Valley resident earns wings as ‘Airman for a Day’

Senior Airman Jeff Watson shows Trevion Worthy how he refuels other Air Force jets from the boom pod of a KC-135 Stratotanker along his journey as ‘Airman for a Day’ at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Nov. 2, 2012. Watson is a 92nd Air Refueling Squadron boom operator. Tre was the second youth to participate in the program at Fairchild that gives children a break from challenges they face on a day-to-day basis. Tre has been fighting Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and undergone almost two years of chemo therapy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Stratton)

Valley resident earns wings as ‘Airman for a Day’

Trevion Worthy sizes up a KC-135 Stratotanker’s engine in the maintenance hangar along his journey as ‘Airman for a Day’ at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Nov. 2, 2012. Tre was the second youth to participate in the program at Fairchild that gives children a break from challenges they face on a day-to-day basis. Tre has been fighting Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and undergone almost two years of chemo therapy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Stratton)

Valley resident earns wings as ‘Airman for a Day’

Airman 1st Class Casey Blackmon explains to Trevion Worthy how he and those like him train pilots how to be rescued by a helicopter at the survival school along his journey as ‘Airman for a Day’ at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Nov. 2, 2012. Blackmon is a 22nd Training Squadron survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist. Tre was the second youth to participate in the program at Fairchild that gives children a break from challenges they face on a day-to-day basis. Tre has been fighting Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and undergone almost two years of chemo therapy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Stratton)

Valley resident earns wings as ‘Airman for a Day’

Trevion Worthy “parachutes” in the survival school’s parachuting simulator along his journey as ‘Airman for a Day’ at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Nov. 2, 2012. Tre was the second youth to participate in the program at Fairchild that gives children a break from challenges they face on a day-to-day basis. Tre has been fighting Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and undergone almost two years of chemo therapy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Stratton)

Valley resident earns wings as ‘Airman for a Day’

Airman Joshua Earhart assists Trevion Worthy as he mans the fire hose during his time at the fire department along his journey as ‘Airman for a Day’ at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Nov. 2, 2012. Earhart is a 92nd Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter. Tre was the second youth to participate in the program at Fairchild that gives children a break from challenges they face on a day-to-day basis. Tre has been fighting Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and undergone almost two years of chemo therapy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Stratton)

Valley resident earns wings as ‘Airman for a Day’

Trevion Worthy is talked with by Lt. Col. Matt Albright about the effects of hypoxia and disorientation on pilots as Staff Sgt. Vikas Kumar looks on during his stop at aerospace physiology along his journey as ‘Airman for a Day’ at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Nov. 2, 2012. Albright is the 92nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron aerospace physiological training flight commander and Kumar is a 92nd AMDS aerospace physiology technician. Tre was the second youth to participate in the program at Fairchild that gives children a break from challenges they face on a day-to-day basis. Tre has been fighting Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and undergone almost two years of chemo therapy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Stratton)