CSAF addresses AF issues, surveys tornado damage at Little Rock AFB

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz shakes hands with Jesse, son of Staff Sgt. Eric Bramblett, May 4, 2011, outside their base house at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. Sergeant Bramblett is a vehicle operator and dispatcher assigned to the 19th Logistics Readiness Squadron. He returned from a deployment to Iraq after his house was destroyed by the tornado that hit Little Rock AFB April 25, 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Rusty Frank)

CSAF addresses AF issues, surveys tornado damage at Little Rock AFB

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz talks with Col. Michael Minihan May 4, 2011, at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. General Schwartz was previously assigned to Little Rock AFB during his C-130 Hercules initial-qualification training and as a C-130E/H flight examiner. Colonel Minihan is the 19th Airlift Wing commander. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Chris Willis)

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Prisoner of War Medal

Maj. Gen. Edward W. Tonini, the Kentucky adjutant general, speaks about the sacrifice of the late Capt. Merlin R. "Bob" Kehrer, a former Kentucky Air Guard pilot, during a ceremony April 16, 2011, at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., to present the sons and daughter of the Airman a posthumous Prisoner of War Medal. Captain Kehrer was a young lieutenant and P-51 pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps when his plane was shot down over enemy territory Feb. 24, 1944, and he was held in a German prisoner of war camp for 13 months. The family members (from left) are Tom Kehrer, Bonnie Urbanski and Bob Kehrer. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Dennis Flora)

Dr. James G. Roche award

Dr. James G. Roche, former Secretary of the Air Force, poses for a photograph with Col. Mark Williams, Chief of the B-2 Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, during an award ceremony in the Pentagon April 11, 2011. Colonel Williams represented all the members of the B-2 Spirit division, which won the 2010 Dr. James G. Roche Sustainment Excellence Award for demonstrating the most improved performance in aircraft maintenance and logistics readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo/Andy Morataya)

Dr. James G. Roche award

Dr. James G. Roche, former Secretary of the Air Force, speaks before the presentation of an award named in his honor at a ceremony at the Pentagon on April 11, 2011. The B-2 Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, won the 2010 Dr. James G. Roche Sustainment Excellence Award for demonstrating the most improved performance in aircraft maintenance and logistics readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo/Andy Morataya)