The Edwards AFB Disability Employment Awareness Month Committee invited wounded warriors and students out to Piute Ponds for a morning of birding. Covering up to 600 acres on the base's southwest corner, the freshwater marsh is comprised of channels, dikes and evaporation ponds with water supplied from a Los Angeles County wastewater treatment plant.The marsh attracts migratory birds because of its location along the Great Basin corridor of the Pacific Flyway - one of four major bird migration routes across the United States. The stop at the ponds is one of several events Edwards is putting on for DEAM. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jet Fabara)
Piute Ponds on Edwards AFB. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jet Fabara)
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(U.S. Air Force photo by Jet Fabara)
James Judkins (seated), 412th Civil Engineer Group director, takes on the wheelchair challenge Oct. 6. The challenge is to give leaders a better perspective of people with disabilities. A helmet was provided as Judkins is not accustomed to using a wheelchair. To the left is Darcy Painter, 412th Communications Squadron, Disability Employment Awareness Month Committee member; to the right is Lt. Col. Christopher Budde, 412th CS commander. Behind is Senior Airman Gregory Smith, 412th Security Forces Squadron, DEAM Committee member. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rebecca Amber)
(U.S. Air Force photo by Rebecca Amber)