Thracian Summer 2021: When night falls 435 AGOW rises to occasion
A U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Joseph Pace, 435th Security Forces Squadron contingency response team member scans for potential threats on top of a humvee during night operations at Thracian Summer 2021 at Cheshnegirovo Air Base, Bulgaria, Aug. 27, 2021. Defenders from the 435th Security Forces Squadron provide critical air base security for the 435th Contingency Response Group. The group is U.S. Air Forces in Europe's only expeditionary air base opening force. They provide a scalable, cross-functional, rapidly deployable force designed to assess and open air bases, and perform initial airfield operations enabling rapid standup of combat operations anywhere in the U.S. European Command area of responsibility. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Andrew J. Alvarado)