Among the select airmen who specialize in training other airmen what to do should an enemy capture them is SSgt. Edmund Dawejko, who has been named the top Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) noncommissioned officer of 2006. Dawejko is assigned to the 18th Operations Support Squadron, at Kadena AB, Japan, on the island of Okinawa. After eight years on the job, the NCO says there is nothing he’d rather do, except perhaps be an Air Force pilot.
Amid NATO’s continued push to ramp up air defenses in Eastern Europe, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall swung by seven allied countries to boost relations last week, including those on Russia’s and Ukraine’s doorstep.