Air Guard forecasting for the Joint Force

Members of the Texas Air National Guard's 209th Weather Flight, based at Camp Mabry, in Austin, Texas, conduct training at Camp Swift, near Bastrop, March 3, 2013. The training is part of an annual requirement. Pictured here is a wind vane on a tactical meteorological observing system. (National Guard photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Phil Fountain / Released)

Air Guard forecasting for the Joint Force

1st Lt. Christopher L. Drye, a member of the Texas Air National Guard's 209th Weather Flight, based at Camp Mabry, in Austin, Texas, uses a pocket weather tracker during training at Camp Swift, near Bastrop, March 3, 2013. The training is part of an annual requirement. (National Guard photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Phil Fountain / Released)

Air Guard forecasting for the Joint Force

Tech. Sgt. Omar Lopez of San Angelo, Texas, a member of the Texas Air National Guard's 209th Weather Flight, based at Camp Mabry, in Austin, Texas, participates in weather training at Camp Swift, near Bastrop, March 2, 2013. The training is part of an annual requirement. (National Guard photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Phil Fountain / Released)

Air Guard forecasting for the Joint Force

Members of the Texas Air National Guard's 209th Weather Flight, based at Camp Mabry, in Austin, Texas, conduct training at Camp Swift, near Bastrop, March 2, 2013. The training is part of an annual requirement. (National Guard photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Phil Fountain / Released)

Texas Red Flag

Staff Sgts. Joshua Cash (left) and Joseph Dawson (right), members of the 149th Communications Flight, a subcomponent of the Texas Air National Guard's 149th Fighter Wing, install a TRACSTAR satellite uplink device, which provided mobile communications for the Texas Red Flag exercise at Yankee Range, in McMullen County, on June 1, 2012. (Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Mike Arellano / Released)

Texas Red Flag

Members of the Texas Air National Guard's 147th Air Support Operations Squadron operate alongside members of the air force of the Czech Republic, which is paired with Texas through the National Guard's State Partnership Program, at Yankee Range, the northern of two ranges that comprise the McMullen Target Complex, which is part of Naval Air Station Kingsville, and is managed by Detachment 1, a subcomponent of the Texas Air National Guard's 149th Fighter Wing at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, on May 30, 2012. (Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Mike Arellano / Released)