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Viewing the inferno

Kris Major, City of Spokane Solid Waste Disposal education coordinator, shows the Waste to Energy plant’s incinerator to a visiting school group near Spokane, Wash., June 16, 2015. Waste, including garbage from Fairchild Air Force Base, is burned off to generate steam for electrical generators which help to power the community. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Sam Fogleman)
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Teaching future generations about sustainable electricity

Employees of the City of Spokane’s Waste to Energy plant discuss the inner workings of the facility’s control room with school students near Spokane, Wash., June 16, 2015. The non-profit facility generates enough power for 13,000 homes each day, using the revenue from the sale of electricity and dumping fees to fund its operations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Sam Fogleman)
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Collecting what has been discarded

The trash collection claw scoops up a load of refuse at the Waste to Energy plant near Spokane, Wash., June 16, 2015.Waste from Fairchild Air Force Base contributes to the 800 tons of trash the facility burns a day, resulting in enough electrical energy to power 13,000 homes. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Sam Fogleman)
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Waiting for trash

The trash collection claw looms behind a warning sign at the Waste to Energy plant in Spokane, Wash., June 16, 2015. The claw helps to deposit trash for burning in two boilers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Sam Fogleman)
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Burning off what you throw out

The City of Spokane’s Waste to Energy plant looms over its affiliated parking lot near Spokane, Washington, June 16, 2015. The plant burns up to 800 tons of garbage a day, and receives a portion of that waste from Fairchild Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Sam Fogleman)
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From airman to colonel: Coleman shares his story

Lt. Col. Matt Coleman, 92nd Air Refueling Wing chief of safety, soon to be commander of the 92nd Operations Support Squadron, began his career at Fairchild as an airman first class and returned to be a squadron commander at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. Coleman has more than 1,000 flight hours during six deployments in support of Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM, flying both the KC-135 Stratotanker and the C-17 Globemaster III. Coleman’s change of command is July 9, 2015. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Airman 1st Class Nicolo J. Daniello)
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Stowing what you throw out

A Sunshine Recycling and Disposal truck, operated by a contracted driver, disposes of articles of refuse from one of Fairchild Air Force Base’s many on-base dumpsters at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., June 9, 2015. The trash is then taken to the Waste to Energy plant in Spokane, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Sam Fogleman)
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Stowing what you throw out

A Sunshine Recycling and Disposal truck, operated by a contracted driver, disposes of articles of refuse from one of Fairchild Air Force Base’s many on-base dumpsters at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., June 9, 2015. The trash is then taken to the Waste to Energy plant in Spokane, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Sam Fogleman)
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Scanning in tight

Tech. Sgt. Gregory Kirchner, 92nd Maintenance Squadron aircraft metals technology craftsman, scans a KC-135 Stratotanker part with the unit’s new 3-D laser imaging arm March 25, 2015, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. This machine brings Fairchild up to par with the civilian machining world enabling the base to efficiently produce the best possible parts needed for maintaining air power around the world. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Benjamin W. Stratton)
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Scanning in tight

Tech. Sgt. Gregory Kirchner, 92nd Maintenance Squadron aircraft metals technology craftsman, scans a KC-135 Stratotanker part with the unit’s new 3-D laser imaging arm March 25, 2015, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. This machine brings Fairchild up to par with the civilian machining world enabling the base to efficiently produce the best possible parts needed for maintaining air power around the world. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Benjamin W. Stratton)
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Making it from scratch

Tech. Sgt. Gregory Kirchner, 92nd Maintenance Squadron aircraft metals technology craftsman, scans a KC-135 Stratotanker part with the unit’s new 3-D laser imaging arm March 25, 2015, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. The reverse engineering aspect of the ROMER Absolute Arm is extremely crucial as many parts needed to keep the KC-135 mission-capable are no longer made and with aircraft boneyards running out of spare useable parts, this technology’s importance couldn’t be timelier. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Benjamin W. Stratton)
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Scanning the part

Tech. Sgt. Gregory Kirchner, 92nd Maintenance Squadron aircraft metals technology craftsman, scans a KC-135 Stratotanker part with the unit’s new 3-D laser imaging arm March 25, 2015, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. The ROMER Absolute Arm is a portable measurement and 3-D scanning solution used to perform computer-aided design-to-part inspections and accurately capture 3-D features and freeform shapes for reverse engineering tasks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Benjamin W. Stratton)
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Scanning the part

Tech. Sgt. Gregory Kirchner, 92nd Maintenance Squadron aircraft metals technology craftsman, scans a KC-135 Stratotanker part with the unit’s new 3-D laser imaging arm March 25, 2015, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. The ROMER Absolute Arm is a portable measurement and 3-D scanning solution used to perform computer-aided design-to-part inspections and accurately capture 3-D features and freeform shapes for reverse engineering tasks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Benjamin W. Stratton)
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The love of a mother

Staff Sgt. Alisha Moore, 92nd Comptroller Squadron financial analysis supervisor, welcomes her foster son with open arms April 13, 2015, in Miller Park at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. Moore became a foster parent because of her passion for working with children. She has started a Foster Parent Support Group to share all of the information she has learned in the process of becoming a foster parent. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Taylor Bourgoeus)
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The men who flew the 17,000 flight hour milestone mission

First Lt. Jeff Nixon, co-pilot, Maj. R. Tyler Rennell, aircraft commander, and Tech. Sgt. Andres Ponce, special mission aviator, all from the 36th Rescue Flight, pose with the UH-1N Iroquois helicopter, 69-6648, April 9, 2015, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. This helicopter piloted by this flight crew flew the 17,000 flight hour milestone mission marking this helicopter as having the most flight hours in the Air Force inventory for that airframe. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Nicolo J. Daniello)
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Speaking to the masses

Then Capt. Scotty Smiley, assistant professor of military science at Gonzaga University, Wash., speaks during an event on campus Feb.12, 2013, in Spokane, Wash. (U.S. Army photo/U.S. Army Cadet Command Jacob Bennett)
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Smiling on

Then Capt. Scotty Smiley, the first blind officer in U.S. Army Cadet Command, is serving as an assistant professor of military science at Gonzaga University, Wash. (U.S. Army photo/U.S. Army Cadet Command Jacob Bennett)
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Fueling those who fuel the fight

Airman 1st Class Daniel Langer, 92nd Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels distribution operator, stretches a fuel hose from an R-12 fuel truck in support of a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft refueling operation March 2, 2015, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. The Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants career field has a motto that sums up their role in the Air Force mission – “Without POL, pilots are pedestrians.” (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. David Liapis)
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Fueling those who fuel the fight

Airman 1st Class Daniel Langer, a 92nd Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels distribution operator, exits a fuel hydrant pit before pumping fuel from an R-12 fuel truck into a KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling aircraft assigned to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing March 2, 2015, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. Langer and his fellow fuels distribution operators work around the clock in all weather conditions to ensure Fairchild’s KC-135s are ready to provide tanker support to a variety of missions that includes search & rescue, homeland defense, training and deployed operations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. David Liapis)
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Fueling those who fuel the fight

Airman 1st Class Daniel Langer, a 92nd Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels distribution operator, pulls fuel flow sensing lines from an R-12 Fuel Truck in preparation of a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft refueling operation March 2, 2015, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. Fuels distribution operators work in the Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants flight responsible for filling KC-135 Stratotankers with fuel both for aircraft use and refueling other planes from all branches of the U.S. military as well as some from allied nations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. David Liapis)
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