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Team Minot hosts Military Retiree Appreciation day at MAFB

U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO | SENIOR AIRMAN LEILANI BOSTER 2 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 NORTHERN SENTRY Air Force hosts EFMP summit for exceptional family members RICHARD SALOMON | AIR FORCE’S PERSONNEL CENTER

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) -- eing the parent of a child with asthma, cancer, autism or any Bother life-threatening or chronic condition is often a diffi cult journey that requires patience and sacrifi ce. Fortunately, thousands of active-duty members have found support through the Air Force Exceptional Family Member Program, which allows Airmen to proceed to assignment locations where suitable medical, educational and other resources are available to treat family members with special needs. In an eff ort to communicate directly with Airmen and families, the Air Force hosted an EFMP summit at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, Aug. 28-29 to address concerns, help identify solutions and share resources for exceptional family members from each major command. The summit was also broadcast live on the EFMP- Assignments Facebook page. An Exceptional Family Member is a family member The Air Force hosted an Exceptional Family Member Program summit Aug. 28-29 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. EFMP allows Airmen to pro- enrolled in the Defense ceed to assignment locations where suitable medical, educational and other resources are available to treat special needs family members. Enrollment Eligibility Reporting U.S. AIR FORCE COURTESY PHOTO System who has a diagnosed physical, in EFMP. Special assists with school-related event and look for additional intellectual, needs coordinators at issues, fi nance questions, crisis opportunities to improve the or emotional- THE AIR FORCE EXCEPTIONAL base medical treatment situations, and provides outreach program going forward. As psychological FAMILY MEMBER PROGRAM, WHICH facilities screen family and educational briefi ngs to a result of the 2017 event, condition that members so service installation leadership and the more than 40 full-time EFMP requires ongoing ALLOWS AIRMEN TO PROCEED TO members can obtain the community. Lastly, family employees were added Air specialized medical ASSIGNMENT LOCATIONS WHERE necessary assignment support personnel help connect Force-wide, processes were or educational limitation code, “Q,” families with each part of the improved for the more timely services. SUITABLE MEDICAL, EDUCATIONAL which identifi es them as EFMP. transfer of military health “Our EFMP having a family member “EFMP combines the expertise records and training was added professionals AND OTHER RESOURCES ARE with special needs. of the assignments, medical and for customers using TRICARE communicated AVAILABLE TO TREAT FAMILY The family support family support professionals,” Online. directly with component provides Schuler said. “All three “There was a lot of good families to answer MEMBERS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. referral information, components work together to information sharing this year,” questions and support services, respite eff ectively care for the concerns Schuler said, “so we have some create awareness care and relocation of special needs families.” positive things to build on for of the network of EFMP components that work services, as well as contacts One of the summit’s goals the coming months and the next resources available to them,” collectively for Airmen and their with government resources was to gauge the impact of summit.” said Kimberly Schuler, AFPC’s families. and civilian agencies. The recommendations from last policy chief for Humanitarian, The assignment component family support function also year’s EFMP rapid improvement Continued on page 11 EFMP and Expedited Transfers ensures adequate special needs assignments. “The Air Force care is available at the Airman’s continues to listen to feedback projected accompanied location. from EFMP families so it can It also reassigns Airmen and evolve the program to meet their families if care cannot be present and future needs.” provided for a new diagnosis The summit included through the medical treatment discussions on legal assistance, facility, the supporting TRICARE TRICARE, respite care, network or a combination thereof. resources for adults/caregivers, The medical component special needs initiatives, as well oversees medical clearances as new information on the three and enrolls the service member NORTHERN SENTRY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 3 CONTACTUS We’re getting Beth Duchsherer Manager | Advertising Director [email protected] or [email protected]

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE PUBLIC AFFAIRS Personal Chief of Public Affairs with you! Maj. Natassia Cherne Public Affairs Offi cer Let everyone Lt. Danielle Lucero at the Lt. Gabriel Cushing Superintendent Minot AFB Master Sgt. Jeremy Larlee Civic Outreach and surrounding Mr. Gregory Boster areas know Staff Photojournalists your news! Tech. Sgt. Jarad Denton “Memphis Belle” exhibit Tech. Sgt. Evelyn Chavez Staff Sgt. Benjamin Smith The opens at National Staff Sgt. Michael Kantack Staff Sgt. Steven Adkins Northern Museum of the USAF Senior Airman Jessica Weissman Senior Airman Jonathan McElderry J.M. EDDINS JR. | AIRMAN MAGAZINE Senior Airman Ashley Boster Sentry Senior Airman Alyssa Akers FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. bomber trapping the crew in a death The crew of the B-17 (AFNS) -- spiral culminating in a fi ery crash. “Memphis Belle” is pictured at Airman 1st Class Dillon Audit would like to hrough the cockpit A moment later, Quinlan reported an air base in England after com- windscreen, Capt. Robert that the fi re in the tail had gone out. pleting 25 missions over enemy share what’s Morgan saw fl ashes of The “Memphis Belle” and its crew territory. The crew, left to right: COMMANDERS light from the wings and would survive the mission; the crew’s Tech. Sgt. Harold P. Loch, Staff 5th Bomb Wing Commander: T Sgt. Cecil H. Scott, Tech. Sgt. engine cowling of a German Focke- eighth and the bomber’s ninth. important news Robert J. Hanson, Capt. James Col. Bradley Cochran Wulf Fw 190 at his 12 o’clock and They would have to survive 17 5th Bomb Wing Vice Commander: closing at an incredible rate. Each more missions to complete the A. Verinis, Capt. Robert K. Mor- to you. gan, Capt. Charles B. Leighton, Col. Sloan Hollis wink of light from the fi ghter’s wing required 25 to rotate home. All would Staff Sgt. John P. Quinlan, Staff root meant another 20mm cannon be fl own during a period of World Sgt. Casimer A. Nastal, Capt. Commander: shell was heading directly at his War II when the Luftwaff e was at the Vincent B. Evans and Staff Sgt. Col. Glenn Harris Call B-17F Flying Fortress at over 2,300 height of its destructive powers. Clarence B. Winchell. 