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)