 
‘I KILLED MY BEST FRIEND’S SISTER’
Still bearing a physical scar on his left arm from a texting and driving crash just more than three years ago, Senior Airman Caleb Zody says the emotional scars from that day are much tougher to overcome. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Brittany Chase)
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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‘I KILLED MY BEST FRIEND’S SISTER’
After rolling his 1994 Honda Accord three times, Zody had to have 4 inches of muscle stitched together and sewn back into his left arm and multiple stitches and staples put into his head. His car, pictured, shows the blood-soaked driver’s seat stained by his severe head injury, leaving little wonder why the Airman suffered a concussion and memory loss. (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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‘I KILLED MY BEST FRIEND’S SISTER’
Senior Airman Caleb Zody rolled his vehicle three times while texting and driving. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Brittany Chase)
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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‘I KILLED MY BEST FRIEND’S SISTER’
Airman Jacqlyn Weir was wearing a seat belt and survived the crash. (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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‘I KILLED MY BEST FRIEND’S SISTER’
Jacqlyn's twin sister, Jessica, was not wearing a seat belt and died in the crash. (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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GIRL ON FIRE!
Still holding onto her scorched flight suit, Staff Sgt. Erica Luke said she was “beyond happy” that it worked as advertised. She said she had always been taught that a flight suit was fire-retardant up to 700 to 800 degrees. But she admitted she was surprised that it was able to deflect most of the flash fire that enveloped her. She now stores the charred flight suit in a shadow box … protecting it as it once protected her. (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 4/26/2013
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GIRL ON FIRE!
When rust particles in a valve caused a spark that ignited a flash fire in a 100 percent oxygen environment, Luke didn’t escape unscathed. This picture, taken shortly after the mishap, shows where the fire melted the skin on her face and neck. (Courtesy photo)
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GIRL ON FIRE!
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Posted: 4/26/2013
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GIRL ON FIRE!
Long before the release of the hit song by Alicia Keys and the Hunger Games movie that further popularized the phrase, Staff Sgt. Erica Luke was the ‘Girl on Fire’ … literally (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet / composite by Sammie W. King)
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GIRL ON FIRE!
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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GIRL ON FIRE!
Valve similar to the valves attached to the oxygen tanks used by Staff Sgt. Luke to replenish the Cessna's oxygen system. (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 4/26/2013
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GIRL ON FIRE!
Two months after the March 2007 accident, Luke met her future husband, Staff Sgt. Alexander Luke. They now have two daughters, Riley, 4, and Mya, 3, who once saw one of her mommy’s scars, pointed and asked, “Boo-boo hurt?” (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 4/26/2013
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GIRL ON FIRE!
Luke proved to be resilient despite her agonizing burns. She suffered second-degree burns to her torso just above the left armpit, the left and front of her neck, the left side of her face and ear, as well as to her left arm and both hands. (Courtesy photo)
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GIRL ON FIRE!
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Posted: 4/26/2013
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Trending up gets THUMBS DOWN
Trending up gets THUMBS DOWN when it comes to Severing Fingers (Composite by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet and David M. Stack)
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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FOUR-FINGER DISCOUNT?
Table saws are the most common way Airmen lose fingers, accounting for nearly one-third of the Air Force’s 94 finger amputations this past decade, according to Air Force Safety Center statistics. (Illustration by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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FOR THE BIRDS
This peregrine falcon is similar to one of the falcons that will be used for the McConnell AFB, Kan., bird aircraft strike hazard program. (Courtesy of the National Geographic Society)
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FOR THE BIRDS
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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DIET DRINKS + ALCOHOL ‘POUR’ JUDGMENT
Calorie counters, beware: Drinking diet "mixers" with alcohol intensifies the effects of the booze, according to the findings of breathalyzer tests (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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TRAIN SLAMS INTO PARADE
Midland police, fire and sheriffs respond to an accident where a semi trailer carrying veterans in a parade was struck by a train crossing Garfield. (Tim Fischer\Reporter-Telegram)
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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Colonel Will L. Tubbs Memorial Award
Colonel Will L. Tubbs Memorial Award for ground safety for fiscal 2012 (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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Posted: 4/25/2013
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REMOTELY PILOTED AIRCRAFT
The MQ-1 Predator was the second most flown airframe last year; second only to the C-17. Despite a dramatic increase in the number of flying hours for remotely piloted aircraft, mishap rates are improving for these airframes. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Effrain Lopez)
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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A BROKEN WING AND A PRAYER
Back together after 26 years, retired Maj. Plato Rhyne, left, and retired Lt. Col. Mike Hainsey, met with students and instructor pilots at Columbus AFB, Miss., May 4 to discuss their T-38 crash and share the lessons learned. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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NEW SAILPLANE
The Air Force Academy’s first TG-16A glider, replaces the TG-10C after arriving at the Academy July 8. The new fleet of training and aerobatic gliders is valued at $4.8 million and includes five new aerobatic gliders and 14 basic trainers. (photo by James Stafford)
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NEW SAILPLANE
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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HOME FIELD DISADVANTAGE
At-fault vehicle accidents for military members within the first six months of returning from deployment increased 13 percent overall, according to the USAA study. (Composite by David M. Stack).