91st Missile Wing Vice Commander: feet per second. Against all odds, the “Memphis Col. Craig Ramsey 701.839.0946 Having no room to dive in the Belle” crew fl ew those missions, their U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES PHOTO crowded formation of B-17 bombers last to once again bomb the U-boat NEWSSUBMISSIONS or email of the 91st Bomb Group, he pitched pens at Lorient on May 17, 1943, fi rst Americans to take the fi ght Northern Sentry Offi ce up. The Luftwaff e fi ghter’s shells before returning safely to England for to the Nazis in WWII, when [email protected] impacted the tail of the aircraft the fi nal time. Bottles of Champagne they unveil for public display the [email protected] | 701.839.0946 instead of coming straight through the were uncorked and radio operator largely restored B-17F, Serial No. for more info! windscreen. Tech. Sgt. Robert J. Hanson collapsed 41-24485, “Memphis Belle” as Over the intercom Morgan heard onto the fl ightline and kissed the part of a three-day celebration, MAFB Public Affairs Offi ce his tail gunner, Sgt. John Quinlan, ground. May 17-19, 2018. [email protected] yelling that the aircraft’s tail was shot For the “Belle” itself, it was only According to the museum 701.723.6212 • Engagements to pieces and what was left was in curator in charge of fl ames. “HOW DOES ONE CLIMB the “Memphis Belle” It was January 23, 1943. Morgan exhibit, Jeff Duford, the MAIL&FAX • Weddings and his nine crewmen aboard the INSIDE OF THIS AIRCRAFT weekend will include 315 South Main Street, Suite 202 “Memphis Belle” had just fought their more than 160 WWII PO Box 2183 way through a swarm of Luftwaff e KNOWING THAT THEY ARE re-enactors showcasing Minot, ND 58701 | 701.839.1867 • Babies fi ghters, dropped their bombs on a PROBABLY NOT GOING TO their memorabilia, Nazi submarine base in the coastal WWII-era music and city of Lorient in occupied and COME HOME? AND THEY vehicles, static displays VIEWONLINE • Anniversaries were fi ghting to survive the return DON’T DO THAT ONE TIME; of other B-17s, fl yovers www.northernsentry.com trip to the base in of WWII-era aircraft • Birthday Ads Bassingbourn, England. Morgan TWO TIMES; THREE TIMES; and presentations www.minot.af.mil began calculating if the crew should of rare archival FACEBOOK • Obituaries bail out and become prisoners of war 10 TIMES – THEY HAVE TO fi lm footage. The before the tail tore completely off the DO IT 25 TIMES,” “Memphis Belle” will Minot Air Force Base - Northern be the centerpiece of Sentry. The Northern Sentry is pub- -JEFF DUFORD an exhibit documenting lished by BAG, LLC., a private fi rm the strategic bombing operating independently of the U.S. mission 24 and the plane had to fl y campaign over Europe. Air Force. Contents of the Northern once more with an alternate crew on “The ‘Memphis Belle’ is an Sentry are not necessarily the offi cial May 19. icon that represents all the heavy views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. The B-17 and its crew would be the bomber crewmen who served and government, the Department of fi rst to return alive and intact to the sacrifi ced in Europe in World War Defense or the Department of the U.S. They were welcomed as heroes II,” Duford said, “In many ways Air Force. The offi cial news source and immediately embarked on a 2 the ‘Memphis Belle’ is the icon for Minot Air Force Base is www. ½-month, nationwide morale tour to for the . minot.af.mil. The appearance sell war bonds. The tour was also to “You look at the U.S. Marines, of advertising in this publication, encourage bomber crews in training they have this wonderful icon that they too could make it home. It including inserts or supplements, of the fl ag being raised over doesn’t constitute endorsements by made celebrities of both the “Belle” Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima and its crew. and everyone recognizes that. It the DoD, the Department of the Air Ironically, the two and a half symbolizes service and sacrifi ce Force or BAG LLC., of the products months of press conferences, parties and tenacity and teamwork. Well, or services advertised. Everything and glad-handing offi cers and the Air Force has that symbol advertised in this publication shall politicians was about the same amount too, and it’s this airplane. It be made available for purchase, of time during the “Belle’s” combat demonstrates teamwork. The use or patronage without regard to tour that 80 percent of the 91st Bomb crews had to work together. The race, color, religion, sex, national Group’s B-17s and their crews were planes in formation had to work origin, age, marital status, physi- lost to German fi ghters and anti- together. The formations had to cal handicap, political affi liation, aircraft fi re. work together with the fi ghter or any other nonmerit factor of the “Eighty percent losses means you escorts.” purchasers, users or patrons. We had breakfast with 10 men and dinner The service and sacrifi ce of the welcome your stories and photos with only two of those 10,” Morgan young men still leaves Duford of interest to the readership of the said in an interview after the war. awestruck even after working on Northern Sentry. Minot Air Force During the totality of the air war over the “Belle” project for a decade. Base Public Affairs reserves the right Europe more than 30,000 U.S. Airmen “How does one climb inside to not authorize publication.The aboard heavy bombers, like the B-17, of this aircraft knowing that they Northern Sentry deadline for sub- would be killed. are probably not going to come mission of materials is at noon the Seventy-fi ve years to the day after home? And they don’t do that that 25th mission, the Museum of the Tuesday before publication date. U.S. Air Force will honor the bravery of those bomber crews, some of the Continued on page 9 4 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 NORTHERN SENTRY

’We’re a team’: First husband-wife pilots to fly the B-2 retire from the Air Force Pilot Training Next MRS. BRYE STEEVES | 509TH BOMB WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS

WHITEMAN AIR FORCE Col. Jared Kennish, left, stands next cadre discuss BASE, Mo. (AFNS) -- to Lt. Cols. John and Jennifer Avery ows of chairs were during their joint retirement from the fi lled with family Missouri , Sept 7, lessons learned, way 2018, at Whiteman Air Force Base, members, close Mo. The Averys married on Feb. 5, friends and fellow 2005, becoming the fi rst husband R and wife team to fl y the B-2 Stealth forward military members. As the ceremony began, all eyes were bomber. At their offi cial retirement September ceremony at Whiteman DAN HAWKINS | AIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS on the couple standing up front. AFB, standing in front of their fami- Thirteen years earlier, the lies and closest friends, John and NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. an hour and half training ride, U.S. Air Force Second Lt. Charles scene was nearly identical. Jennifer were presented medals for (AFNS) -- with the instructors doing the Keller and Airman First Class Tyler Back then, John was wearing outstanding military service and cer- ir Education and rest,” Wilson said. “But if Haselden, Pilot Training Next stu- his Air Force uniform, though tifi cates of appreciations from the dents, train on a virtual reality fl ight president of the United States before Training Command they get a lot more practice in Jennifer was wearing a wedding the reading of the orders declaring simulator at the Armed Forces Re- gown. Now, they were wearing offi cials announced virtual reality, the students are serve Center in Austin, Texas, June they were “relieved from duty and the second iteration fl ying about 90 percent of their 21, 2018. Air Education and Train- fl ightsuits with oak-leaf rank on retired.” A the