Operational Readiness Exersice

Members of the 171st Air Refueling Wing located in Pittsburgh, PA participate in an operational readiness exercise on August 11, 2007 which will take them to Volk Field, WI where they will continue to practice wartime skills.

Sesame Street Experience Live

Pittsburgh, Penn.- Sunday, October 26, 2008 Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, and the USO (United Service Organizations) teamed up to provide The Sesame Street Experience for Military Families: a free traveling tour to military installations across the country. The initiative provides support and offers significant resources for military families with young children experiencing the effects of deployment, multiple deployments or when a parent returns home changed due to a combat related injury. Military families who attended the 60-minute experience saw a live 25-minute character performance and received outreach materials from Talk, Listen, Connect and other partners. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Edward Reich) (Released)

FOD Walk to Clean up the Runway

FINDLAY TWP., Pa. –Members of the 171st Air Refueling Wing of Coraopolis, PA stretch along the flight line during their early morning FOD walk on August 3, 2008. (US Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Sara M Bressler)

Testing communications for readiness

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Tech. Sgt. Paul Kline and Staff Sgt. Kimberly Tarry, 258th Air Traffic Control Squadron, test the communication system in their simulated deployed location during the squadron’s Operation Readiness Inspection in August 2008. (U. S. Air Force Photo/ Staff Sgt. Stacy Gault)

Flight surgeon receives T-6 egress training

Col. Alan Hodgdon, one of 12 Air Force flight surgeons who are also pilots, receives T-6 egress training, July 25, from Staff Sgt. David Webb with the 71st Medical Operations Squadron’s Aerospace Physiology Flight here. Colonel Hodgdon is the Medical Group commander with the 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pa. He was a T-37 instructor pilot at Laughlin AFB, Texas, from 1978 until 1984. Colonel Hodgdon also flew F-4s while attending medical school. All flight surgeons have required flight time, half of which can be with aircraft outside their home unit. Colonel Hodgdon’s son, 2nd Lt. Benjamin Hodgdon, is a student in Class 090-06 here. (U.S. Air Force photo by Joe B. Wiles)

Flight surgeon receives T-6 egree training

Col. Alan Hodgdon, one of 12 Air Force flight surgeons who are also pilots, receives T-6 egress training, July 25, from Staff Sgt. David Webb with the 71st Medical Operations Squadron’s Aerospace Physiology Flight here. Colonel Hodgdon is the Medical Group commander with the 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pa. He was a T-37 instructor pilot at Laughlin AFB, Texas, from 1978 until 1984. Colonel Hodgdon also flew F-4s while attending medical school. All flight surgeons have required flight time, half of which can be with aircraft outside their home unit. Colonel Hodgdon’s son, 2nd Lt. Benjamin Hodgdon, is a student in Class 090-06 here. (U.S. Air Force photo by Joe B. Wiles)