USAFWC & NELLIS AFB PHOTOS

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Engine passes full afterburner test

Senior Airman Charles Scaperotto, 57th Component Maintenance Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., monitors an engine from the control booth during a full afterburner test. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Airman 1st Class Kasabyan Austin)

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Ground combat training

Students of the Ground Combat Training School practice assaulting a building during an intensive desert warfare training course on the Nevada Test and Training Range. More than 4,000 security forces Airmen attend the course each year. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Ceremony preparations

Nellis Air Force Base Elite Honor Guard members prepare to present the colors prior to the start of the UAW-Daimler Chrysler 400 Nextel Cup race March 12, 2006, at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald)

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Mixing business with pleasure

Brig. Gen. Robertus Remkes, Air Force Recruiting Service commander, Randolph AFB, Texas, delivers the oath of enlistment to 24 Air Force delayed entry members at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway during the opening ceremonies for the UAW-Daimler Chrylser 400 race March 12, 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Nadine Y. Barclay)

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Preflight check

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. -- Staff Sgt. Jason Parker, 66th Rescue Squadron aerial gunner, performs a pre-flight check on a 50-caliber machine gun mounted on an HH-60G Pavehawk helicopter. The squadron, based at Nellis AFB, Nev., provides worldwide rescue support for the combat air forces. A typical crew consists of a pilot, co-pilot, aerial gunner, flight engineer and two pararescuemen.

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RAF joins Red Flag

Sgt. Brian Scott (left), Cpl. Dave Parkinson (right), and Senior Aircraftsman Gary Shackleton (middle), weapons technicians from the IX Bomb Squadron, Royal Air Force, United Kingdom, load an outboard store to a GR-4 Tornado. The Royal Air Force is at Nellis to take part in Red Flag, an exercise that tests aircrew war-fighting skills in real-time combat situations. Red Flag involves more than 200 aircraft ranging from B-52 Stratofortresses to F-16 Fighting Falcons. The exercise will run through Feb. 18.

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Aggressors land in Alaska

Maj. Sean Routier, 64th Aggressor Squadron pilot, climbs down from his F-16 Fighting Falcon April 17, 2006 at Eielson AFB, Alaska. The Aggressors will be participating in the first-ever Red Flag - Alaska exercise, which begins April 24 and continues for two weeks.

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