shoulders. U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO | TECH. SGT. of Pilot Training Next would fi rst rides, shaving weeks off ing Command offi cials announced begin in January 2019 during fl ying training.” the second iteration of Pilot Training And, the same friend spoke ALEXANDER W. RIEDEL a panel at the 2018 Air Force Thirteen students graduated Next would begin in January 2019 at both events. Jared Kennish Association Air, Space and from the fi rst PTN iteration during a panel at the 2018 Air Force fi rst made his remarks as the Association Air, Space and Cyber best man, and now as a colonel fi rst is a theme for the Averys. Cyber Conference. Aug. 3. The course ran Conference in National Harbor, Growing up in Miami, Jennifer To refi ne the curriculum for 24 weeks and included Maryland. and the 131st Bomb Wing the next class, the PTN cadre 184 academic hours, with Operation’s Group commander at said she was “shy and maybe used data collected from the approximately 70 to 80 fl ight U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO | SEAN M. WORRELL Whiteman Air Force Base. even a little insecure – uncertain fi rst cohort of the Air “It’s an honor to speak as John of myself.” After high school, Force’s innovative “One of the lessons we learned and Jennifer Avery retire from she headed to Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. She and experimental “USING AI AND VR IN THE is that using these technologies the Air Force, just as it was to approach to enhance still requires some up-front speak at their wedding,” Kennish carried with her a childhood the future of pilot TRAINING ENVIRONMENT investment in terms of VR said. “This couple has made memory of visiting an Air training to conduct a content creation, as well as history.” Force base in Charleston, South IS A GAME-CHANGER,” Carolina. “I’ll never forget my “Lessons Learned” -LT. COL. JASON COLBORN, development of the AI in a Lt. Col. John Avery and Lt. workshop in way that keeps pace with the Col. Jennifer Avery were the fi rst Uncle Bill taking me into a fl ight conjunction with PTN DETACHMENT 21 COMMANDER students’ timeline.” husband-wife pilot team to fl y simulator. That stuck with me, the AFWERX hub When it comes to data the B-2 Spirit. even to this day. I thought fl ying based in Austin, collection, context matters Their two, 20-year-long was incredible.” Texas. hours in the T-6 Texan II, as as the data comes in many careers culminated with the Jennifer graduated in 1995 “In the fi rst iteration well as approximately 80 to 90 diff erent forms, Vicars said. couple’s joint retirement with a bachelor’s of science of PTN, we made some hours of formal fl ight training “During this fi rst class, we ceremony on Sept. 7, 2018, at degree in biology and, as a signifi cant gains in terms in the simulator (which doesn’t learned how to manage and Whiteman AFB, Missouri. member of ROTC, received a of the lessons we learned in account for training conducted validate a continuous data Jennifer retires with more than commission in the Air Force as a training using current and on students’ own time). fl ow from multiple sensors,” 1,600 fl ying hours in the active- second lieutenant. emerging technologies, as said Vicars. “Moving forward, duty Air Force and Missouri Air “I knew exactly what I wanted well as individualized training Technology Lessons we are adding redundancy to National Guard. John retires with to do next,” she said. methods,” said Lt. Col. Robert One of the key tenants our data fl ows to ensure more more than 2,500 fl ying hours in Jennifer earned her pilot Vicars, PTN director. “Moving of the PTN program is the consistent data is gathered.” the active-duty Air Force and wings in June of 1997, which forward, we want to learn from round-the-clock access to Missouri ANG. eventually took her to Ellsworth our fi rst experience to make an immersive simulation Training Methodology The Air Force retirement AFB, South Dakota, to fl y the this training process smoother training environment, with Lessons is a traditional ceremony that B-1 Lancer – and begin making and more effi cient.” students having 24/7 access Unlike the traditional signifi es the completion of an history. During Secretary of the to simulators in their living undergraduate pilot training Airman’s long, honorable career She was the fi rst female B-1 Air Force Heather Wilson’s quarters. Critical to building model, PTN off ered of service to his or her country. pilot to go to combat, fl ying four opening remarks at AFA, she that individualized and students the opportunity “This is a thank-you for a job sorties over Kosovo in support of stressed the importance of continuously accessible to learn in a collaborative well-done,” Kennish said, “and Operation Allied Force in 1999. people and their innovative training environment has been learning environment in a an opportunity to highlight the Not long after, Jennifer applied ideas. She talked about the idea the use of virtual reality and learner-centric way, in line history made by this couple – to fl y the B-2 Spirit, based at and the testing being done at artifi cial intelligence. with AETC’s redesigned both individually and together.” Whiteman AFB, Missouri. PTN and that the results so far “Using AI and VR in the Continuum of Learning model, Of the hundreds of B-2 pilots “I was drawn to the challenge have been promising. training environment is a said Vicars. to come after John and Jennifer, of fl ying this unique aircraft “When they start out, game-changer,” said Lt. “One of the biggest just two other married couples trainees are typically able to Col. Jason Colborn, PTN are among them. It’s just one of fl y just 10 minutes or so, of Detachment 21 commander. Continued on page 11 their many distinctions. Being Continued on page 12 NORTHERN SENTRY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 5

Team Minot hosts Military retiree appreciation day Team Minot hosted a Military Retiree Appreciation Day at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Sept. 21, 2018. Retirees were given tours of a B-52H Stratofortress, a missile training facility and participated in an information fair. U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTOS | SENIOR AIRMAN LEILANI BOSTER 6 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 NORTHERN SENTRY THE LIGHTER SIDE CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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Norsk Høstfest is held annually in the 26-29 fall in the N.D. State Fair Center on the North Dakota State SEPT Fairgrounds in Minot, N.D., USA. The festival Courtesey of www.belleofthekitchen.com/2016/04/13/mississippi-pot-roast/ was founded in 1978 by the late Chester This Mississippi Pot Roast is the most delicious pot roast you will EVER eat! Made with just fi ve Reiten and a group of friends who shared his simple ingredients and slow cooked in the crockpot, you are going to fall in love with this! interest in celebrating their Nordic heritage. The festival, now entering into its 41st year, INGREDIENTS: has grown into North America’s largest Scandinavian festival with tens of thousands entertainment, authentic Scandinavian dining establishment lead by guest chefs. of people attending from all over the world. cuisine, Scandinavian culture on display, For more information or to buy tickets: • 1 (3-4 pounds) chuck roast handcrafted Norsk merchandise, plus a fi ne hostfest.com • 1 packet ranch dressing mix The festival features world-class • 1 packet au jus gravy mix • 1/4 cup butter 5:00 PM - 12:00 AM • 4-5 pepperoncini peppers Lamplighter Lounge 28-29 200 16th St SW, Minot The 7th annual SEPT Lamplighter INSTRUCTIONS: Oktoberfest is coming up September 28th and 29th. This German themed beer fest will 1) Place roast in the slow cooker and sprinkle the top with host Hammerschlagen, authentic food, live DJ the ranch dressing mix and the au jus mix. Place peppers services, giveaways, and an all around great on top of the mixes, and add the butter. time! Come out and enjoy the outdoor party 2) Cook over low heat for 8 hours. Serve with noodles, rice with plenty of German beer and Jagermeister for all! We hope to see those familiar faces of or mashed potatoes. Enjoy! our great patrons to celebrate our year’s best festival. For more information check out: Facebook/LamplighterOktoberfest

