Photo: Capt. Vanessa Mahan pauses after returning from a mission Sept. 15 at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan

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Her family expected her to be the one to go straight to college in pursuit of a medical degree. Instead, she’s found a happy medium, providing medical coverage for more than 60 soldiers at Joint Security Station 5.

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“Singing is a longtime passion of mine, so this was one way for me to bring a little bit of home out here,” said Kopczynski, the public affairs officer for the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Mayor Cell.

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Photo: Hospital Corpsman Crystal Jackson, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau (LHA 4), cuts up a fallen tree while working with Amphibious Construction Battalion (ACB) 2 during the clean up of Scholes International Airport in Galveston, Texas.

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It sounds like a military recruiter’s dream: click on an online banner ad, become an Air Force recruit. That’s exactly what happened for an aircrew flight equipment combat air adviser with the 770th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron.

Tech. Sgt. Shaun Cox was looking to apply an associate’s degree in tour and travel to a job in 1998 when she saw an advertisement that said, “Be a travel agent for the military.” Cox, who had long considered joining the military, followed the link to a description of the Air Force’s travel management office career field.

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For Michelle Holmes, the secretary to Brig. Gen. Jefforey Smith, deputy commanding general – support, the 10th Mountain Division’s deployment to Iraq created a unique opportunity to share an experience that her husband, Roy, had already experienced five times – supporting military operations in a foreign land.

“I thought it would be exciting. It’s a chance to see what my husband [a first sergeant with 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment] does first hand,” said Holmes, a native of Fort Drum, N.Y.

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Pfc. Jessica Rush had a surprise waiting for her when she returned from morning physical training Sept. 2, 2008.

“I came around the T-wall, and there he was,” said Rush, a medic in Company C, 589th Brigade Support Company, 41st Fires Brigade, when she saw her dad, Sgt. 1st Class Warren Hill, standing before her.

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Sgt. Andrea Bills, who serves as a door gunner with Company A, 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regt. was originally assigned to 96th Aviation Support Battalion as a 63 J (Quartermaster and Chemical equipment repairer).

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Photos: Maria Kravchenko recites the oath of office Aug. 7 administered by retired Brig. Gen. James Albritton, a Kravchenko family friend, in Gainesville, Fla.

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Photo: Senior Airman Felicita Torres-Perkins is an Air Force medical technician deployed to the Zabul Provincial Reconstruction Team, or PRT.

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