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  • Meet Tech. Sgt. Denton Anderson, Noncommissioned officer in charge of communications integration at Desert Defender Ft. Bliss, Texas. He returned to his childhood home to maintain and repair communications equipment, and train and equip Airmen in preparation for deployment. (U.S. Air Force illustration by AFIMSC Public Affairs)
  • From left, Tech. Sgt. Paul Palmer, Staff Sgt. Pedro Perez and Senior Airmen Qwantez Harris pose for a quick photo outside the Miramar Naval Brig at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California. The 320th Correctional and Rehabilitation Squadron teammates recently won 2024 annual awards, besting their joint-service coworkers at the brig. (Courtesy photo)
  • Senior Service Member of the Year
As a dedicated command investigator, Tech. Sgt. Paul Palmer’s scope and impact of leadership included the management of criminal investigations involving both staff and prisoners to maintain order and discipline, which is essential to the mission of incarcerating and rehabilitating military offenders across all service branches. In collaboration with local and federal agencies, including Naval Criminal Investigative Service, he oversaw critical pre-trial and post-trial processes. As an interim Command Duty Officer, he also ensured daily operations within the $45 million DOD Joint Military Confinement Facility, covering 10 shortfall CDO roles and oversaw the safety of 176 Joint Service members and civilians, as well as 120 inter-service prisoners within a 208,000-square-foot facility. (Courtesy photo)
  • Service Member of the Year
Staff Sgt. Pedro Perez, operating in an E-6 billet, is responsible for leading 120 prisoners through daily supervision and directly supervises six designated quarter supervisors and NCOs to ensure good order and discipline within a Department of Defense joint confinement facility. As a Dorm Leading Petty Officer, he coordinates with six department heads to operate personal affairs for three housing units. As a unit team member, he is directly responsible for administrative actions, enforcing regulatory standards, and changes and implementation of programs that align with the brig’s commanding officer’s operational vision. (Courtesy photo)
  • Junior Service Member of the Year
Senior Airman Qwantez Harris ensures the safety and security of 120 inter-service inmates and 176 joint staff members at the Level II/III Department of Defense confinement facility at Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar. His duties include inspecting inmate housing units and enforcing compliance with naval regulations, the American Correctional Association standards and the Prison Rape Elimination Act. He performs cell searches and perimeter inspections to prevent contraband introduction and trafficking, serving as the direct representative of the command duty officer in his role as Master Control Center Supervisor, where he oversees the daily operations of the facility. During the year, he managed and oversaw 730 frisks, 740 cell searches, 350 strip searches, 27 prisoner intakes, 31 prisoner releases, 104 visitations, 86 escorts, 103 security patrols and over 250 daily routine evolutions in the brig. (Courtesy photo)
  • At center left, Air Force Security Forces Center Commander Col. Jason Harris hands the new 570th Combat Training Squadron guidon to Lt. Col. Scott Haselden, the 570th's commander, at Fort Bliss, Texas, Dec. 5, 2024. The AFSFC recently transitioned its detachments to a squadron structure to return the units to a familiar organizational framework. (Courtesy photo)
  • Col. Jason Harris, commander of the Air Force Security Forces Center, graduated the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998 with a degree in political science and was commissioned in the Air Force. A career security forces officer with more than 26 years of service, he is now responsible for a cross-functional organization that identifies and validates new and innovative force protection initiatives to improve Department of the Air Force mission execution and joint warfighting capabilities.  (U.S. Air Force Graphic by Jim Martinez)
  • Meet Dani Pierson, a member of the Air Force Security Forces Center Confinement and Corrections Directorate, is a drug and alcohol counselor and mental health technician, at the Charleston Naval Weapons Station. Pierson provides counseling to incarcerated military individuals to rehabilitate and help them avoid reoffending once released from the brig. (AFIMSC graphic illustration)
  • IWEPTAC 2024.1 logo. (U.S. Air Force Graphic)
  • Meet Master Sgt. Tanisha Chaney, Combat Arms Training and Maintenance Program manager at the Air Force Security Forces Center headquarters in San Antonio. Chaney and the CATM team establish small arms and light weapons qualification training criteria and standards, develop qualification training programs and courses of fire, and author and approve relevant lesson plans, handbooks and instructor guides for formal training courses at readiness training centers and other training sites. (U.S. Air Force graphic illustration)
  • Gunnery Sgt. Robert Votta from the Inter-service Non-lethal Individual Weapons Instructor Course fires a next-generation human electro-muscular incapacitation device at a target during a limited user evaluation hosted by Air Force Security Forces Center. (Photo courtesy Joint Intermediate Force Capability Office)
  • Staff Sgt. Amber Keats with Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland’s 802nd Security Forces Squadron receives an operational vignette prior to live-fire evaluation during the Air Force Security Forces Center’s recent next-generation human electro-muscular incapacitation limited user evaluation. (Photo courtesy Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office)
  • Keith Collins, Air Force Non-Lethal Weapons Program support officer, marks probe placement during the Air Force Security Forces Center’s recent human electro-muscular incapacitation limited user evaluation. (Photo courtesy Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office)
  • Aaron Hodges, Air Force Non-Lethal Weapons Acquisition Program support officer, reads an operational vignette to U.S. Coast Guard Lt. David Kveton prior to completing a live-fire evaluation of next-generation human electro-muscular incapacitation devices. (Photo courtesy Joint Intermediate Force Capabilities Office)
  • The 2024 Department of the Air Force Art Contest is underway and closes April 30. Authorized Air Force morale, welfare and recreation program and facilities patrons ages 6 and older can participate by entering 2- or 3-dimensional art. (U.S. Air Force graphic by AFSVC)
  • DAF Libraries Leadership Book Club. (U.S. Air Force Graphic)
  • The Air Force launched a virtual leadership library book club in February to help build current and future leaders while growing connectedness between Airmen and Guardians. The free club features books from the Air Force chief of staff's reading list. (U.S. Air Force graphic)
  • Tenants of Department of the Air Force privatized housing and government-owned family housing have an additional avenue for improving their quality-of-life with the March 4 release of the annual Department of Defense Tenant Satisfaction Survey. Tenants have until April 18 to submit their feedback.(U.S. Air Force Graphic)
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AFMC Spark Tank 2023: Integrated Capabilities Challenge

The 2023 AFMC Spark Tank: Integrated Capabilities Challenge is accepting submissions through Aug. 27. This graphic shows the command challenge timeline.

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