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Vol. 13, No. 9 Serving Southern Arizona’s military community, including Davis-Monthan Air Force Base September 2020
Look for expanded coverage in the digital edition of Desert Lightning News and on
www.aerotechnews.com/davis-monthanafb/.
INSIDE
StorIES
Face bias head on, 2
Core values are our
Polaris, 2
Travis battles fire, 3
Chaplain thoughts, 4
Fort Huchuca plants
Agave near range, 6
Continue to get Davis-Monthan
Air Force Base latest news
and information from these
sources: http://www.aerotech- Airman 1st Class Phillip Schwoerer, 355th Aircraft Maintenance Unit crew chief, prepares to marshal out an A-10 Thunderbolt II
news.com/davis-monthanafb for a training mission during Red Flag-Rescue 20-2 at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Aug. 13, 2020. Red Flag-Rescue
and social media trains all rescue and attack Airmen to prepare for the high-end fight potentially located in contested and degraded environments.
First Friday Red Flag – Rescue maintainers
Desert Lightning News
Date of publication
of the month
Submission deadline Story and photo by of Defense’s premier combat search and said U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Damon Chase,
Senior Airman
855th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron expe-
rescue exercise. During this high-end train-
15th day of the month CHEYENNE POWERS ing exercise, Airmen and partners are put diter. “This is where we will have minimal
prior to date of publication 355th Wing Public Affairs through realistic combat scenarios located manning, we don’t have all the parts we nec-
essarily want, and you’re seeing a lot more
in simulated contested, degraded and op-
Veterans ercise there will be constant aircraft erationally limited environments. of the deployment type breaks. For example,
During any high-end readiness ex-
at home station we don’t do a lot of ‘brown
Included in this training are aircraft
launches. Whether it’s for a search and maintainers who are pushed to spin up outs’, we don’t land in a dusty environment
Tell us Your Story rescue mission, aerial refueling or trans- aircraft rapidly to allow pilots and other where the rotors kick up a lot of dirt and
Active-duty, Reserve, Retirees porting cargo, aircraft will always need aircrew to execute their missions effectively rocks, and the pilots can’t see. This helps
All military branches are included to take off from the flightline. Aircraft and efficiently. During the training they prepare them for the sort of environment
Email name, phone number and a maintainers work tirelessly behind the are thrown into conditions they wouldn’t they will be working in when they do deploy.”
brief description of your service to scenes to launch these vital aircraft normally face while at home. Not only are these Airmen getting the
deborah.leuthold@us.af.mil and Red Flag-Rescue 20-2 is no exception. “This prepares my Airmen in a lot of ways
Red Flag-Rescue is the Department for what deployments are going to be like,” See rEscuE, Page 4
See DOOLITTLE, Page 7
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