Engineering research psychologist receives Harold Brown Award

The trophy which accompanies the Harold Brown Award awaits the 2012 presentation to Dr. Mark Draper by Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley during a Pentagon ceremony Dec. 17, 2012. Donley presented Draper the award for his significant achievement in research and development. As a leader and international authority on user interfaces and supervisory control optimization for remotely piloted aircraft, Draper's accomplishments have been directed at improvements to RPA operator interfaces and future warfighting capabilities. Draper is a senior engineering research psychologist with the Air Force Research Laboratory's 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)

Inter-American Air Forces Academy

Colonel Marc F. Stratton IAAFA commandant (left) hosts a visit by Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James Roy to the Inter-American Air Forces Academy in Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, TX, Oct. 30, 2012. Also present was 37th Training Wing Commander Colonel Mark D. Camerer (right). (Photo by Robin Creswell)

Inter-American Air Forces Academy

Lt. Col. Roberto Idoyaga, Paraguay Air Force (left), partner nation instructor at the Inter-American Air Forces Academy, evaluates Lt. Francisco Morales, a student from Panama, on his final check ride during the Instructor Pilot Instrument Procedures course in Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, TX, Dec. 7, 2012. The IPIP course teaches partner nation students who are experienced pilots in their respective branches of services to become instrument flight instructors. The instruction includes Federal Aviation Administration and International Civil Aviation Organization rules and procedures. (US Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Marleah Miller)

Presidential Inauguration

Senior Master Sgt. Scott Hinds, with the District of Columbia Air National Guard, walks along a large-scale map of Washington, D.C., while giving a briefing about aspects pertaining to the 57th Presidential Inauguration annotated on the map at the District of Columbia Armory, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. The District of Columbia National Guard has participated in every presidential inauguration since 1861 and is one of the key agencies involved in planning for the upcoming inauguration. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy)

Special Operations Tryouts

An Air Force Pararescue Jumper conducts an orientation with applicants. (U.S. Air Force photo)

AF doctor uses cutting edge device

Lt. Col. (Dr.) Jeremy Cannon, right, and Dr. Jeremy Pamplin place a patient on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, in September 2012 at San Antonio Military Medical Center in Texas. ECMO is a heart-lung bypass system that circulates blood through an external artificial lung and sends it back into the patient’s bloodstream. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research)