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM 29-30 Location: Sleep Inn & Suites 2400 10th SEPT St SW, Minot 6th Annual Minot Coin Club Show at Sleep Inn and Suites in Minot, ND. Saturday September 29 10am to 6pm and Sunday September 30 10am to 4 pm. 28 dealer tables set up to buy, sell, and trade coins, currency, tokens, silver, kids, door prizes, DAILY GOLD COIN More information: Facebook/6th gold, jewelry and more. Free gifts for GIVEAWAY, and fun for everyone. For Annual Minot Coin Club Show

5:30 PM - 9:00 PM Location: Elevation 1912 Valley Bluffs Dr, 4 Minot OCT Tickets are limited and always go fast! With this unique dining experience, enjoy a fi ve course meal without the use of your eyes. Raising awareness of challenges faced by those with sight loss. All proceeds benefi ting the North Dakota Association of the Blind. Tickets are $60 each and are available for purchase at Elevation, 701-837-0338. For more information check out: VisitMinot.org/DiningintheDark

Location: Mouse River Players 115 1st St SE, 5-7 Minot A musical comedy about the ladies that OCT work in the church basement, preparing meals for church functions. Inspired by the book Growing Up Lutheran by Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson, Church Basement Ladies follows four Lutheran women as they organize the food and Performances: House opens 30 minutes prior to show solve the problems of a rural Minnesota October 5, 6, 12, 13 at 7:30 PM time.For more information check out: church undergoing changes in 1965. October 7 and 14 at 2:00 PM Facebook/ Church Basement Ladies 8 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 NORTHERN SENTRY AROUND THE AREA Minot Symphony Orchestra opens 2018-19 season

AMANDA DUCHSHERER | DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

MINOT, N.D. – sharing some of my favorite inot Symphony pieces like Debussy’s “The COURTESY PHOTO | NORSK HOSTFEST Orchestra Afternoon of a Faun,” opened their Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at M2018-19 season an Exhibitions,” Ravel’s last Saturday, Sept. 22, at “Bolero,” Poulenc’s “Gloria,” Minot State University’s Ann and many others. See you at Nicole Nelson Hall with “P’ the Symphony.” for Peace.” The Minot Symphony “Originally I had planned a Orchestra is comprised of totally diff erent fi rst concert, student, community, and but we ran into confl icts with professional musicians from our soloists for the season the Minot area. and I had to move things “As we start our 93rd around,” said Efrain Amaya, season, I don’t think the Minot Symphony Orchestra core mission of the orchestra BETH DUCHSHERER | NORTHERN SENTRY Maestro and assistant has changed much. The professor of music at Minot Minot Symphony Orchestra f you are new to North to Copenhagen Hall you will meet the popular Queen Elsa State University. “I think the had - from the beginning Dakota you may have venture down “Troll Stroll” and have their picture taken with thought of ‘P’ for Peace’ came - a strong Minot State heard mention of the where you may encounter a troll Elsa, Anna, Olaf and Kristoff when I noticed the names of University connection and INorsk Høstfest. It is or two. If you stay awhile in from Frozen™. Make sure to the event of the year for many Copenhagen Hall you can take stop by the Cozy Kid Corner in a couple of the pieces that this relationship has kept North Dakotans and others who in free entertainment such as the The Villages to be entertained we were doing started with a growing and developing to travel from distances as far as Western Plains Children’s Choir with stories of Scandinavia. P. Then I thought of playing this incredible and fortunate Sweden and Norway to attend and the Medora Gospel. Tales from Russian Folklore, with words of ‘P’ for Peace’ partnership that we have now. this festival of Scandinavian and There is also more than just Viking tales & myths and even instead of ‘P’ for Piece of Thanks to MSU and the MSO Nordic cultures. The festival the outstanding entertainment to thrilling troll tales will excite Music.’ I really wanted to Association the orchestra began on Wednesday, September take in at Høstfest. Phenomenal kids and adults of all ages. make a call for peace. I fi nd thrives, and I foresee it 26 and will continue to have restaurants like En To Tre and The cultural celebration has that we fi ght over trivial becoming more professional events until the closing reception stations serving traditional been running since 1979. New things and it looks more as we look into the future,” on Saturday, September 29. recipes such as lutefi sk, lefse this year is the Cafe En To Tre Featured performances and rømmegrøt will delight your which is a more casual version than ever that the country Amaya said. include: Alabama; Tanya Tucker tastebuds. There is an extensive of the original with a open-faced is divided. My hope is that All performances are held with special guests, The Texas display of skilled artisans and sandwiches and a variety of perhaps we will all realize that at Minot State’s Ann Nichole Tenors; Michael Bolton; and The vendors from around the world Norwegian cakes. we all want the same things, Nelson Hall. Prices and tickets Beach Boys. Other performers who have set up shop to share There is a lot of history and but we most of the time just can be found online at www. that are equally entertaining their crafts. Various items culture that visitors will learn stubbornly only see one way minotsymphony.com. include Daniel O’Donnell, like handmade Viking silver and experience. But don’t of achieving that. Johnny Reid, Engelbert jewelry, Rosemaled plates, and be discouraged if you are not “Music, like all art forms, Humperdinck, and the recent Scandinavian sweaters are just Scandinavian or have a Nordic has the power to unite us and award winner from America’s a brief list of everything that is background, you are welcomed Got Talent, Darci Lynne with her available at the festival. There as a friend from the moment heal us.” ABOUT MINOT STATE amazing ventriloquism talents. are artisans who demonstrate you step on the shuttle to the The performance begins UNIVERSITY The Norsk Høstfest celebrates their craft for onlookers such as festival. One favorite activity with Claude Debussy’s Minot State University is Scandinavian culture and the the steady hand for carving wood is for the guests is to welcome “Prelude to the Afternoon a public university dedicated heritage of the fi ve Nordic into a ornate chest or weaving you by saying “Hello, and