Maj. Audric Bills is the 445th Airlift Wing Equal Opportunity Office director.

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U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. David Hunt, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training course instructor, answers questions from SPINSTRA students, while wearing a mask, inside the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2020. The SPINSTRA students followed COVID-19 safety precautions throughout their Air Force training, all-the-while learning mathematics, electronic principles, applied sciences, computer and network fundamentals, phenomenology, and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance fundamentals. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves)

Mission-focused SPINSTRA vigilant through pandemic
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. David Hunt, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training course instructor, discusses the SPINSTRA’s Nova Lab, short for Innovation Laboratory, containing four 3D printers as well as 3D modeling software for students to hone-in technical skills and gain mentorship, inside the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2020. Hunter and additional SPINSTRA instructors volunteered their time in the Nova Lab for students after classroom hours and during the weekends, and offered additional mentorship and educational opportunities for the students, while COVID-19 induced travel restrictions were active during the pandemic. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves)

Mission-focused SPINSTRA vigilant through pandemic
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Kevin Page, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training course student, learns about sound wave mechanics by using a coil-like prop for hands-on educational advances, inside the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2020. Props were used in the SPINSTRA learning environment to demonstrate larger-than-life concepts, which aided the students who learned visually. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves)

Mission-focused SPINSTRA vigilant through pandemic
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Hunter Ramsey, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training course student, wears personal protective equipment during the plasma chamber’s vacuum demonstration, inside the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2020. The SPINSTRA course was 85 training days and taught electronic principles, applied sciences, computer and network fundamentals, phenomenology, and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance fundamentals. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves)

Mission-focused SPINSTRA vigilant through pandemic
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. David Hunt, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training course instructor, fires up the plasma chamber, a visual teaching aid, for the SPINSTA students at the Louis F Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2020. The plasma chamber was designed to demonstrate a variety of scientific, electronic and safety principles in a 10:1 student to instructor classroom ratio. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves)

Mission-focused SPINSTRA vigilant through pandemic
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. David Hunt, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training course instructor, explains different scientific concepts with a student-built plasma chamber, at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2020. Hunter demonstrated to the SPINSTRA students how volumetric pressure may affect electrons’ flow. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves)

Mission-focused SPINSTRA vigilant through pandemic
U.S. Air Force Airman from the 312th Training Squadron special instruments training course are learning to repair and reinstall a Geotech KS54000 Broadband Seismometer on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, July 31, 2020. The Airman will soon be responsible for maintaining similar equipment across the globe in support of the United States Atomic Energy Detection System (USAEDS). (Courtesy photo)

Mission-focused SPINSTRA vigilant through pandemic
U.S. Air Force Col. Angelina Maguinness, 17th Training Group commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Charmane Tatum, 17th TRG superintendent, stand with the Student of the Month winners outside of Brandenburg Hall at Goodfellow, Texas, Aug. 7, 2020. The Student and Rope of the Month awards are given to those students who have distinguished themselves in courses and by leading others. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Seraiah Wolf)

Congratulations to the Students of the Month for July
U.S. Air Force Airmen prepare to load humanitarian aid supplies onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Aug. 6, 2020, bound for Beirut, Lebanon. U.S. Central Command is coordinating with the Lebanese Armed Forces and U.S. Embassy-Beirut to transport critical supplies as quickly as possible to support the needs of the Lebanese people. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Heather Fejerang)

Immediate Relief Aid to Lebanon
U.S. Air Force Airmen load humanitarian aid supplies onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Aug. 6, 2020, bound for Beirut, Lebanon. U.S. Central Command is coordinating with the Lebanese Armed Forces and U.S. Embassy-Beirut to transport critical supplies as quickly as possible to support the needs of the Lebanese people. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Justin Parsons)

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U.S. Air Force Airmen load humanitarian aid supplies a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Aug. 6, 2020, bound for Beirut, Lebanon. U.S. Central Command is coordinating with the Lebanese Armed Forces and U.S. Embassy-Beirut to transport critical supplies as quickly as possible to support the needs of the Lebanese people. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Heather Fejerang)

USCENTCOM support to Lebanon
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Elizabeth Aguilar, 17th Training Wing Equal Opportunity superintendent, discusses the barriers that minorities face and how they can remove them on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, August 5, 2020. The team leaders planned to have their first meeting with the unit representatives to discuss what issues each squadron was facing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ethan Sherwood)

Goodfellow launches Diversity and Inclusion Team
The Goodfellow Diversity and Inclusion Team goes over programs and experiences relevant to their goals on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, August 5, 2020. The team focused on problems they had in the past to predict future cases and possible solutions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ethan Sherwood)

Goodfellow launches Diversity and Inclusion Team
17th Training Wing Violence Prevention Integrator, Donna Casey, reads over Air Force Instruction 36-7001, which provides guidance on her recent founding of a Diversity and Inclusion Team on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, August 5, 2020. Casey is one of four leaders who created a team to identify and remove barriers for minorities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ethan Sherwood)

Goodfellow launches Diversity and Inclusion Team
U.S. Air Force Capt. Melissa Seibert, 17th Medical Group general dentist, wears personal protective equipment to avoid undetected COVID-19 exposure, while performing dental duties, at the Ross Clinic’s dental facility, on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2020. In addition to Seibert’s PPE, the Ross Clinic enforced a single-point entry control, COVID-19 questionnaire screenings and protective reception desk and patient exam room barriers to remain undeterred through the pandemic. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves)

Dental undeterred through COVID-19
U.S. Air Force Capt. Thomas Montgomery, 17th Medical Group general dentist, discusses an oral care plan with a patient at the Ross Clinic’s dental facility, on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2020. The room was sanitized before and after the patient was seen by the provider. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves) Note: this photo has been edited to blur a medical badge.

Dental undeterred through COVID-19
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Sydney Raqueno, 17th Operations Medical Readiness Squadron, dental logistics NCO in charge, pulls down a plastic doorway barrier at the Ross Clinic’s dental facility, on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2020. Raqueno led a team of Airmen to install the COVID-19 prevention upgrade barriers and completed the task in one duty day. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves)

Dental undeterred through COVID-19
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Sydney Raqueno, 17th Operations Medical Readiness Squadron, dental logistics NCO in charge, stands in a dental exam room and explains how the dental clinic evolves through the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Ross Clinic’s dental facility, on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2020. Raqueno wore a mask and maintained a social distance throughout the clinic. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves) Note: this photo has been edited to blur a medical badge.

Dental undeterred through COVID-19
U.S. Air Force Capt. Thomas Montgomery, 17th Medical Group general dentist, prepares to test the vitality of the patient’s teeth from inside a sealed barrier at the Ross Clinic’s dental facility, on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2020. The doorway barriers were installed to prevent contaminants from leaving the room during aerosol generating procedures. (U.S. Air Force by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves)

Dental undeterred through COVID-19
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U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Michael McCourt, 312th Training Squadron commander, poses with Tech. Sgt. Alexander Spears, 312th TRS fire instructor, who won the Department of Defense Fire Academy U.S. Air Force Instructor of the Year Award at the Louis F. Garland DoD Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, June 5, 2020. All DoD firefighters are trained in a joint service environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ethan Sherwood)

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