MDG collects holiday letters for 'wounded warriors'

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Maj. Dawn Hinckley, a 30th Medical Group health care integrator, stands outside of her office, Room 323, 30th MDG clinic, where she has set up a table to collect holiday cards from Team V members to send to injured service members at Walter Reed National Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Steve Bauer)

14th AF command chief tours 30th MDG

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Chief Master Sgt. Dennis L. Vannorsdall, the 14th Air Force command chief, speaks to Airman 1st Class Friederike Benndorf, a 30th Medical Operations Squadron bioenvironmental engineer, about the mission and duties of the bioenvironmental engineering element at the medical clinic here Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. Vannorsdall was touring the 30th Medical Group as part of a base integration tour for his recent arrival as top enlisted member of the 14th Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Levi Riendeau)

U.S., Kyrgyz officials participate in joint EOD, CBRNE exercise

Staff Sgt. Igor Pogrebnyak (middle) translates Senior Airman Nate Gunty’s explanation of a ADM-300 radiological detection machine to Cholpon Chekirova during an information exchange at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, Nov. 22, 2011. Chekirova is a member of the Kyrgyz Ministry of Emergency Services. Pogrebnyak is a Theater Security Cooperation linguist deployed from Creech Air Force Base, Nev. Gunty is a 376th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosives response specialist deployed from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Tammie Moore)

Wing commander, family serve Thanksgiving Day dinner at Breakers

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Col. Richard Boltz, 30th Space Wing commander, carves a turkey roast for a Thanksgiving Day dinner at Breakers Dining Facility here Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Breakers was open to all military members and idenfication card holders for a Thanksgiving Day celebration. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Levi Riendeau)

Avian vs. predator

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Col. Richard Boltz, 30th Space Wing commander, helps feed a hawk at the landfill here Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. The hawk belongs to a falconer who uses the predator birds to prevent animals, like seagulls and other birds, from removing the refuse to other areas of the base and helps keep landfill workers safe. While the hawks are intimidating to many of the small animals in the area, they still have to be careful for local territorial predators. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Levi Riendeau)

Avian vs. predator

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Craig Golden, a falconer from Safari Depredation Company, demonstrates how his falcon, Maverick, hunts prey at the base landfill here Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. The falconer helps prevent animals, like seagulls and other birds, from removing the refuse to other areas of the base and helps keep landfill workers safe. While the falcons are intimidating to many of the small animals in the area, they still have to be careful for local territorial predators. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Levi Riendeau)