where of a Faun”, moves into to excellence in education, countries of Denmark, Finland, a rug with a loom right before are you from?” This standard “Pulcinella” by Igor scholarship, and community Iceland, Norway and Sweden. your eyes. Høstfest greeting may actually Stravinsky and Faure’s engagement achieved With this many heritages This festival is not just for win you money if you fi nd the incidental music to the play through rigorous academic represented the North Dakota adults either. Children are more secret person hidden among the State Fair Center takes on a than welcome as well. There crowds. “Pelleas and Melisande,” and experiences, active learning whole new personifi cation. are many events for the children For more information about ends with composer Franz environments, commitment to The diff erent hallways are to become excited about and the festival or to purchase your Liszt’s “Le Prelude.” public service, and a vibrant ornately decorated and each participate in such as the arts tickets, visit Hostfest.com. While this is the Minot campus life. named after a capital city from & crafts and the ever popular As they say in Norwegian Symphony Orchestra’s 93rd each country. On your way Viking Games. They may even “Kos Deg!” (Enjoy yourself!) season, this will be Amaya’s fourth. “This will be my fourth SEPTEMBER 29 season as music director. I’ve had many highlights during my tenure. I guess the ones Boxing that stand out the most to me are the concerts when I have featured pieces of mine. As Night I’m a composer as well as a Live boxing action with conductor, it’s always a treat a great card of fighters! for me to be able to conducts my own music. Some concerts OCT. 5 & 6 that stand out are the ones Work hard, OCT. 26 & 27 involving the chorus that & have joined us in several hunt far concerts through these past three years. Choirs like the ride smooth Minot High School Choir, the MSU Concert Choir, the FOUR chances to WIN a Polaris RANGER 500 4x4! Minot Chamber Chorale, the Western Plains Orchestra Children Chorus, among THE AUSTRALIAN others,” Amaya said. 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one time; two times; three times; 10 who had volunteered to serve his times – they have to do it 25 times,” country in the best way he knew how. said Duford. “Once they got inside It was hoped that a fi lm the airplane, they had no place to run. documenting a bomber crew as they There were no foxholes to be dug. successfully completed a combat The skin on those airplanes is so thin tour would calm new recruits, who that a bullet or fl ak fragment would were hearing stories of the carnage go through it like a tin can because overseas, and assuage the doubts of that’s essentially what it was. the public, press and politicians that “The odds were that every 18 strategic bombing was a failure. missions, a heavy bomber was going Wyler, an immigrant who was to be shot down. So when you think born in the Alsace region of modern- the crew had to fi nish 25 missions to day France when it was part of the go home, statistically it was nearly German Empire prior to World War impossible. It was one-in-four odds I and who would go on to win three that a heavy bomber recruit would Best Director Academy Awards, fi nish their 25 missions. Those other including one for “Ben-Hur”, was three crew members would’ve been commissioned as a major and shot down and captured, killed or headed to England with a fi lm crew wounded so badly they couldn’t to document the fi ght in skies over fi nish their tour.” Europe. The fact the “Memphis Belle” Wyler and his cameraman fl ew Dates to crew survived their tour was of great with B-17 combat crews and began OUTDOOR NOTES: value to the U.S. Army Air Forces in fi lming missions of a B-17F of the Know: maintaining support for the daylight 401st Bomb Squadron of the 91st *Beware Of Blue-Green Algae On *Lake Sakakawea/Missouri River, Scott’s Area Lakes And Wetlands With Weather Bait & Tackle, Pick City: Missouri River strategic bombing campaign over Bomb Group named “Invasion II”. • Sept. 29: Tundra swan And Water Conditions Prime For The Continues Producing Some Walleye Down Europe, which was still, in fact, an His staff also began interviewing and season opens. Deadly Toxin Growth. Keep Dogs Out River Using Lindy Rigs With Plastics. Also experiment. making publicity photographs of the • Sept. 29: Nonresident Of Any Questionable Water Because It’s Try Crankbaits. Chutes Fair For A Mix Of “Back then, there was no book on crewmembers, as they drew closer to Deadly And Death Can Occur Rapidly. Species, Mostly Salmon, With Walleye And high altitude strategic bombing. The completing 25 missions. waterfowl season opens. *Look For Fewer Wetlands Across Occasional Trout. Try Trolling Crankbaits. generals didn’t know any more than However, on April 17, 1943, the • Sept. 29: Bike your park Much Of N.D., Which Could Concentrate Some Activity At Night From Shore. Look we did. They had to fi gure bombing reality of war spoiled the Hollywood day, fort stevenson state park, Waterfowl And Hunters. For Trout From Shore During Both Day strategy as we went along,” said ending during their 23rd mission garrison, 1 p.M. *No Baiting Allowed On Fish & Wildlife And Night Hours. Most Salmon Shore- Morgan in a book he would write to , . Invasion II Nat’l. Wildlife Refuges & Waterfowl Fishing Activity Is Around Government Bay after the war, “The Man Who Flew crashed after being hit by fl ak over • Sept. 29 & 30: Youth Production Areas & Game & Fish Dept. But Also Try Scoria Bay Or The Intake Area Wildlife Mgmt. Areas. Using Crankbaits Or Spoons. Also Try the Memphis Belle”. Borhmen, Germany, setting the pheasant season. The B-17 was named the “Flying cockpit and wing on fi re. The crew • Sept. 29: Run the refuge *Be Careful Of Upland Species Salmon Eggs From Shore. Some Success Identifi cation With Immature Pheasants Downrigging Yet In Deeper Water. Work Fortress”, because it was bristling managed to bail out, but all became 5k run, Upper Souris Nat’l. Yet. Deep In 50 Feet For Walleye Using Jigging with .50 caliber machine guns prisoners of war. Wildlife Refuge (nwr), 10 a.M. Fishing: Raps. covering every angle of attack by Wyler regrouped and found a $25 Registration fee. Contact Lake Sakakawea Elevation, Sept. 25: * Lake Sakakawea, Scenic 23, New German fi ghters, save one. The plane and crew with the 324th 1,844.16 Feet Above Mean Sea Level Town: A Nice Fall Walleye Bite Around The theory was that all that defensive Bomb Squadron that was also close [email protected] or (Msl); 31,000 Cubic Feet Per Second (Cfs) Midsection. Work Shallower With Jigs And fi repower would be amplifi ed to completing their combat tour. (www.Facebook.Com/ Garrison Dam Average Daily Releases. Minnows. by heavy bombers fl ying in tight The “Memphis Belle”, named for Friendsofthesourislooprefuges. Devils Lake Elevation: 1,448.57 Feet * Lake Sakakawea, Van Hook Bait & formations, called “boxes”, enabling Morgan’s girlfriend, Margaret Polk Above Mean Sea Level (Msl). Tackle, New Town: Bait Shop Closed But Com) for information. Stump Lake Elevation: 1,448.41 Msl. Camping Still Available. them to protect each other from of Memphis, Tennessee, and its crew • Sept. 30: Upper souris *N.D. Game & Fish Dept. Game *Lonetree Wma Area Lakes, Harvey: attacking fi ghters. took center stage. While the German Messerschmitt While the crew of “Hell’s Angels” nwr closes to boat