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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HOME FIELD DISADVANTAGE
Deployed military members show “an appreciable increase” in at-fault accidents upon return to their home stations, according to a study conducted by the United Services Automobile Association, better known as USAA. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Adrian Cadiz).
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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END GAME
A 1-inch thick tree branch impaled a 7-year-old Montana boy through his left buttock during a sledding mishap. The boy had lost control of his sled on a downhill run, and the pine tree branch penetrated 6 inches into his body. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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END GAME
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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SLEEPING WITH PETS CAN KILL YOU
From parasites to the plague, sleeping with pets can be dangerous. (Photo by Tom Sperduto)
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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AIRMAN SAVES LITTLE BROTHER'S LIFE
Airman Basic Shelby Goff sits with her 6-year-old brother, Amadeaus Foster, at their home in Grand Junction, Colo. She used CPR to save him after a near drowning at a motel swimming pool in San Antonio. (Courtesy photo by Dean Humphrey, The Daily Sentinel)
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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SEVEN COLD, HARD FACTS FOR WINTER SPORTS, RECREATION
Winter sports, such as skiing, can be fun, but people need to understand the threats the weather conditions impose. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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CRYSTAL CLEAR
Malinda Johnson, who is Crystal Salierno's mom is in remission from leukemia. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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CRYSTAL CLEAR
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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CRYSTAL CLEAR
Staff Sgt. Crystal Salierno is still haunted by the thought that she came so close to losing her life when she chose to ignore weather forecasts in an effort to get home for the holidays. She still suffers headaches and tenderness from the head injury she sustained in a car crash. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet).
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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CRYSTAL CLEAR
She smashed her head through the driver’s side window when she totaled the Dodge Neon she was driving during an ice storm. But Salierno survived to spend Christmas with her mom, Malinda Johnson, who is in remission from leukemia. (Photo courtesy of Salierno family).
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Posted: 1/16/2013
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USAFA cadets break parachuting record
Air Force Academy cadets form up while attempting to break the largest formation collegiate record with a 46-person formation March 31, 2012, in Gila Bend, Ariz. The cadets broke their own record of a 41-person formation they set March 2008. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)
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Posted: 10/14/2012
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Kolligian Award
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz presents the Koren Kolligian Jr. Trophy to 2011 recipient Capt. Frank Baumann during a Pentagon ceremony June 27, 2012. Baumann is an instructor pilot stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. The trophy, established in 1958, is the only Air Force individual safety award personally presented by the Air Force Chief of Staff. (U.S. Air Force photo/Michael J. Pausic)
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Posted: 10/14/2012
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STANDING TALL
Miller doesn’t feel sorry for herself and doesn’t make excuses. “I will never use my disability as an excuse for failure, and I won’t spend my life hating the guy who did this to me. That would cripple me more than any physical disabilities ever could.” (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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STANDING TALL
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Posted: 10/17/2012
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Standing Tall
*Teaching the fundamentals of sitting volleyball at the Rambler Fitness Center, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, Jan. 18, Miller embraces the opportunity to meet, coach and mentor wounded, injured and ill warriors participating in a Paralympic military sports camp. Even though she was in the Army, Miller has a soft spot for the Air Force as her younger brother, Michael Miller, served as an F-16 crew chief at Cannon AFB, N.M. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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Posted: 10/12/2012
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Standing Tall
Playing a scrimmage against the male Paralympic team, Miller was named the best receiver and libero (defensive specialist) during the 2012 Paralympics in the women’s sitting volleyball event at the London Games. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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Posted: 10/12/2012
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Standing Tall
Practice isn’t over at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, where Miller and her Paralympic teammates practice. Miller and her teammates hit the gym more than fives days a week in preparation for the 2012 Paralympic games in London. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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Posted: 10/12/2012
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Standing Tall
Happy New Year? As the millennium ball dropped Jan. 1, 2000, Miller recovered from a collapsed lung, multiple broken bones, a crushed pelvis, a hole in her intestine, and a double leg amputation after a drunk driver crashed into her. (Courtesy Photo)
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Posted: 10/12/2012
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Standing Tall
Two-time Paralympic silver medalist Kari Miller stands 3 inches taller in her titanium and carbon fiber legs. Even though Miller no longer serves in the military, she continues to represent her country as a player on the U.S. Paralympics sitting volleyball team and as a coach and mentor to wounded warriors. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Samuel Bendet)
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Posted: 10/12/2012
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Hypoxia
“Pilots are basically normal people in a very abnormal dynamic environment” (Photo by Master Sgt. Jeffrey Allen)
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Hypoxia
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Posted: 10/12/2012
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Trapped Like A Rat
A rat trap broke a retired senior master sergeant’s right pinky finger when he inadvertently sprung the device with his hand. (PHOTO BY TSGT SAMUEL BENDET)
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Posted: 10/12/2012
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Motorcycle Mishaps
In a memorandum to commanders, AETC Commander Gen. Edward A. Rice Jr. emphasized … “Our command went nearly three years without a motorcycle fatality. … I have high expectations for us to accomplish this plus more in the future.” (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Matthew Hannen)
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Posted: 10/12/2012
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