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EOD prepares for FBI post-blast investigator training

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A joint team of Explosive Ordnance Disposal, federal, state and local law enforcement officers demolish an ambulance with 500 pounds of explosives during Federal Bureau of Investigations post-blast investigator training on Nov. 6. Agencies involved in bomb crime-scene investigations participate in this one-week course which places an emphasis on the identification and collection of fragmented and mutilated bomb components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

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EOD prepares for FBI post-blast investigator training

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Steve Hennigan and Steven Johnson conceal a secondary explosive device with dirt prior the detonation of 500 pounds of explosives used to demolish an ambulance during Federal Bureau of Investigations post-blast investigator training on Nov. 6. Mr. Hennigan is with the Los Angeles Police Department Bomb Squad and Mr. Johnson is with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bomb Squad. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers involved in bomb crime-scene investigations participate in this one-week course which places an emphasis on the identification and collection of fragmented and mutilated bomb components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

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EOD prepares for FBI post-blast investigator training

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Ron Capra, with the Los Angeles Police Department Bomb Squad, conceals a secondary explosive device with dirt prior the detonation of 500 pounds of explosives used to demolish an ambulance during Federal Bureau of Investigations post-blast investigator training on Nov. 6. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers involved in bomb crime-scene investigations participate in this one-week course which places an emphasis on the identification and collection of fragmented and mutilated bomb components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

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EOD prepares for FBI post-blast investigator training

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Ron Capra, with the Los Angeles Police Department Bomb Squad, conceals a secondary explosive device with dirt prior the detonation of 500 pounds of explosives used to demolish an ambulance during Federal Bureau of Investigations post-blast investigator training on Nov. 6. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers involved in bomb crime-scene investigations participate in this one-week course which places an emphasis on the identification and collection of fragmented and mutilated bomb components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

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EOD prepares for FBI post-blast investigator training

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Finn McClafferty and his K-9, Max, from the Beverly Hills Police Department, search an ambulance for explosive ordnance on Nov. 6. The ambulance was later demolished by 500 pounds of explosives during Federal Bureau of Investigations post-blast investigator training Federal, state and local law enforcement officers involved in bomb crime-scene investigations participate in this one-week course which places an emphasis on the identification and collection of fragmented and mutilated bomb components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

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EOD prepares for FBI post-blast investigator training

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Tech. Sgt. Michael Chamberlain lists information and material on an ambulance prior to its detonation by 500 pounds of explosives for use in the Federal Bureau of Investigations post-blast investigator training on Nov. 6. Sergeant Chamberlain is an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician with the 30th Civil Engineer Squadron. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers involved in bomb crime-scene investigations participate in this one-week course which places an emphasis on the identification and collection of fragmented and mutilated bomb components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

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EOD prepares for FBI post-blast investigator training

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Ron Capra, with the Los Angeles Police Department Bomb Squad, explains how the initiation device will trigger the detonation of 500 pounds of explosives that will demolish an ambulance during Federal Bureau of Investigations post-blast investigator training on Nov. 6. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers involved in bomb crime-scene investigations participate in this one-week course which places an emphasis on the identification and collection of fragmented and mutilated bomb components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

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EOD prepares for FBI post-blast investigator training

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Steven Johnson, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bomb Squad, places explosives in plastic containers prior to detonation of an ambulance for use in the Federal Bureau of Investigations post-blast investigator training on Nov. 6. Five hundred pounds of explosives were detonated. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers involved in bomb crime-scene investigations participate in this one-week course which places an emphasis on the identification and collection of fragmented and mutilated bomb components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

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EOD prepares for FBI post-blast investigator training

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Duke Dutch, a Federal Bureau of Investigations affiliate, creates quadrants for search grids prior to the detonation of 500 pounds of explosives used to demolish a vehicle for use in an FBI post-blast investigator training on Nov. 6. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers involved in bomb crime-scene investigations participate in this one-week course which places an emphasis on the identification and collection of fragmented and mutilated bomb components. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

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Stroke of genius!

Col. Steve Tanous, 30th Space Wing commander, signs Vandenberg's energy conservation plan here on Oct. 25. The first-of-its-kind document contains the Wing’s strategic vision and goals for energy and water conservation as well as detailed tactical plans that tell people at all levels of the base what they can do to conserve.

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Airman 1st Class Michael Brady, 732nd Air Expeditionary Group combat cameraman, sips water while being assessed upon arrival at the Air Force Theater Hospital here Oct 14. Airman Brady was transferred from the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. He was augmenting the Army in a non-traditional "in-lieu-of" tasking when he was wounded by sniper fire while on patrol in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq. He is deployed from the 30th Space Communications Squadron, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. John Nimmo, Sr.)

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Fire Muster

Airman 1st Class Matthew Meyer and Airman 1st Class Jorge Campos run to get a victim to safety from the simulated house fire during at the fire muster on Oct. 11. The fire muster is held every year by the Vandenberg Fire Department to educate and raise awareness on the physical demands of being a fire fighter. The competition gives other squadrons a chance to compete against one another while experiencing what it's like to be a fire fighter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Nichelle K. Griffiths)

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Fire Muster Competition

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Lt. Col David Piech, 30th Civil Engineers Squadron commander, presents members of the 381st Training Support Squadron for winning the second annual fire muster competition Oct. 11. The fire muster competition is held every year to demonstrate what a fire fighter has to face physically and gives squadrons a chance to compete against one another. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

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Fire Muster Competition

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Members of the 30th Space Communications Squadron throw buckets full of water onto a simulated burning building during the 2nd Annual Fire Muster competition here Oct. 11, 2008. The Fire Muster competition is held every year to demonstrate what a fire fighter has to face physically and gives squadrons a chance to compete against one another. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christian Thomas)

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Fire Muster

Captain Lance Ronere of the 392nd Training Squadron Struggles to pull a fire truck by rope with the help of his five man team during the second Annual Fire Muster Competition on Oct. 12. The Fire Muster Competition is held every year two educate and demonstrate what a fire fighter has to face physically and it gives different squadrons a chance to compete against one another. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt DeNoris A. Mickle)

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Fire Prevention Week

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.--Three year old Alexia Sarandos hugs Sparky the Fire Dog, member of Vandenberg Hot Shots, during Fire Prevention Week on Oct. 15 at the child development center. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Cole Presley)

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Fire Prevention Week

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.--Kristin Halbeisen, Vandenberg Hot Shots Firefighter, lets two year old Adan Reedy sit inside of a fire truck on Oct. 12. The Hot Shots make an annual visit to the Child Development Center during fire prevention week. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Cole Presley)

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boathouse

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.-- Col. Steve Tanous, the 30th Space Wing commander, speaks to volunteers pf the importance of preserving and maintaining our heritage. The boathouse offers both cultural and natural resources. (U.S. Air Force/Michael Peterson)

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Boathouse

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.-- Volunteers huddle around to prepare for work to be done on the boathouse during National Public Lands Day Sept. 29. The boathouse has been part of the military since 1936, when it was used as a rescue station for the U.S. Coast Guard. (U.S. Air Force/Michael Peterson)

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Young boy paints

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.-- Kyle Young paints with his mom Master Sgt. Emily Young of the 30th Security Forces Squadron. Painting was just one of the many repairs that transpired at the boathouse on National Public Lands Day Sept. 29. (U.S. Air Force/Michael Peterson)

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