Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aleza Chan, medical lab technician, 966th Air Expeditionary Squadron, is technician with the apheresis program at the NATO Role 3 Hospital, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. Chan is part of a five-person Air Force team that runs the apheresis program at the hospital, which helps to collect blood platelets donated by members at Kandahar. The platelets are then stored and later used to help promote blood clotting in trauma patients injured in combat. The apheresis section helps to collect platelets for not only patients at Kandahar, but also for 14 other Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aleza Chan, medical lab technician, 966th Air Expeditionary Squadron, goes through the lengthy process of testing blood from donors at the blood testing section of the NATO Role 3 Hospital, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. Chan is part of a five-person Air Force team that runs the apheresis program at the hospital, which helps to collect blood platelets donated by members at Kandahar. The platelets are then stored and later used to help promote blood clotting in trauma patients injured in combat. The apheresis section helps to collect platelets for not only patients at Kandahar, but also for 14 other Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aleza Chan, medical lab technician, 966th Air Expeditionary Squadron, goes through the lengthy process of testing blood from donors at the blood testing section of the NATO Role 3 Hospital, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. Chan is part of a five-person Air Force team that runs the apheresis program at the hospital, which helps to collect blood platelets donated by members at Kandahar. The platelets are then stored and later used to help promote blood clotting in trauma patients injured in combat. The apheresis section helps to collect platelets for not only patients at Kandahar, but also for 14 other Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aleza Chan, medical lab technician, 966th Air Expeditionary Squadron, goes through the lengthy process of testing blood from donors at the blood testing section of the NATO Role 3 Hospital, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. Chan is part of a five-person Air Force team that runs the apheresis program at the hospital, which helps to collect blood platelets donated by members at Kandahar. The platelets are then stored and later used to help promote blood clotting in trauma patients injured in combat. The apheresis section helps to collect platelets for not only patients at Kandahar, but also for 14 other Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

A U.S. Air Force member prepares a platelets donation for storage at the NATO Role 3 Hospital at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. Blood platelets are donated here at the Role 3 hospital in order to help trauma patients who are injured in combat. The apheresis section is managed by a U.S. Air Force five-member team that collects platelets from repeat donors, which in turn is used to help promote blood clotting in trauma patients at the Role 3 hospital and 14 Forward Operating Bases throughout Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)

U.S. Navy Hospitalman 2nd Class Ashley Tapia squeezes a ball to help flood flow in her arm while she donates platelets at the apheresis section of the NATO Role 3 Hospital at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2012. The apheresis section is managed by a U.S. Air Force five-member team that collects platelets from repeat donors, which in turn is used to help trauma patients at the Role 3 hospital and 14 Forward Operating Bases throughout Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster)

From Vietnam to OEF: Pilot flies last mission of career

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. James Routt, a HC-130P King pilot with the 550th Special Operations Squadron, pre-flights his aircraft at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, April 9, 2012. Routt is currently the oldest active duty pilot in the Air Force and is augmenting the 71st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron. The mission of the 71st EQRS is to provide personnel recovery, casualty evacuation and aeromedical evacuation assets from hostile locations. The 71st EQRS is the only fixed wing aircraft squadron dedicated to medical evacuation missions in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Greg Biondo)

Operation Enduring Freedom

The U.S. Air Forces Central Expeditionary Band Blue Hawk from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Carswell Field,Texas, perform in down town Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. July 02, 2011. The AFCENT Band builds troop morale and public diplomacy while touring the Area of Responsibility. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith)

Blue Hawk Sings to Iraqi Children

U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Lane McCray Jr., a vocalist with the Air Forces Central Expeditionary Band Blue Hawk from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Carswell Field,Texas sings to members of the Iraqi Boy Scouts and Girls Guides Council at an Iraqi military installation. June 25, 2011. The AFCENT Band builds troop morale and public diplomacy while touring the Area of Responsibility. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew Smith)

Iraqis join PA 'family'

A major in the Iraqi Air Force takes notes June 15, 2011 at Victory Base Complex during a Public Affairs training course. The class learned the basics of photography, videography, crisis communication, media relations and general Public Affairs during the three month course. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Chuck Broadway)

Airmen improve capability of Iraqi medical clinic

Army 1st Lt. Vijaj Soprey, 224th Sustainment Brigade physician assistant, gives a medical training course to Iraqi airmen Feb. 23, 2011, at the medical clinic on Ali Air Base, Iraq. Airmen assigned to the base transition team here have helped improve the clinic’s ability to meet the needs of the Iraqi Air Force by providing $200,000 in essential medical equipment, increasing storage capacity and coordinating monthly self-aid buddy care training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Andrew Lee/Released)

Airmen improve capability of Iraqi medical clinic

An Iraqi airman reads a booklet on various types of injuries during a medical training course Feb. 23, 2011, at the medical clinic on Ali Air Base, Iraq. Airmen assigned to the base transition team here have helped improve the clinic’s ability to meet the needs of the Iraqi Air Force by providing $200,000 in essential medical equipment, increasing storage capacity and coordinating monthly self-aid buddy care training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Andrew Lee/Released)