AWACS conduct combat support mission

U.S. Air Force Capt. Christopher Lien, a pilot, and 1st Lt. Seth Woolcott, a copilot, for the E-3 Sentry, Airborne Warning and Control System, from the 963rd Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron, accomplish a combat support mission over an undisclosed location, Southwest Asia, Jan. 30, 2013. The E-3 Sentry is an aircraft with an integrated command and control battle management, or C2BM, surveillance, target detection, and tracking platform. Lien and Woolcott are from the 964th Airborne Air Control Squadron which is part of the 552d Air Control Wing at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr.)

FAST members provide much needed security at remote airfields

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Bambi White, 451st Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, provides security of a U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules Dec. 5, 2012, at a forward operating base in Afghanistan. When an aircraft lands at locations with little to no security on the landing strip, fly-away security teams come along to provide additional protection for the aircraft and crew. White's hometown is Pontoon Beach, Ill. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)

Prepare: Afghan "Big Air School" trains pilots, maintaners, future leaders

Jeremy Landers, a Lockheed Martin Mi-17 maintenance subject matter expert, observes an Afghan Air Force Mi-17 maintenance class at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee, the AAF's “Big Air School,” in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2013. Lockheed Martin contractors provide education material, advise and assist the AAF's Air University. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)

Prepare: Afghan "Big Air School" trains pilots, maintaners, future leaders

Lt. Col. Deen Muhammed, an Afghan Air Force instructor, teaches an MI-17 helicopter maintenance class to AAF students at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee, the AAF's “Big Air School,” in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2013. PeH trains and educates the AAF's future technicians, maintainers and other specialists. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)

Prepare: Afghan "Big Air School" trains pilots, maintaners, future leaders

Afghan Air Force Airmen learn basic security forces training at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee, the AAF's “Big Air School,” in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2013. PeH trains and educates the AAF's future technicians, maintainers and other specialists. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)

Prepare: Afghan "Big Air School" trains pilots, maintaners, future leaders

Afghan Air Force Airmen walk to class at Pohantoon-e-Hawayee, the AAF's “Big Air School,” in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2013. PeH trains and educates the AAF's future technicians, maintainers and other specialists. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder)