February BRE
HANSCOM AFB, Mass. -- Capt. Chris Ruscio, 66th Mission Support Squadron, briefs Hanscom servicemembers before they process base personnel through the Personnel Deployment Function line during the Base Readiness Exercise Feb. 27. Eighty-six personnel were tasked for the BRE, 64 of which were physically processed through the PDF line. The BRE was an Initial Response Exercise evaluating the base’s ability to respond to a short-notice Joint Chiefs of Staff contingency deployment scenario. This was the first Initial Response Exercise since the Operational Readiness Inspection in June 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo by Mark Wyatt.)