New paint job

Tech. Sgt. Lee Gore, of the 96th Logistics Readiness Squadron, paints the underside of a B-47 aircraft display at the Air Force Armament Museum, May 25. Gore and other members of LRS’s petroleum, oil and lubricants flight work to restore the B-47 as part of Eglin’s Adopt-a-Plane program. It has been almost 13 years since the B-47 was renovated. The newly restored aircraft is scheduled to be completed in July. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

New paint job

Members of the 96th Logistics Readiness Squadron paint the bottom of the wing of a B-47 aircraft display at the Air Force Armament Museum, May 25. Members of LRS’s petroleum, oil and lubricants flight work to restore the B-47 as part of Eglin’s Adopt-a-Plane program. It has been almost 13 years since the B-47 was renovated. The newly restored aircraft is scheduled to be completed in July. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Brave Defender

Staff Sgt. Darrin Tullis, of the 30th Security Forces Squadron, checks underneath the SUV as part of Base Tango’s entry control point vehicle inspections during the three-day Brave Defender field training exercise May 20 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The exercise is the culmination of Air Force Materiel Command’s six-week security forces deployment training, administered by the 96th Ground Combat Training Squadron. GCTS instructors teach 10 training classes a year, which consists of improvised explosive device detection and reaction, operating in an urban environment, mission planning, land navigation and casualty care and more. More than 140 active-duty and National Guard Airmen attended this training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Brave Defender

Senior Airman Kayla Gant, of the 30th Security Forces Squadron, checks a female base-visitor for weapons as part of routine entry control point inspection procedures during the three-day Brave Defender field training exercise May 20 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The exercise is the culmination of Air Force Materiel Command’s six-week security forces deployment training, administered by the 96th Ground Combat Training Squadron. GCTS instructors teach 10 training classes a year, which consists of improvised explosive device detection and reaction, operating in an urban environment, mission planning, land navigation and casualty care and more. More than 140 active-duty and National Guard Airmen attended this training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Brave Defender

A Security Forces Airman fires his weapon from behind cover during an enemy assault on an entry control point at the three-day Brave Defender field training exercise May 19 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The exercise is the culmination of Air Force Materiel Command’s six-week security forces deployment training, administered by the 96th Ground Combat Training Squadron. GCTS instructors teach 10 training classes a year, which consists of improvised explosive device detection and reaction, operating in an urban environment, mission planning, land navigation and casualty care and more. More than 140 active-duty and National Guard Airmen attended this training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Brave Defender

A HMMWV patrol rolls through a village outside of Base Tango during the three-day Brave Defender field training exercise May 20 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The exercise is the culmination of Air Force Materiel Command’s six-week security forces deployment training, administered by the 96th Ground Combat Training Squadron. GCTS instructors teach 10 training classes a year, which consists of improvised explosive device detection and reaction, operating in an urban environment, mission planning, land navigation and casualty care and more. More than 140 active-duty and National Guard Airmen attended this training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)