The Air Force selected TSgt. Jennifer Hellwig as its Aircrew Life Support NCO for 2005. Hellwig, who is assigned to the 353rd Special Operations Group, Kadena AB, Japan, is a 15-year veteran of the life support career field who says the best aspects of the work are “interaction with the aircrew and augmenting combat and water survival.”
The U.S. sent Air Force F-16s over central Syria in a show of force following the Dec. 13 killing of two U.S. Army Soldiers and one American civilian interpreter by a gunman linked to the Islamic State group.
