Missile support Airmen

Airman 1st Class Lachaundre Wilson rings up a customer’s order and gathers their change from the cash register March 12, 2013, at a missile alert facility nearly two hours from Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. Missile chefs post out to the missile complex for four days during which they cook and serve meals, clean the kitchen, and check and update the food inventory, among other tasks. Wilson is a chef assigned to the 490th Missile Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. R.J. Biermann)

Missile support Airmen

Staff Sgt. Ryan Bullard breaks for a nap at the end of the day after hosting guests at his missile alert facility and ensuring his facility manager-in-training has passed his training evaluation March 12, 2013, in Montana. Facility managers serve four days at a time at any one of the 341st Missile Wing’s 15 missile alert facilities, which are spread across 13,800 square miles of various Montana landscapes. While posted to the missile complex FMs eat, sleep, exercise and work. Bullard is a facility manager assigned to 490th Missile Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. R.J. Biermann)

Surprise gift

2nd Lt. Jennifer Szatkowski holds up a decorative brown bag she made for service members more than a decade ago while in grade school. Szatkowski, a second year medical student with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, saw the bag on a bulletin board where she was having her teeth cleaned. (Courtesy photo)

Sexual Assault Response

Maj. Gen. Margaret Woodward heads the Air Force Sexual Assault Response Office in the Pentagon. She was formerly the Air Force Chief of Safety. (Courtesy photo)

Sexual assault is a 'cancer,' Welsh says

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III and the Judge Advocate General Lt. Gen. Richard Harding appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee June 4, 2013, in Washington, D.C. During the hearing they testified alongside the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the service chiefs from the other branches about combating sexual assault in the military. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)

Sexual assault is a 'cancer,' Welsh says

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III and the Judge Advocate General Lt. Gen. Richard Harding appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee June 4, 2013, in Washington, D.C. During the hearing they testified alongside the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the service chiefs from the other branches about combating sexual assault in the military. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)