EOD prepares for FBI post-blast investigator training

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Tech. Sgt. Michael Chamberlain lists information and material on an ambulance prior to its detonation by 500 pounds of explosives for use in the Federal Bureau of Investigations post-blast investigator training on Nov. 6. Sergeant Chamberlain is an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician with the 30th Civil Engineer Squadron. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers involved in bomb crime-scene investigations participate in this one-week course which places an emphasis on the identification and collection of fragmented and mutilated bomb components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

EOD prepares for FBI post-blast investigator training

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Ron Capra, with the Los Angeles Police Department Bomb Squad, explains how the initiation device will trigger the detonation of 500 pounds of explosives that will demolish an ambulance during Federal Bureau of Investigations post-blast investigator training on Nov. 6. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers involved in bomb crime-scene investigations participate in this one-week course which places an emphasis on the identification and collection of fragmented and mutilated bomb components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

Stroke of genius!

Col. Steve Tanous, 30th Space Wing commander, signs Vandenberg's energy conservation plan here on Oct. 25. The first-of-its-kind document contains the Wing’s strategic vision and goals for energy and water conservation as well as detailed tactical plans that tell people at all levels of the base what they can do to conserve.

Operation Iraqi Freedom

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Airman 1st Class Michael Brady, 732nd Air Expeditionary Group combat cameraman, sips water while being assessed upon arrival at the Air Force Theater Hospital here Oct 14. Airman Brady was transferred from the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. He was augmenting the Army in a non-traditional "in-lieu-of" tasking when he was wounded by sniper fire while on patrol in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq. He is deployed from the 30th Space Communications Squadron, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. John Nimmo, Sr.)

Fire Muster Competition

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Members of the 30th Space Communications Squadron throw buckets full of water onto a simulated burning building during the 2nd Annual Fire Muster competition here Oct. 11, 2008. The Fire Muster competition is held every year to demonstrate what a fire fighter has to face physically and gives squadrons a chance to compete against one another. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

Fire Muster

Captain Lance Ronere of the 392nd Training Squadron Struggles to pull a fire truck by rope with the help of his five man team during the second Annual Fire Muster Competition on Oct. 12. The Fire Muster Competition is held every year two educate and demonstrate what a fire fighter has to face physically and it gives different squadrons a chance to compete against one another. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt DeNoris A. Mickle)

boathouse

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.-- Col. Steve Tanous, the 30th Space Wing commander, speaks to volunteers pf the importance of preserving and maintaining our heritage. The boathouse offers both cultural and natural resources. (U.S. Air Force/Michael Peterson)

Boathouse

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.-- Volunteers huddle around to prepare for work to be done on the boathouse during National Public Lands Day Sept. 29. The boathouse has been part of the military since 1936, when it was used as a rescue station for the U.S. Coast Guard. (U.S. Air Force/Michael Peterson)

POW/MIA Ceremony

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.-- Guest speaker Mrs. Carol Ray of Orcutt, Calif., whose father, Col. Hubert Nichols, Jr., was listed as a POW/MIA for nearly twelve years during the Vietnam War, receives a commemorative 30th Space Wing coin and flowers from Col. Steve Tanous, 30th Space Wing commander, for speaking at the POW/MIA Ceremony on Sep. 21. Vandenberg gathered for the remembrance ceremony to honor fallen Airmen, Soldiers, Seamen and Marines. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Cole Presley)

POW/MIA Ceremony

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.--Guest speaker Mrs. Carol Ray of Orcutt, Calif., whose father, Col. Hubert Nichols, Jr., was listed as a POW/MIA for nearly twelve years during the Vietnam War, describes how it was going through life losing her dad to the war at the POW/MIA Ceremony on Sep. 21. Vandenberg gathered for the remembrance ceremony to honor fallen Airmen, Soldiers, Seamen and Marines. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Airman 1st Class Cole Presley)

Watch the burn

Three Vandenberg fire fighters put out a blaze in east base housing here. Four Vandenberg fire fighters put out a training fire in east base housing here. The 30th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Protection Flight have five live training fires planned from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. between Sept. 14 and Oct. 1. The training will consist of live fire training inside a residential structure and will give the firefighters the opportunity to get first-hand knowledge of fire behavior as well as the specific stages of fire growth in safer, controlled environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Vanessa Valentine)

Analyze this

Four Vandenberg fire fighters put out a training fire in east base housing here. The 30th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Protection Flight have five live training fires planned from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. between Sept. 14 and Oct. 1. The training will consist of live fire training inside a residential structure and will give the firefighters the opportunity to get first-hand knowledge of fire behavior as well as the specific stages of fire growth in safer, controlled environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Vanessa Valentine)