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Generator Maintenance

Senior Airman Chad Coleman pours fuel into a diesel generator during a 931st Air Refueling Group drill weekend at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. Helping him perform maintenance on the generator is Master Sgt. Edwin Craig. Both Airmen are Reservists assigned to the 931st's Civil Engineer Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Connor Burkhard) Guy in full ABUs: Senior Airman Chad Coleman

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Get 1 Now

The Get 1 Now program now offers Airmen a variety of cool prizes for bringing people into the Air Force Reserve.

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Get 1 Now reward

Senior Airman Brad Enochs said these speakers offered through the "Get 1 Now" program performed well beyond his expectations.

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Getting involved

Staff Sgt. Anne Phillips, Senior Airman Michelle Horter, and Senior Master Sgt. Richard Tigges, all members of the 90th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, visit with a young member of the local community outside the gates of Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. All three deployed Airmen are Air Force Reservists assigned to the 931st Air Refueling Group, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Clayton Lenhardt)

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Ghormley takes command of 931st OG

Col. Kevin Rainey, right, relinquishes command of the 931st Operations Group during a change of command ceremony May 2, 2021, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. Rainey, who assumed command of the 931st OG in March 2018, retired last month. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Abigail Klein)

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Ginsberg visits McConnell

Col. Donald Robison, 931st Air Refueling Group Deputy Commander of Maintenance, and Col. Eric Faison, 22nd Maintenance Group Commander, escort The Honorable Daniel B. Ginsberg, Asisstant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, on a tour of the McConnell Air Force Base Total Force Maintenance Facility, Aug. 17, 2012. Ginsberg spent the day visiting several facilities on base and meeting with members of Team McConnell. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Zach Anderson)

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Giving back, paying it forward

The Combined Federal Campaign is a federal workplace program that connects Department of Defense personnel serving overseas with eligible non-profit organizations that provide health and human service benefits across the United States. (Graphic courtesy of CFC)

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Global Engineer

Senior Master Sgt. Kurt Smith (on right) and his civilian boss, Randall Salyer, stand in the shop where Sergeant Smith started when he was hired at Global Engineering and Technology, Inc., ten years ago. Salyer is Global's president and Sergeant Smith has worked his way up to become Salyer's director of operations. Sergeant Smith is an engineering superintendent for the 931st Civil Engineer Squadron.

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Global Engineer

Behind Senior Master Sgt. Kurt Smith are samples of the many textures that Global Engineering customers can choose for the interior of their aircraft.

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Global Engineer

Senior Master Sgt. Kurt Smith relays information to his fellow engineering troops at a recent Operation Readiness Exercise in Wisconsin. Sergeant Smith is an Air Force Reserve engineering superintendent for the 931st Air Refueling Group and a director of operations for Global Engineering and Technology, Inc. in Goddard, Kan.

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Goin' Fishin'

Chief Master Sgt. Don Askren holds the fishing rod presented to him by Master Sgt. John "Tex" Austin during Chief Askren's retirement ceremony at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., on Oct. 17. The chief was a charter member of the 931st Air Refueling Group and chief boom operator of its flying unit, the 18th Air Refueling Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Jason Schaap)

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GOLDEN WASP

Senior Master Sgt. Pamela Summers, 931st Mission Support Flight, holds the Congressional Gold Medal presented to the members of the Women Air Force Service Pilots for their duty during World War II. Over 1,000 women flew noncombat military missions logging more than 60 million miles in support of the war effort. Their determination to being the best paved the way for women in aviation.

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Gomez assumes command of the 931st SFS

(Left to right) Col. Matt Basler, 931st Mission Support Group commander, hands the guidon to Capt. Bryan Gomez, 931st Security Forces Squadron incoming commander, during an assumption of command ceremony Dec. 2 at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. Originally consisting of six members, the 931st SFS was formally activated Oct. 1, 2011, eventually becoming the fully realized unit it is today. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Abigail Klein)

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Good morning, McConnell

The Kansas sun crests the horizon over McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., Jan. 21, 2015. McConnell is home to the 22nd Air Refueling Wing, the Air Force Reserve 931st Air Refueling Group, and the Kansas Air National Guard 184th Intelligence Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Zach Anderson)

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Good Samaritan Award Presentation

Mark Cathey, Business Assurance Director, Spirit Aerosystems presents the Spirit Aerosystems Good Samaritan Hero Award to Tech. Sgt. Joel Janssen, a crewchief from the 931st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. Janssen was being honored by the Midway-Kansas Chapter of the American Red Cross for his role in helping a paraplegic man who was stranded in a field during a heatwave in August. (Air Force photo by Brannen Parrish)

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Goodwill in Guatemala

Staff Sgt. Crystal Herrington provides dental care for a local woman during a two-week humanitarian mission in Guatemala. Sergeant Herrington is a dental assistant for the 931st Air Refueling Group. She was part of a group of 931st medical personnel who traveled with Airmen from Travis Air Force Base, Calif., to provide care for more than 8,000 Guatemalans in late April and early May (Courtesy photo).

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Goodwill in Guatemala

The lines of Guatemalans seeking medical care were described "never ending" by one 931st Aerospace Medicine Flight member who supported the mission there. Airmen from the 931st AMDF spent two weeks in Guatemala supporting New Horizons, an annual series of joint and combined humanitarian assistance exercises that U.S. Southern Command conducts in Latin American and Caribbean nations. The exercises generally take place in rural, underprivileged areas.

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Goodwill in Guatemala

Young and old lined the way leading to the makeshift clinics 931st Aerospace Medicine Flight members helped setup during a two-week humanitarian mission in Guatemala (Courtesy photo).

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Gray Funnel

Master Sgt. Christopher Soto and Airman 1st Class Jesus Ramirez stabilize mock injury victim, Master Sgt. Robert Reader, for emergency medical transportation during a tornado response exercise in March 2008. A 2009 exercise, nicknamed "Gray Funnel," is scheduled to begin about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. Sergeant Reader is the 931st Air Refueling Group's Security Forces chief. Sergeant Soto and Airman Ramirez are assigned to the 22nd Air Refueling Wing, the 931st's active-duty host wing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Justin Shelton)

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Gray Skies

Rain clouds loom as Tech. Sgt. John Grindstaff and Senior Airman Candice Dodds help prepare a KC-135 Stratotanker at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., for a refueling mission. Nearly six inches of rain had fallen at the base in about 24 hours by Sept. 9, with more rain in the forecast for every day through Sept. 18. Sergeant Grindstaff and Airman Dodds are Reserve maintenance crew chiefs assigned to the 931st Air Refueling Group at McConnell. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Jason Schaap)

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