Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana -  The four pillars of resiliency -- physical, mental, spiritual and social -- are drilled into the minds of Airmen today to emphasize how important it is that no matter what life situation they are going through, there is always a healthy way to handle the situation.

Eglin Air Force Base - For one Airman, the motto “aim high” is an understatement. From collegiate athlete to Ph.D. scientist, the sky’s the limit.

Hurlburt Field - The 2nd Combat Weather Systems Squadron, an Air Combat Command tenant unit here, held a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the opening of a new testing and training facility Dec. 19.

Hurlburt Field - Their mission was to act as a blockade for a NATO ground operation tasked with clearing an insurgent safe haven. But what began as an ancillary tasking, ended with one Airman decimating the majority of enemy forces and saving his team from devastation.

Combat controllers sprint through the small, rustic village donned in plate carriers and radios, ducking behind buildings for cover, calling in coordinates and relaying information to the ground force commander.

Eglin Air Force Base - On Halloween, screams and howls are a common occurrence that comes with the holiday.  For one 96th Security Forces Squadron Airman, the screams he heard this Halloween were real.  Those howls spurred him into heroic action to help a severely injured victim.

Faryab Province, Afghanistan (AFNS) - Special Tactics Airmen with the 24th Special Operations Wing conducted multiple airfield surveys with their Afghan Air Force counterparts in Faryab province this week. Special Tactics teams have the ability to assess, open and control major airfields to clandestine dirt strips in either permissive or hostile locations providing strategic access for follow-on forces.

Washington - The Air Force has selected Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, as the preferred location for hosting a new MQ-9 Reaper Wing with 24 remotely piloted aircraft. Vandenberg AFB, California, is considered a reasonable alternative.

Grant Gallagher was making a decent living working sheet metal, but he began to wonder where it might lead over a lifetime. Then one of his coworkers told him about his son who had joined the Air Force and was a remote pilot. That’s when the light bulb went off for Gallagher.

They started as pen pals. Ryan and Alexa Neville began exchanging letters while Ryan was deployed to Iraq with Alexa’s brother-in-law Caleb.