Let the games begin

FORWARD OPERATING LOCATION MANTA, Ecuador -- Senior Airman Willy Bullicer, 478th Expeditionary Operations Squadron security forces member, deployed from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., stretches before a 4x300-meter relay competition at the Ecuadorian Air Force sports competition. The six-week competition features basketball, volleyball, soccer and track events. (US Air Force Photo/1Lt. Lauren Wright)

Let the games begin

FORWARD OPERATING LOCATION MANTA, Ecuador -- Senior Airman Willy Bullicer, 478th Expeditionary Operations Squadron security forces member, deployed from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., stretches before a 4x300-meter relay competition at the Ecuadorian Air Force sports competition. The six-week competition features basketball, volleyball, soccer and track events. (US Air Force Photo/1Lt. Lauren Wright)

Let the games begin

FORWARD OPERATING LOCATION MANTA, Ecuador -- Airmen from the 478th Expeditionary Operations Squadron and members of the Ecuadorian Air Force watch opening ceremonies for the Ecuadorian Air Force sports competition. The six-week competition features basketball, volleyball, soccer and track events. (US Air Force Photo/1Lt. Lauren Wright)

FOL welcomes foreign military members

Approximately 20 attaches and instructors representing 10 militaries throughout the world receive a Unit Mission Brief from Lt. Col. Jared Patrick Curtis, 478th Expeditionary Operations Squadron commander, here October 3. (US Air Force photo/1Lt. Lauren Wright)

Uruguay

Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, the Twelfth Air Force (Air Forces Southern) commander, stands in formation with Gen. Enrique Bonelli, the Commander in Chief of the Uruguayan Air Force, Ambassador Frank Baxter, US Ambassador to Uruguay and members of the UAF during a ceremony to award AFSOUTH Airmen the Medal of Aeronautical Merit. The medal was awarded by the nation of Uruguay based on years of partnership and friendship between Airmen of the two Air Forces during cooperative events in the South American nation. (Photo provided by the Uruguayan Air Force)

PANAMAX 2008

U.S. servicemembers participating in a multinational exercise near Panama City, Panama, August 25, aided Panamanian ground forces in saving civilian and military aircraft from destruction after a fire engulfed an aircraft hangar at the military section of the Tocumen International Airport. More than 45 U.S. Airmen, Sailors and Soldiers, along with military and civilians from 21 countries, arrived here in early August to participate in Fuerzas Aliadis PANAMAX 2008, a U.S. Southern Command sponsored exercise that focuses on ensuring the defense of the Panama Canal – a strategic and economically crucial waterway.