activity on Wardens: Devils Lake Starting To Produce Look For A Bit Of A Fall Walleye Bite From Some Larger Walleye In Shallower Water. Wells And Sheridan County Lakes. and Focke-Wulf fi ghters sometimes completed their tour on May 13, lake darling and its 2 canoe A Few Anglers Still On Lake Metigoshe *North-Central/Central N.D. Lakes, paid a price for attacking the 1943, four days before the “Belle”, trails. With Generally Quiet Success. No Towner Hdwe. Hank, Towner: Area Lakes formations, they soon developed there was no fi lm of that plane • Sept. 30: Elk and moose Missouri River System Reports. Generally Remain Quiet. tactics that exploited a design and crew. Consequently, it was the archery seasons close (lottery *Devils Lake, Ed’s Bait Shop, Devils Hunting: weakness in B-17Fs, like the “Belle” and its crew that would fl y Lake: Continued Working Bridges In The *Cranes: Look For Cranes To Start “Memphis Belle.” mission 26 back to the U.S. and licenses). Morning And Evening For Small Walleye. Trickling Into Pockets Of Northwest N.D. In While twin .50 caliber machine receive a hero’s welcome. • Oct. 5: Pronghorn gun Try Jigs And Slip Bobbers With Minnows. Areas With Shallow Alkali Wetlands. Some White Bass Mixed In. *Doves: Fewer Birds With Cooler guns in top and belly turrets and Wyler’s fi lm, “Memphis Belle: A season open (lottery licenses). *Devils Lake, Woodland Resort, Devils Weather Moving Them Out. the tail and single .50 cal. gunners Story of a Flying Fortress”, would • Oct. 6: Pheasant season Lake: Continued Good Small Walleye *Upper Souris Nwr, Foxholm: Unit I protected the bomber, the 12 o’clock be released and distributed by opens. Success. Try Jigging Deep Water Around Currently Open For Partridge And Grouse position was covered by a lone .30 Paramount Pictures the following The Highways, Poles, And Bridges. Hunting With Unit Ii Opening Nov. 26. caliber machine gun – no match for year. *Lake Darling, Ruthville Store, Ruthville: *Waterfowl: Fair To Good Numbers the German fi ghters. Because the It was a fi lm that came with a Lake Darling Slowed For Activity With Of Local Ducks And Geese. Scattered bomber formations had to fl y straight high price tag. One of Wyler’s Cooler Weather And Wind. Numbers Of Lesser Canada Geese Could and level to initiate their bombing cinematographers, 1st Lt. Harold *Lake Darling, Upper Souris Nat’l. Start To Meander Into Some Areas. No run, the Luftwaff e fi ghter pilots began J. Tannenbaum, a veteran of World Wildlife Refuge, Foxholm: Little Shore Or New Reports From Central N.D. attacking the formations head on. The War I, was killed in action during the Boat Fishing Activity On Lake Darling. *Lake Metigoshe, Four ensuing carnage was ghastly. fi lming when the bomber he was in Seasons, Bottineau: Not Much “The secret to the B-17 was was shot down over France on April Activity On Lake Metigoshe With the capability of fl ying in tight 16, 1943. Cooler, Windy Weather. formations, so tight that the wings Until the end of the war, the *Lake Metigoshe, Lake were often almost touching,” wrote “Belle” was used as a training Metigoshe State Park, Bottineau: Morgan. “We were able to put out an aircraft, but instead of being torn No New Reports. amazing amount of fi repower… but, apart for scrap like most of the other *Lake Sakakawea/Lake I also positively feel that was a bit of 12,700 B-17s built during the war, Audubon, Cenex Bait & Tackle, divine intervention for our crew.” the city of Memphis, Tennessee, put Garrison: Not Many Anglers While the addition of Allied fi ghter the aircraft on display for nearly 50 On The Water. Limited Reports From Lake Sakakawea And Lake escorts helped fend off some German years. Audubon With Cooler Weather. attackers, the fact that the B-17s The historic aircraft came to *Lake Sakakawea/Lake had to fl y at 25,000 feet or lower to the National Museum of the U.S. Audubon, 6-Mile Bait & Tackle, maintain any semblance of accuracy Air Force in October 2005, when Garrison: Work A Little Shallower on target put them in the range of the work began on a careful, multi-year For Walleye In 20 To 25 Feet deadly German 88mm anti-aircraft conservation and restoration eff ort With Jigging Raps Going West gun. No amount of machine guns or including corrosion treatment and the From Deepwater Bay To The Main friendly fi ghters could counter the full outfi tting of missing equipment. River Around New Town On Lake dense fl ak approaching targets while Casey Simmons arrived shortly Sakakawea. Also Try Jigs And fl ying straight and level. after the “Memphis Belle” as a Minnows. No Reports From Lake Bomber crews had to just grit their restoration specialist for the museum. Audubon Or The Missouri River. teeth and pray. From the beginning, it was “They felt like they were a apparent that priority one in the great crew. They were tightly knit, restoration was getting it right. His confi dent and dedicated to what they fi rst assignment was to fabricate a were doing,” said Duford. “However, glycol heater that was missing from being in those formations, fl ying inside the left wing. No visitor to the straight and level with enemy anti- museum would ever see it. CONGRATULATIONS! aircraft and fi ghter aircraft, there “I know it’s there and that’s cool certainly was a little bit of luck for because it’s going to get all the them too.” parts that it needs to be a complete Luck, both good and bad, was also aircraft,” said Simmons. “When you ABIGAIL & BLAKE a factor in the “Belle” crew, despite don’t have the part you try and fi nd a not being the fi rst crew to complete part from another airplane or you go 25 missions, being the one to return to the blueprints and make the part GUFFEY to the U.S. for a bond and morale completely from scratch.” tour. While the museum has other The “Belle’s” selection for the B-17s in its collection, the “Memphis Photo Submittedtted by: Sandra Sandr Guffey morale tour was the result of a fi lm Belle” requires a whole other level of project about the strategic bombing patience and dedication. campaign that was the brainchild “Other restoration projects are of USAAF Gen. Hap Arnold and a Hollywood director, William Wyler, Continued on page 11 10 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 NORTHERN SENTRY NORTHERN SENTRY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 11

