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January 19, 2018 | Volume 42, Number 3

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Survival: 10% physical, 90% mental by Senior Airman Elizabeth Baker 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs Humans are designed to survive. Yet, history has shown that when stranded in survival setting, there have been some who made it out alive and some who did not. Perhaps, while some cannot change their outcome, some can. Tech. Sgt. Lee Young, is the 86th Operations Group Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape noncommissioned officer in charge. As a SERE instructor, Lee teaches survival techniques to air crew, special operations personnel, and other military members who are at high risk of isolation. From his experience, Lee concludes that survival is mostly in the mind. “Survival is 10 percent physical and 90 percent mental,” Lee said. “(It takes) someone who’s mentally strong and has the willpower to endure. These See SURVIVAL, Page 2

Tech. Sgt. Lee Young, 86th Operations Group Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape noncommissioned officer in charge, walks through the woods Jan. 11 on Ramstein Air Base. Lee, who has trained approximately 2,000 personnel on how to stay alive in austere conditions, believes that survival is 10 percent physical and 90 percent mental. Illustration by Senior Airman Elizabeth Baker

Ramstein Airman ignites innovation with spark of genius by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Bass 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs One 86th Communications Squadron Airman assigned to Ramstein Air Base took second place in the U.S. Air Forces in Europe’s Spark Tank competition. Airman 1st Class John Willman, 86th CS cyber defense analyst, won a $2,500 prize and a chance to win more and have the Air Force institute his idea at the headquarters Air Force competition later this year. Each major command submits two Airmen and their ideas for the headquarters competition.

According to the Air Force, the competition calls for Airmen to pitch their innovative ideas to senior leaders through the Airmen Powered by Innovation portal and culminates in a showcase of those ideas in Orlando, Florida. Willman, a Los Angeles, California native, designed a system to centralize the Windows 10 upgrade across the entire Air Force using the Windows Deployment Services and the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. “Currently, from base to base there’s not really a set way to do things,” Willman said. “They might use disks to image, which takes longer, some

may use a hard drive, or they might be doing practices which aren’t authorized anymore.” With Willman’s plan, the upgrade will be centralized at the headquarters level, and disseminated down from there. This way the process is more fluid, he added. “Both tools run on a server and you have your deployment share, which holds all the files for imaging, then you can link the deployment shares so the servers are all linked,” Willman explained. “So you can have your central master server and when you make changes on that it propagates to the rest of them. So if the Air Force

releases a new standard desktop configuration then they can publish it on the master, it will replicate to all the other servers.” Willman’s plan decreases installation time by 22 percent and increased the number of computers upgraded at a time from 8, to 45. “The only reason it’s 45 is because the shop that runs the program is constrained by power requirements,” Willman said. Willman plans to invest his USAFE prize money into cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin, and will do the same if he wins at the headquarters Air Force level.


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