BMT trainee with military lineage on path to fulfill dreams in USSF

Felicia Barringer, Air Force Basic Military Training trainee, poses for a photo with her family of military veterans at the 361st Recruiting Squadron’s recruiting office in Medford, Oregon, before shipping to training in September 2020 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. From left to right are her grandfather, Jim Barringer, Sr., retired Air Force recruiter; mother, Virginia Barringer, Air Force spouse; Felicia Barringer and father, Jim Barringer, Jr., former Air Force Explosive Ordnance Technician with 10 years of service. She has been a space enthusiast most of her life and credits her grandfather for inspiration by buying her a telescope to see the stars, telling her about his career on a military installation that supports space operations and bragging how he knew one day there would be a U.S. Space Force. Barringer is scheduled to graduate BMT on Nov, 12, 2020. (Courtesy photo)