“MEMPHIS BELLE” EFMP SUMMIT PILOT TRAINING from page 4 from page 9 from page 2 typically a general model of a certain A few of the key points taken aircraft. So it represents a lot of them. from the 2018 event included This one is a specifi c aircraft, so you the need to enhance career have to get it right; exactly to the planning guidance for new rivet,” said Simmons. EFMP enrollees, creating more The museum specialist did not try awareness for EFMP social to restore the “Belle” to how it rolled media sites such as Facebook off the Boeing line, but utilized fi lms, and YouTube and implementing photos and records from its time in improvements to the new EFMP combat to bring the B-17F back to enrollee orientation course, fi ghting trim, scars and all. slated to debut in January 2019. “There are certain damage spots Senior Master Sgt. Nathan on the “Memphis Belle” that were Yeaworth, a cyber systems fi xed over time, so we have to make manager at RAF Lakenheath, sure that those show up on the aircraft United Kingdom, has been the way they were,” said Simmons. enrolled in EFMP for about “If they put fi ve rivets in an area as four years and has three family opposed to the standard four that are members with educational supposed to be there, we have to get challenges. that correct… When you go through “I took a lot of notes from video footage, old fi lm footage, or the summit and plan to share photographs, and you do fi nd a little this information with our junior glimpse of what you’re looking for, Airmen at our squadron calls,” that’s a big moment. We have to get it Yeaworth said. “Although some right for those bomber crews.” program improvements still The bravery of those bomber crews need to be made, this was a continued after all the whoopla back good meeting going forward. It home died down. Even Morgan was included a good mix of enlisted Second Lt. Austin Sneed, Pilot Training Next student, trains on a virtual reality fl ight simulator at the Armed Forces eager to get back in the fi ght. members, offi cers and civilians Reserve Center in Austin, Texas, June 18, 2018. Air Education and Training Command offi cials announced the sec- While on a morale tour stop in who provided good feedback.” ond iteration of Pilot Training Next would begin in January 2019 during a panel at the 2018 Air Force Association Wichita, Kansas, Morgan caught EFMP enrollment has doubled Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md. a glimpse of the future of strategic since 2009. More than 31,000 U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO | SEAN M. WORRELL bombing, the still secret B-29 active-duty enlisted members Superfortress. He volunteered and offi cers with one or more immediately to train on the new takeaways we learned is the designed to teach students and cadre a better sense of exceptional family members are fact that PTN students having how to fl y, priming them for progression through the bomber and earned command of his enrolled in the program. own squadron of B-29s that deployed Enrollment in EFMP is autonomy and individualized transition training at fl ying program, as well as provide to Saipan in the Pacifi c Theater. mandatory for all active-duty training, as opposed to the training units is a major interim goals.” On November 24, 1944, his 869th Airmen who have a family traditional UPT students’ set consideration for PTN offi cials Squadron of the 497th Bomb Group member with special needs. syllabus, really sped up student as they look ahead to the PTN Moving Forward was the fi rst, other than Doolittle’s The program is limited to the learning,” Vicars said. “While second class. Before the next class begins, Raiders in 1942, to bomb Tokyo. He Airman’s spouse, child or other this approach created sortie “In terms of preparing UPT the PTN team has plenty would go on to complete another 24 person actually residing in scheduling challenges, we students for the transition to of work ahead of them to combat missions in the B-29 before the Airman’s household who are looking at more adaptive follow-on training, we found get ready to incorporate the the end of WWII. He retired from the is dependent on the Airman U.S. Air Force Reserve in 1965 as a scheduling tools to help with we need to build integrated lessons learned, including for fi nancial support and that problem.” fl ying training unit teams with student selection and colonel. meets Department of Defense While the restoration and display Another lesson learned was representation from 19th Air partnerships with accessioning enrollment criteria as a military one that while the instructor Force, the diff erent major sources, Colburn said. of the “Memphis Belle” will health care benefi ciary. ensure the story of the dedication, All Airman and Family pilots intentionally took a very commands, and the FTUs,” The next PTN class will bravery and airmanship of its 10 Readiness Centers have a open approach to training that Colborn said. “By having those approach student selection with crewmembers that returned home staff member assigned to help valued options-based choices, open lines of communication a more holistic approach, with safely in 1943 honors all the Airmen enhance the quality of life of there was a need to create a and refi ning the training for the applicants being selected based that fought in WWII, Duford is Airmen and their special needs more structured approach to later phases of the program, on a battery of test results, particularly enthusiastic that the family members as well as the individual’s options during we can smooth the students’ including psychological, exhibit will allow Museum of U.S. members not offi cially enrolled training to allow for a more transition out of PTN to the cognitive and intelligence tests, Air Force visitors to learn the story of in the program. meaningful experience, said FTUs.” said Vicars. the little known 11th crewmember of “For new EFMP families, Vicars. Creating concrete milestones the “Memphis Belle”. it can be a confusing time,” As much as any Airman, he “In the next iteration, we for students using the PTN In a partnership with the Yeaworth said, “but they do will have the students use curriculum will also be a U.S. Air Force Academy in embodied the spirit and sense of not have to shoulder the burden duty shared by all the heavy bomber the learning management priority for the next class. Colorado Springs, Colorado, alone.” system with an AI-enabled “While individualized PTN will also have a crews. “It’s the story of one of The EFMP broadcasts can the waist gunners, Emerson Scott be found on AFPC’s YouTube search engine to help training provides uncertainty in simulator-only distance Miller,” said Duford. “You don’t see channel at www.YouTube. aggregate relevant content terms of a student’s progress, learning program to help him in any of the war bond photos com/AFPCPA. For more based on machine-generated, there are ways that can help determine the value of full and you don’t see his name listed information, go to the EFMP- performance-based search add certainty to student access to relevant learning as one of the ‘Memphis Belle’ crew Assignments Facebook page terms,” said Vicars, “We will outfl ows,” Vicars said. “This materials and AI-support members. He came overseas as a at https://www.facebook.com/ also give them more robust will give both the student training. technician repairing the autopilot EFMPAssignments/?tn-str=k*F emergency procedures training systems on B-17s. He was safe. He or visit https://www.afpc.af.mil/ to help build airmanship.” didn’t have to fl y the missions but Benefi ts-and-Entitlements/ he decided he wanted to do more Additionally, striking Exceptional-Family-Member- the right balance between and volunteered to fl y in combat. Program/. He joined the ‘Memphis Belle’ crew making early aircraft platform after they had fl own about nine or 10 tracks, such as (combat air of their missions. So he had fl own forces, mobility air forces, 16 of his missions when the rest of or special operations forces), the ‘Memphis Belle’ crew completed and providing common their 25th. experiences that create a “Capt. Robert Morgan really typical pilot, are topics being wanted Scott Miller to come back on addressed. the war bond tour, but Miller hadn’t fi nished his 25th mission, so he had Program Considerations to stay. While the ‘Belle’ crew was celebrated and famous and there were While the training is parties for them, Scott Miller was still fl ying in combat.” Fittingly, Miller fi nished his 25th mission