Photo by Staff Sgt. Abbey Rieves | 17th Training Wing | 02.21.2023
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Christian Bufford, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training instructor, oversees Senior Airman Harrison Zamba, 312th TRS SPINSTRA student, during an electric troubleshooting assignment, at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Feb. 21, 2023. Zamba used a multimeter to test the voltage across an electrical component to learn about voltages and frequencies.......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Abbey Rieves | 17th Training Wing | 02.21.2023
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Christian Bufford, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training instructor, grabs a decommissioned long period seismometer at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Feb. 21, 2023. The seismometer is a training tool that allows students to identify parts, and provides them a visual aid for how the equipment functions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Abbey Rieves)...
Photo by Staff Sgt. Abbey Rieves | 17th Training Wing | 02.21.2023
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Christian Bufford, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training instructor, explains what a decommissioned long period seismometer is, at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Feb. 21, 2023. Bufford has been in the Air Force for eight years, and arrived as an instructor at Goodfellow in June 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Abbey Rieves)...
Photo by Staff Sgt. Abbey Rieves | 17th Training Wing | 02.21.2023
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Christian Bufford, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training instructor, stands near a decommissioned long period seismometer, at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Feb. 21, 2023. A long period seismometer detects surface waves, like the ones felt during an earthquake. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Abbey Rieves)...
Photo by Staff Sgt. Abbey Rieves | 17th Training Wing | 02.21.2023
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Christian Bufford, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training instructor, reminds his students of core competencies, at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Feb. 21, 2023. Bufford mainly instructs geophysical system maintenance but has qualifications for teaching five additional courses: the general maintenance principle course, inorganic chemistry, classical......
Photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves | 17th Training Wing | 08.19.2020
The 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training course’s laser interferometer powers up during a lesson, inside the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 19, 2020. The laser merged two light sources and created an interference pattern, which could be measured and analyzed by SPINSTRA students. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior......
Photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves | 17th Training Wing | 08.19.2020
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. David Hunt, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training course instructor, aligns the laser in the interferometer to demonstrate light technologies for the SPINSTRA students, inside the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 19, 2020. Hunt demonstrated how light photons could act like either a wave or a......
Photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves | 17th Training Wing | 08.19.2020
U.S. Air Force Airman Christian Padilla, 312th Training Squadron Special Instruments Training course student, observes an electrical resonant transformer circuit, more commonly known as a TESLA coil, during a scientific demonstration, in the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 19, 2020. The SPINSTRA course lasted 85 training days and......
