Mobility Impaired Hunt

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Stephanie Leavins' rifle is mounted on a swivel stand connected to her motorized wheel chair. By her father's design, she activates the trigger on the chair's footplate which sends an electrical charge to a solenoid, manually firing the gun. Every year, Stephanie and the Leavins family join other hunters at the Eglin Air Force Base Mobility Impaired Hunt. Stephanie harvested an eight-point buck this season. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Mike Meares)

Mobility Impared Hunt

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Earl and Stephanie Leavins, of Bagdad, Fla., setup for a Feb. 3 hunt at the 2008 Eglin Air Force Base Mobility Impaired Hunt. Stephanie is confined to a wheel chair with limited movement due to muscular dystrophy. This is her fourteenth year on the hunt. Stephanie's rifle is mounted on a swivel stand connected to her chair. She activates the trigger on the chairs footplate which sends an electrical charge to a solenoid, manually firing the gun. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Mike Meares)

Mobility Impaired Hunt

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Libby Leavins helps her daughter Stephanie prepares for an afternoon hunt Feb. 3 at the 2008 Eglin Air Force Base Mobility Impaired Hunt Feb. 3. Stephanie is confined to a wheel chair with limited movement due to muscular dystrophy. This is her fourteenth year on the hunt. Throughout the rest of the year, Stephanie concentrates on her career as a singer and speaker. The Leavins family thinks hunting is no different than their everyday life -- a family affair. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Mike Meares)

Mobility Impaired Hunt

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Stephen Leavins helps his sister Stephanie back her wheel chair up a ramp leading into an all terrain vehicle specially designed for her by her father Earl Leavins. Stephanie is confined to a wheel chair with limited movement due to muscular dystrophy. This is her fourteenth year on the hunt. Stephanie's rifle is mounted on a swivel stand connected to her chair. By her father's design, she activates the trigger on the chair's footplate which sends an electrical charge to a solenoid, manually firing the gun. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Mike Meares)

Mobility Impaired Hunt

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Dan McLaughlin, Basin Bayou, Fla., watches Norman Phair, Panhandle Bow Hunters Association, clean a whitetail deer at the 2008 Eglin Air Force Base Mobility Impaired Hunt Feb. 3. The hunters took a total of 36 deer, 23 of which were bucks, and one hog during the annual event. The PBA volunteers every year with the details of cleaning the deer for the hunters and cooking the food during the lunch time meal. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Mike Meares)

Tuskegee Legends: Escape kits

Lt. Theodore G. Lumpkin, Jr., issuing escape kits: (left to right): Joseph L. "Joe" Chineworth, Memphis, TN, Robert C. Robinson, Asheville, N.C., Driskell B. Ponder, Chicago, Ill., Robert W. Williams, Ottumwa, Iowa, Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945.

Combat Action Medals awarded

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla.--(L-R) Master Sgt. Gregory Pocaigue, Tech Sgt. Jordan Velissariou, Senior Airman Tarrick Jackson, Tech Sgt. Travis Laws, Senior Airman Jacob Sutton, Senior Airman Joseph Fougerousse, and Tech Sgt. Lorri Mayes were presented with Combat Action Medals Dec. 10. Maj. Gen. David Eidsaune, Program Executive Officer for Weapons and Air Armament Center commander, presented the medals at his commander's call. (USAF photo by David Kidd)

Colonel awarded Air Medal

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla.--Maj. Gen. David Eidsaune, Program Executive Officer for Weapons and Air Armament Center commander, presents an Air Medal to Col. Tama Van Decar. The colonel was recognized for meritorious achievement while deployed as the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing's Squadron Commander and flight surgeon. (USAF photo by David Kidd)

Boxers visit Eglin Airmen

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Roy Jones Jr., former world heavyweight champion, builds a salad from the salad bar at The Breeze dining facility during his visit to base Dec. 4. Don King, Jones and Felix "Tito" Trinidad made a visit to Eglin Airmen to sign autographs. Jones and Trinidad, with a combined 13 world titles, will meet in a much anticipated fight Jan. 19 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Mike Meares)

Boxers visit Eglin Airmen

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Roy Jones Jr., former world heavyweight champion, builds a salad from the salad bar at The Breeze dining facility during his visit to base Dec. 4. Don King, Jones and Felix "Tito" Trinidad made a visit to Eglin Airmen to sign autographs. Jones and Trinidad, with a combined 13 world titles, will meet in a much anticipated fight Jan. 19 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Mike Meares)

Boxers visit Eglin Airmen

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Roy Jones Jr., former world heavyweight champion boxer, sits in the cockpit of a 33rd Fighter Wing F-15 fighter jet Dec. 4. Don King, Jones and Felix "Tito" Trinidad made a visit to Eglin Airmen to sign autographs. Jones and Trinidad, with a combined 13 world titles, will meet in a much anticipated fight Jan. 19 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Mike Meares)

Boxers visit Eglin Airmen

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Airman 1st Class Cody Maskell and Maj. Michael Spanich explain the cockpit of a F-15 fighter jet to Roy Jones Jr. during a visit to the base Dec. 4. Don King, Jones and Felix "Tito" Trinidad made a visit to Eglin Airmen to sign autographs. Jones and Trinidad, with a combined 13 world titles, will meet in a much anticipated fight Jan. 19 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Airman Maskell is a crew chief with the 60th Fighter Squadron and Major Spanich is with the 33rd Operations Group. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Mike Meares)