats. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Jarad A. Denton)

ANG heads to Antarctica

Master Sgt. Carmello Modesto loads equipment sleds destined for the U.S. Antarctic Program's South Pole research station into the back of an LC-130 Hercules at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Nov. 30, 2004. (U.S. Air Force photo/Benjamin Carr)

Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager

Retired United States Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager prepares to board an F-15D Eagle from the 65th Aggressor Squadron Oct. 14, 2012, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. In a jet piloted by Capt. David Vincent, 65th AGRS pilot, Yeager is commemorating the 65th anniversary of his historic breaking of the sound barrier flight Oct. 14, 1947, in the Bell X-1 rocket research plane named "Glamorous Glennis." Yeager was awarded the prestigious Collier Trophy in 1948 for this landmark aeronautical achievement. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

Archives

Dr. Pedro Loureiro checks a film reel at the automated search and retrieval system at the Defense Imagery Management Operations Center-Riverside, Calif., Oct. 9, 2012. Loureiro, the archivist at DIMOC-R, helped find a film reel containing clips of the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. The ASRS has about 280,000 analog tapes, 80,000 rells of 16mm and 35mm film and 40,000 negatives, slides and photos in storage. (U.S. Air Force photo/Val Gempis)

Power of Thor

Lt. Col. Jenns Robertson, Air and Space Power Strategist at the Air Force Research Institute, researches information for Theater History of Operations at Maxwell Air Force Base Aug. 17. THOR is database of bombs dropped from American military aircraft from World War One through current times. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Michael Voss)

Water rescue

Airmen aboard an HH-60 Pave Hawk from the 41st Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., search the Gulf of Mexico for downed personnel during a water rescue exercise on Aug. 14, 2012. Airmen from the 41st RQS and 38th RQS worked to locate and rescue downed personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Joshua J. Garcia)

Vibrant Response 13

Joint search and extraction team members pull a simulated victim from the rubble at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center at Camp Atterbury, Ind., July 27, 2012, during exercise Vibrant Response 13. Vibrant Response is a U.S. Northern Command-sponsored field training exercise for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive consequence management forces designed to improve their ability to respond to catastrophic incidents. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Keith Anderson)

Remove before flight

Maintainers from the 81st Fighter Squadron pull out firing pins and chocks to ready an A-10 Thunderbolt II for takeoff before a night combat search and rescue training mission July 20, 2012. The maintainers took part in Dacian Thunder, a month-long partnership building exercise that included U.S. Air Force, Romanian air force, U.S. Marine Corps and the Royal Air Force participants. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Natasha Stannard)