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Team McConnell announces 2009 annual award winners

Company Grade Officer Category, Capt. Christopher Macdonald, 349th Air Refueling Squadron. (courtesy photo)

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Team McConnell announces 2009 annual award winners

Senior NCO Category, Master Sgt. Peter Nusspickel, 22nd Security Forces Squadron. (courtesy photo)

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Team McConnell announces 2009 annual award winners

NCO Category, Staff Sgt. Matthew Hefti, 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron. (courtesy photo)

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Team McConnell announces 2009 annual award winners

Airman Category, Senior Airman Tina Girdano, 22nd Medical Support Squadron.(courtesy photo)

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Children’s Dental Health Month spotlights healthy smiles

February is National Children's Dental Health Month. This month parents should focus on scheduling children for routine checkups and ensuring they brush teeth two-to-three times a day, according to the 22nd Aerospace Medical Squadron officials. (Courtesy photo)

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OPSEC: a real-world game

A poster used during the World War II era, that reminded people to maintain good operational security measures. (Courtesy illustration)

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Tops In Blue entertains Wichita

Tops In Blue’s vocalists perform on stage at the Orpheum Theatre, Jan. 28, 2010, in Wichita, Kan. The entertainment group performs more than 120 shows each year, traveling worldwide. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Andrea Salazar)

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Tops In Blue performs for Wichita

Senior Airman Anthoney Williams, a Tops In Blue musician, plays a solo on his trumpet during a Tops In Blue performance at the Orpheum Theater, Jan. 28, 2010, in Wichita, Kan. Airman Williams, an active-duty civil engineer firefighter, joined 29 other Airmen from various Air Force careerfields, to be a part of the Air Force’s premier entertainment showcase, Tops In Blue. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Andrea Salazar)

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Tops In Blue performs for Wichita

Senior Airman Jennifer Bone, a vocalist, interacts with audience members at a Tops In Blue concert, Jan. 28, 2010, at the Orpheum Theater, Wichita Kan. Tops In Blue has been entertaining both military and civilian audiences for more than 55 years. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Justin Shelton)

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Tops In Blue performs for Wichita

Tops In Blue Airmen perform at the Orpheum Theatre, Jan. 28, 2010, in Wichita, Kan. Performers entertained local citizens with a mixture of different music including jazz, country and rhythm and blues. More than 900 members from the local community and McConnell Air Force Base. attended this year’s performance. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Andrea Salazar)

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Tops In Blue performs for Wichita

Airmen from Tops In Blue perform a musical skit, The Dreamettes, at the entertainment group’s performance at the Orpheum Theater, Jan. 28, 2010, in Wichita, Kan. The skit portrayed the struggles of a female singer as she attempts to become part of the fictional music ensemble during the 90 minute show. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Justin Shelton)

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Tops In Blue performs for Wichita

Staff Sgt. Timothy Womble, a Tops In Blue vocalist, performs a song during a Tops In Blue world tour at the Orpheum Theater, Jan. 28, 2010, in Wichita, Kan. Members of McConnell Air Force Base and the surrounding community enjoyed the free show despite cold weather conditions. Tops In Blue performs throughout the continental United States, Canada, Europe, Central America, Alaska, the Pacific and at various deployed locations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Andrea Salazar)

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On your mark, get set, GO!

Team McConnell members run their first lap around the running track, during a 5K fun-run, Jan. 21, 2010, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. The run was open to McConnell members and their families to boost morale and participate in group exercise. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Senior Airman Ruiz)

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Father meets son

Senior Airman Joshua Jackson, from the 22nd Logistics Readiness Squadron Flight Services Center, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., holds his 4-month-old, Kaden, for the first time, Jan. 6, 2010, at Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita, as his wife Tiffany stands alongside. Airman Jackson met Kaden after returning home from a six-month deployment to Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Amanda Currier)

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Energy conservation

Aircraft maintenance Airmen work under high bay fluorescent lighting, Jan. 5, 2009, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. In an effort to meet new government energy conservation expectations, the base is currently testing and installing more energy efficient resources such as brighter, energy-saving lights in aircraft hangars. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Jessica Lockoski)

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Tops in Blue

Airmen from Tops in Blue perform at the Orpheum Theater in Wichita, Kan. in January 2009. The group of performers are scheduled to come back to the theater for a new performance, free and open to the public, Jan. 28, 2009. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Laura Suttles)

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Base housing holiday contest winners announced

Col. Pat Rose, 22nd Mission Support Group commander, left, and Col. James Crowhurst, 22nd Air Refueling Wing commander, right present Senior Airman Matthew Cavazos, 22nd Logistics Readiness Squadron, and his wife Julie Cavazos a certificate for winning the title “Best of the Season,” Dec. 16, 2009, for a holiday light and decoration contest at Southwind housing at McConnell Air Force, Kan. Winners of the contest received gift certificates for places such as the base exchange, a local garden center and various 22nd Force Support Squadron services facilities. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Airman 1st Class Justin A. Shelton)

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Base housing holiday contest winners announced

Col. James Crowhurst, 22nd Air Refueling Wing commander, presents Kari Kirk, wife of Master Sgt. Gregory Kirk, 22nd Civil Engineering Squadron, a certificate winning the title “Most Elegant House,” Dec. 16, 2009, for a holiday light and decoration contest at Southwind housing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. Winners of the contest received gift certificates for places such as the base exchange, a local garden center and various 22nd Force Support Squadron services facilities. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Justin A. Shelton)

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McConnell members carol at Southwind

Team McConnell family members, Vivianne King and son Jaden, 11 months, step outside of their home in Southwind base housing to hear McConnell carolers sing holiday songs, Dec. 20, 2009, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. Carolers visited more than 130 homes in base housing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Chyrece Campbell)

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McConnell members carol at Southwind

Chaplain (Capt.) Robert Borger, 22nd Air Refueling Wing, plans the caroling routes prior to a chapel sponsored caroling event in Southwind base housing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., Dec. 20, 2009. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Chyrece Campbell)

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