Operation Take-Flight
100922-F-8430J-009 SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. - Staff Sgt. Helen Sowards (left), 20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, and Capt. Kibrom Mehari (top center), 20th Dental Squadron general dentist, helps Emma Kennington (bottom center) and Abigail Yarbrough (right) with their mobility bags at the Chandler Deployment Processing Center, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., Sept. 22, 2010. Local children participated in Operation Take-Flight, an event that gave Airmen's children a chance to experience what it is like to process to deploy to gain a better understanding of the deployment process and to see what their parents undergo. Children were able to go through the processing line, get a mission brief and deploy to a make-believe location. This was the third year Shaw has participated in the Air Force-wide program. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Amber E. Jacobs (Released))