Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Elisabeth A. Matulewicz.

Family and friends wave goodbye to approx. 160 guardsmen from the 111th Fighter Wing, Pa. Air National Guard, as they board an aircraft from the Willow Grove Air Reserve Station, Pa. headed for Afghanistan to support the continuing war on terrorism July 27.

Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Elisabeth A. Matulewicz.

Senior Airman Megan T. Cobb, 111th Logistics Readiness Sq. spends her last moments with family before deploying with 160 guardsmen to Afghanistan from the 111th Fighter Wing, Pa. Air National Guard, Willow Grove Air Reserve Station, Pa. July 27 to support the continuing war on terrorism.

Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Patrick Cashin

Diamante Astellero from the Summer Transportation Institute, Cheney University, Pa. sits in the pilot seat of an A-10 jet while Shane Walker and Edward Shepard, from Young Minds that Soar and Delaware Police Athletic League wait there turn to get into the plane. The 111th Fighter Wing hosted Tuskegee Airman Youth Day on Saturday July 19th. Young men and women from Greater Philadelphia and Delaware came to ARS Willow Grove to meet Tuskegee Airmen and see up close aircraft such as an A-10, F-16, T-6A and P-3.

Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Patrick Cashin

USMC Maj. Gregory Butcher from NAS Pensacola, FL T-6A explains the instruments inside of a T-6A to Regna Felder and her sister Janese Felder from the Summer Transportation Institute, Cheney University, Pa. The 111th Fighter Wing hosted Tuskegee Airman Youth Day on Saturday July 19th. Young men and women from Greater Philadelphia and Delaware came to ARS Willow Grove to meet Tuskegee Airmen and see up close aircraft such as an A-10, F-16, T-6A and P-3.

Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Elisabeth A. Matulewicz

Tech. Sgt. Matthew P. Youngers and Staff Sgt. Matthew C. Haas, both of the 111th Maintenance Sq., Pa. Air National Guard, remove obstructions from their lines during a Team Commanders Course at the Hawk Mountain Ranger School in Kempton, Pa. on July 17.

Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Elisabeth A. Matulewicz.

WILLOW GROVE AIR RESERVE STATION, Pa. -- Maj. Angel Burris, a nurse, and Maj. Michael Morgenstern, a physician's assistant, both of the 111th Medical Group, Pa. Air National Guard, bandage an "injured" civilian during Operation Red Rose III, an emergency response exercise, at the Lancaster County Public Safety Training Center in Manheim, Pa. May 8. After a casualty is decontaminated, medical personnel identify and treat injuries before transporting them to a civilian medical facility.