Innovative Airmen make jobs, lives easier

Tech. Sgt. Sarah Fry reads the shape of a patient's cornea using an automated refractor here Aug. 20. The optometry clinic provides routine exams and emergency eye care services to deployed servicemembers at this undisclosed location in Southwest Asia. Sergeant Fry is a 379th Expeditionary Medical Group ophthalmic craftsman and is deployed from the Wyoming Air National Guard. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech. Sgt. Jason W. Edwards)

Opeartion Iraqi Freedom

SATHER AIR BASE, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. Tanya Parks, 447th Air Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, paints the 447th Air Expeditionary Group patch on a T-wall here Aug. 20, 2009. Sergeant Parks completed 15 T-walls and one mural during her time here. The Wyoming Air National Guardsman is deployed from the 153rd Airlift Wing and calls Duluth, Minn. her hometown. (U.S. Air Force photo / Staff Sgt. Misty D. Slater / Released)

090724 - 30 AW commander

Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal speaks to military and civilian members of the Cheyenne community during the change of command ceremony for the 30th Airlift Squadron. The 30 AS is the US Air Force's first active-associate unit, whose active duty Air Force personnel work hand-in-hand with their Air National Guard counterparts. The ceremony, held July 10 welcomed the squadron's third commander, Lt. Col. Eric Mayheu to the Cheyenne community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Paul Mann)

090724 - 30 AW commander

Lt Col. Eric Mayheu (right) assumes command of the 30th Airlift Squadron, 153 Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, July 10. Col. David A. Kasberg, 19th operations group commander, was the ceremony's presiding officer. The 30th AS, the Air Force's first active-associate unit, welcomed it's third commander to Cheyenne, Wyo., with a week of command related activities culminating with the change of command. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Paul Mann)

153 AW Wins Family Readiness Award

On Febuary 13, 2009, a annual presentation of the Department of Defense Reserve Family Readiness awards was held in honor of seven reserve unit components at the Hall of Heroes in the Pentagon. (U.S. Army photo by SGT Charles Hickson)

Quick Restock

Senior Airman Margaret Kandies, a services journeyman with the 379th Expeditionary Force Support Squadron, stocks canned food as Senior Airman Chandra Wostenberg, also a services journeyman with the 379th Expeditionary Force Support Squadron, records the weekly inventory at the Somerset Dining Facility, April 27, 2009, in an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia. An inventory is performed weekly to ensure the dining facility is adequately stocked to feed the personnel that pass through the facility daily. Airman Kandies is native to Charleston, S.C. and is deployed from Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. while Airman Wostenberg hails from Worland, Wyoming and is deployed from the Wyoming Air National Guard, both in support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom, and Combined Joint Task - Force Horn of Africa. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt Joshua Garcia/released)