aboard another B-17 on July 4, 1943, but for him, there were no parades, no press conferences, no NORTHERN SENTRY meeting movie stars and no special duties. “We got in touch with Scott Miller’s family,” said Duford. “They donated a trunk full of artifacts, and 839.0946 | [email protected] so Scott Miller has a place in the exhibit and his story will be told… He could have just simply done his duty repairing those autopilot systems and gone home safe. But he put his life on the line and then Place an AD here for as little as $40.00 per week! was forgotten. Now he’s going to be remembered now and for generations to come.” 12 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 NORTHERN SENTRY HUSBAND-WIFE PILOTS RETIRE from page 4 that has a mission so vital to had nervously carried around the B-2 with the Missouri ANG married. “We’re excited for this next deterrence and global safety,” a diamond engagement ring in is certainly a win, said Justin There was an equal division phase of our lives,” John said. she said of the $2.2 billion his pocket until “just the right Grieve, 509th Bomb Wing of labor and no struggle for Retired, together stealth bomber that is capable of moment.” Operations Group commander. control in the aircraft, Jennifer At their offi cial retirement both nuclear and conventional On Feb. 5, 2005, the “At Whiteman, we train elite remembers, much like at home. September ceremony at missions. “To be one of the few couple married in Colorado. aviators to fl y the world’s most Through the years, the couple Whiteman AFB, standing in pilots to fl y this aircraft that is the Deployments and training kept strategic airplane. Whether they learned to divide parental and front of their families and closest backbone of nuclear security was them apart during their fi rst four do that through active duty or domestic duties, as well as to friends, John and Jennifer were an amazing prospect.” months of marriage, though they the Guard, we’re all B-2 pilots make sacrifi ces for the benefi t of presented medals for outstanding She was accepted into the did end up with overlapping defending the homeland.” the other. military service and certifi cates program and began training short-term assignments in Guam It’s that partnership between “We were able to support each of appreciations from the shortly thereafter. Her fi rst fl ight and were able to live together on an active-duty wing and a other and fully appreciate the president of the United States in the B-2 was on Feb. 12, 2002, the island. They were thankful Guard wing, called total-force other’s successes and failures before the reading of the orders making her the fi rst woman to fl y to be together then, but always integration, that the Averys because we knew exactly what declaring they were “relieved the B-2 stealth bomber. Now, 16 careful to not request preferential helped execute, Eaves said, the other person was going from duty and retired.” years later, seven other women treatment because of their adding, “Jennifer and John have through,” John said. Refl ecting back on the rigors of have become B-2 pilots and marriage – or when they had been trailblazers in the truest “We’re a team,” Jennifer said pilot training, the long hours and others are now in training. children, fi rst their son Austin, sense of the defi nition. Literally simply. irregular schedules, life’s daily In March 2003, she would now 12, and then their daughter making history on active duty The Averys have no doubt demands, the ups and downs of do again what no other woman Elizabeth, now 9. and in the Guard, that wasn’t this unity will continue now that marriage and parenthood, the before her had accomplished. Balancing demanding mission something they set out to do. It’s they’ve left the Air Force. The stresses of leadership positions, Jennifer fl ew a mission in and training schedules continued just who they are.” family of four moved to Boise, worry from combat deployments, support of Operation Iraqi to compete with family life. Working together Idaho, which fi t their criteria of John and Jennifer remember the Freedom, becoming the fi rst Jennifer remembers John’s The B-2 brought John and living in a medium-sized city in good. woman to fl y the B-2 in combat. deployment when Austin was Jennifer back together, and also the West, near the mountains and “Yes, it was hard,” John Today, she is still the only just a baby and the guilt she felt made them the team they are full of outdoor recreation. remembers. “There was a lot of woman to have fl own the B-2 when he was the last child to now, the couple said. The kids started their new give and take on both sides. We combat. be picked up at daycare, as well Air Force regulations don’t schools. John fl ies the B-767 look back though, and have the “Jen is a trailblazer,” Kennish as the exhaustion from single- allow spouses to fl y in the same for FedEx and Jennifer works best memories.” said. “Her career has been parenthood and a demanding aircraft with each other, but as a Department of Defense “We did it. All the way nothing short of spectacular. And job. Day-to-day was tough, plus John and Jennifer did fl y one consultant for fl ying-related through,” Jennifer said. the same can certainly be said for Jennifer faced moving for her sortie together in the T-38 Talon acquisitions. Both have private “Together.” John, who chased Jen from South next assignment while John was training jet before they were pilot’s licenses. Dakota all the way to Missouri.” required to fi nish his assignment Move to Missouri at Whiteman. John grew up in Great Falls, So in 2007, rather than face Montana, where he watched F-16 separating her family, Jennifer Fighting Falcon fi ghter jets from decided to leave her active-duty a nearby base fl y overhead. career. “I really wanted to fl y,” John “That was the hardest day,” said. “And I joined the Air Jennifer remembers. “That drive Force because I wanted to fl y to work was emotional. But, I DIRECTORY cool planes. I knew being a felt in good conscience it was military pilot, I would be serving the right decision. At the same my country and have a pretty time, a lot of people believed incredible day-to-day job at the in me. I’d had so much support same time.” along the way, including from He completed an economics John. In the end, I knew it was RECYCLING degree at Carleton College, only myself I needed to worry Minnesota, and later was about letting down and I hadn’t commissioned as a second disappointed myself. I felt like I Friday, September 21 - Friday, October 26 lieutenant through the U.S. Air had accomplished so much and Force Offi cer Training School I’m proud I did those things. (OTS) in 1999. He earned his More than anything, I just want pilot wings in 2000, and soon my kids to be proud of their was stationed at Ellsworth AFB, mom.” LOCATIONS NEAR YOU / South Dakota, to fl y the B-1. After holding civilian positions Jennifer was already there and at Whiteman AFB, Jennifer remembers wondering, “Who’s joined the Missouri ANG at the new pilot?” Whiteman and resumed fl ying Berthold United Agronomy The fi rst time John saw her, he as a B-2 pilot. Again, her path remembers wondering why she was unprecedented as the fi rst Butte Country Foods was late to the parachute safety and only female B-2 pilot in the class they were both taking. And, ANG. Glenburn Enerbase Cenex that he wanted to meet her. 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