Among the select airmen who specialize in training other airmen what to do should an enemy capture them is SSgt. Edmund Dawejko, who has been named the top Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) noncommissioned officer of 2006. Dawejko is assigned to the 18th Operations Support Squadron, at Kadena AB, Japan, on the island of Okinawa. After eight years on the job, the NCO says there is nothing he’d rather do, except perhaps be an Air Force pilot.
Earlier this spring, the 388th Fighter Wing proved just 12 Airmen can operate an F-35 contingency location, refueling and rearming the fighters at spots across Georgia and South Carolina. The demonstration, part of exercise Agile Flag 23-1, marks yet another proof of concept for the Air Force’s plan to send…