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Dover Biery, a 509th Maintenance Squadron Key Spouse Mentor, poses for a portrait on March 15, 2019, at the Maintenance Professional of the Year Banquet at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. Biery was the recipient of the Joan Orr Spouse of the Year Award from Air Force Global Strike Command for 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Parker J. McCauley)

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Maj. Matt Thompson, the deputy staff judge advocate

Maj. Matt Thompson, the deputy staff judge advocate assigned to the 509th Bomb Wign Legal Office, poses for a portrait on March 12, 2019, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. Thompson won the Global Strike Command Young JAG award for 2018 for his dedication and accomplishments as the deputy SJA at Whiteman. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

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Chaplain Graham Baily receives Edwin R. Chess Award

Chaplain Capt. Graham Baily, assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing, poses for a portrait on Feb. 26, 2019, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. Baily and his ministry team were recognized by Global Strike Command for their outstanding performance with mutiple awards including the Edwin R. Chess, Charles R. Meier and Outstanding Religious Support Team awards. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

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Congresswoman Hartzler breaks ground on new Operations building

Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler, Brig. Gen. John Nichols, the 509th Bomb Wing Commander, Col. Ken Eaves, the 131st Bomb Wing Commander, U.S. Army Col. Doug Guttormsen, the commander of the Kansas City District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kendall Nugent, the deputy commander of the 509th Mission Support Group, and Michael Eidson, Federal Division Operations Manager, hold shovels during groundbreaking ceremony on Feb. 22, 2019 at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. The ceremony officially began the construction of a new consolidated operations building to house the 509th and the 131st Operations Groups in one location. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Parker J. McCauley)

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Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler addresses Team Whiteman during groundbreaking ceremony for the new combined operations building on Feb. 22, 2019 at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. The new building is a physical step toward increasing total force cohesion between the 509th Operations Group and their National Guard counterparts, the 131st Operations Group. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Parker J. McCauley)(U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Parker J. McCauley)

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Combined Operations Building ground-breaking ceremony

Shovels used during groundbreaking ceremony for new combined operations building on Feb. 22, 2019, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler led the event which kicked off construction. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Parker J. McCauley)

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Whiteman reflects on Air Force foremother: Ether McGowin Blake

Staff Sgt. Esther McGowin Blake poses for an official portrait. Blake was the first woman to enlist in the active-duty Air Force in July 1948. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)

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First woman to join Air Force poses with basic training class

Esther McGowin Blake with her Women’s Army Corps basic training class in May 1944 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Blake became the first woman to enlist in the active-duty Air Force in July 1948. (Maxwell Air Force Base and the Air University History Office courtesy photo)

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Kyrgyzstan native realizes her American dream in US Air Force

The father, mother and grandmother of Airman 1st Class Vera Schwenk, an avionics technician assigned to the 509th Maintenance Squadron, pose for a portrait with her as a baby during a family vacation to Issyk-Kul, a large salt-water lake just outside of her home town of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, known for its waterfalls and hiking trails. Schwenk immigrated to the United States when she was 16-years-old. (Courtesy photo)

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Kyrgyzstan native realizes her American dream in US Air Force

A photo of Airman 1st Class Vera Schwenk, an avionics technician assigned to the 509th Maintenance Squadron, standing in her boarding school classroom in Kyrgyzstan as a teenager. She emigrated from her home country to the United States at 16-years-old before joining the Air Force in 2017. (Courtesy photo)

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Kyrgyzstan native realizes her American dream in US Air Force

Airman 1st Class Vera Schwenk, an avionics technician assigned to the 509th Maintenance Squadron, adjusts electrical cables of the Versatile Diagnostics Automatic Test Station on Jan. 25, 2019, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. Schwenk uses the VDAT to run diagnotic tests on the electrical components of the B-2 Spirit. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

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Kyrgyzstan native realizes her American dream in US Air Force

Airman 1st Class Vera Schwenk, an avionics technician assigned to the 509th Maintenance Squadron, logs the findings of the Versatile Diagnostics Automatic Test Station on Jan. 25, 2019, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. Schwenk uses the VDAT to test the electrical components of the B-2 Stealth Bomber for maintenance needs. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

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Kyrgyzstan native realizes her American dream in US Air Force

Airman 1st Class Vera Schwenk, an avionics technician assigned to the 509th Maintenance Squadron, removes a panel from a part of the Versatile Diagnostics Automatic Test Station on Jan. 25, 2019, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. Schwenk tests all electrical components of the B-2 Spirit using the VDAT. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

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Kyrgyzstan native realizes her American dream in US Air Force

An opposition-captured vehicle burns near the capitol building during citywide protests and riots in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on April 7, 2010. Guards can be seen to the left of the smoke. (Courtesy photo)

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Kyrgyzstan native realizes her American dream in US Air Force

Kyrgyz entering the otherwise-closed White House lawn following protests in Bishkek on April 7, 2010. (Courtesy photo)

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Kyrgyzstan native realizes her American dream in US Air Force

Airman 1st Class Vera Schwenk, an avionics technician assigned to the 509th Maintenance Squadron, poses for a portrait on Jan. 25, 2019, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. Schwenk joined the Air Force in 2017 after immigrating from Kyrgyzstan when she was 16-years-old. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

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Stealth pilots, high school students collaborate to create innovative part for $2.2 billion aircraft

U.S. Air Force Maj. Joseph Manglitz, a B-2 evaluator pilot at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, was one of the Airmen who worked closely with the high school students, guiding them in their design and printing processes of the protective panels for the aircrafts’ cockpits. “It was impressive to see the ingenuity and the initiative in each of these students,” Manglitz said. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

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Stealth pilots, high school students collaborate to create innovative part for $2.2 billion aircraft

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. John J. Nichols, a B-2 pilot and commander of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, tapped the local high school robotics team, asking students to collaborate with Airmen to create a cover for four-switch panel in the B-2’s two-person cockpit. Together, they created a 3-D printed piece that is now used in all 20 of the $2.2 billion aircrafts. “This is an unbelievable story of partnering and innovation,” Nichols said. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

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Stealth pilots, high school students collaborate to create innovative part for $2.2 billion aircraft

Students on the Knob Noster High School robotics team designed a protective panel that covers four switches in the cockpit of the $2.2 billion B-2 Stealth Bomber. Each panel costs $1.25 to produce. A four-switch panel called the airframe mounted accessory drive, or AMAD, sits on the left side of the B-2’s two-person cockpit. The AMAD switches control the connection of the engines to the hydraulic and generator power of the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

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Stealth pilots, high school students collaborate to create innovative part for $2.2 billion aircraft

A four-switch panel called the airframe mounted accessory drive, or AMAD, sits on the left side of the B-2’s two-person cockpit. The AMAD switches control the connection of the engines to the hydraulic and generator power of the aircraft. Several stealth bomber pilots at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, recently collaborated with the local high school robotics team to design and 3-D print the protective covers for the panels. Now, all 20 B-2s at Whiteman use the panel covers during flight. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

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