"Team Predator" continues to support Haiti

OPERATION UNIFIED RESPONSE -- Senior Airman Stephanie Groome, a member of the 849th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., is assisted by another maintainer while she installs a propeller on a Holloman RQ-1 Predator during unpack procedures recently. Airman Groome is deployed with a team of 849th AMXS personnel in support of the Operation Unified Response. (Courtesy photo)

49th SFS members trains host nation military

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Staff Sgt. Ernest Francois, a 387th Security Forces Squadron member deployed from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., performs host nation training with members of the Kuwaiti military here recently. The training, designed to strengthen the ground combat capability of host nation military forces, included lessons on use of force, rifle fighting, low crawling, high crawling, rush and role patrolling and handcuffing. (Courtesy photo)

49th SFS member trains with host nation military

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Staff Sgt. Ernest Francois, a 387th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron member deployed from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., gives a classroom demonstration on handcuffing to members of the Kuwaiti military during host nation training here recently. The training was designed to strengthen the ground combat capability of the host nation military forces. (Courtesy photo)

AF mechanics keep MRAPs rolling

CAMP TAJI, Iraq -- Air Force Staff Sgt. Kevin Wright, 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Detachment 3 vehicle mechanic, performs maintenance on a mine resistant ambush protected vehicle Dec. 11, 2009. Five vehicle maintainers are attached to the unit to keep these life-saving vehicles operational. Sergeant Wright is deployed from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. and hails from Vancouver, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Trish Bunting)

Coalition brings smile to Iraqi family

Juma Flalih Husayn and his daughter Zaenab, 2, share a moment before preparing for the trip home at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, May 2. Zaenab recently underwent cleft lip and palate reconstruction at the Air Force Theatre Hospital, April 29. "A lot of kids with deformities get shunned, and that affects them for the rest of their life," said Air Force Lt. Col. Douglas Gottschalk, the otolaryngologist of Air Force Theatre Hospital. "A one day surgery [we performed], that's going to affect her for the rest of her life. That's a major thing." (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Carl N. Hudson)

Coalition brings smile to Iraqi family

Zaenab, 2, plays a game of catch with Air Force Capt. Tamara Myers, a nurse in Air Force Theatre Hospital, in Joint Base Balad, Iraq, April 29. Zaenab recently underwent cleft lip and palate reconstruction after her village spoke with Coalition forces during a clinical assessment. "Coalition forces were in the area giving donations and helping the poor," said Juma Flalih Husayn, Zaenab's father. "I showed them my daughter." (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Carl N. Hudson)