7 MXG announces nose-art winner Published Sept. 12, 2011 By Senior Airman Robert Hicks 7th Bomb Wing Public Affairs DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- "Ten years ago to the date I was heading back to base after spending some time with the in-laws when I heard the news on the radio," said Staff Sgt. Mydon Guilbe, 7th Civil Engineer Squadron. "I didn't think much of it. I thought it was an accident until I got to base (Malmstrom AFB, Mont.) and saw we were in force protection delta. That's when I realized how bad the situation was. Exactly a year from the event I went on my first deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom." Guilbe recently put his feelings and a pen to paper to create the winning nose art that will be painted on the nose of a B-1 Bomber in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "I wanted something simple that would relate directly to the attacks," Guilbe said. "I didn't want the design to show anything about the war. So, I told myself no bald eagle, no let's roll, no weapons, etc. I wanted to simply create something to remind people to remember what was lost." Master Sgt. Jason Yearicks and Master Sgt. Gerrick Hoffman, 7th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron worked together to choose the winning nose art. Yearicks explained that Guilbe's nose art was chosen because it reflected and memorialized everything that happened in the past 10 years.