ACC pilot receives Distinguished Flying Cross

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael Boera, Air Combat Command director of requirements, presents the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lt. Col. Bernard Willi, ACC Personnel Recovery Core Function Team chief, at Langley Air Force Base, Va., Oct. 31, 2011. Over a two day period of emergency rescue operations, Willi and an Afghan crew saved a total of 988 lives; including taking 64 people to safety in a single aircraft load. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Teresa Cleveland/Released)

ACC pilot receives Distinguished Flying Cross

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael Boera, Air Combat Command director of requirements, presents the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lt. Col. Bernard Willi, ACC Personnel Recovery Core Function Team chief, at Langley Air Force Base, Va., Oct. 31, 2011. Willi performed hazardous rescues under constant enemy threat during severe flooding in Nangahar and Kunar provinces, Afghanistan, July 28-29, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Teresa Cleveland/Released)

Mentoring medics

Air Combat Command Airman Staff Sgt. Samuel Cruz observes Afghan health care providers administer six vaccinations to each of the nearly 400 Afghan National Army basic trainees at the 209th Shaheen Army Hospital in Afghanistan Dec. 31, 2009. Sergeant Cruz, a preventive medicine mentor with the Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan Medical Embedded Training Team, ensures the providers follow basic safety procedures, such as properly disposing of syringes, cleaning the vaccination site before giving an injection and wearing gloves. A METT is a multidiscipline unit responsible for the development and training of their Afghan counterparts. (Department of Defense photo/Sandra Arnold)

Formation

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Members of the 822nd Security Forces Squadron stand in formation during a homecoming ceremony here Dec. 8. About 200 members were deployed for six months to Camp Bucca, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Benjamin Wiseman)

Family hug

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Airman 1st Class James Leach, 822nd Security Forces Squadron member, hugs his mother Rebecca and sisters Jillian and Samantha, after returning home from a deployment to Iraq, here Dec. 8. The 822nd SFS was deployed to Camp Bucca, Iraq, and during the deployment, the squadron executed joint expeditionary taskings and performed outside-the-wire security operations and convoy escort. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Benjamin Wiseman)

First time

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE Ga. -- Airman 1st Class Timothy Canup, 822nd Security Forces Squadron member, is welcomed home by his wife Maricris and daughter Shaela here Dec. 8. During the deployment, Airman Canup’s daughter was born and this is the first time he met her. (U.S. Air Forces photo by Airman 1st Class Joshua Green)