Team Dyess wins big at Global Strike Challenge

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas—Dyess Airmen bring home five trophies Nov. 18 after attending a two-day Global Strike Challenge award ceremony at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. Global Strike Challenge is the world’s premier bomber, intercontinental ballistic missile and security forces competition with units from Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Reserve Command and the Air National Guard. Team Dyess earned the Mithcell Trophy for Best Bomb, only 9 feet away from the target; Eaker Trophy for Best B-1 Operations; Best Bomb Munitions Maintenance Team Trophy; Ellis Giant Sword Trophy for Best Bomb Wing Maintenance; and the LeMay Trophy for Best Bomb Squadron, the 7th Operations Support Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Brittney Frees)

Team Dyess wins big at Global Strike Challenge

Published Nov. 19, 2010
By Airman 1st Class Brittney Frees
7th Bomb Wing Public Affairs

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Dyess Airmen bring home five trophies Nov. 18 after attending a two-day Global Strike Challenge award ceremony at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. Global Strike Challenge is the world's premier bomber, intercontinental ballistic missile and security forces competition with units from Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Reserve Command and the Air National Guard. Team Dyess earned the Mithcell Trophy for Best Bomb, only 9 feet away from the target; Eaker Trophy for Best B-1 Operations; Best Bomb Munitions Maintenance Team Trophy; Ellis Giant Sword Trophy for Best Bomb Wing Maintenance; and the LeMay Trophy for Best Bomb Squadron, the 7th Operations Support Squadron.