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.