 The holiday season was in full force at the 142nd Wing during a frosty December drill. Throughout the chilly weekend, 142nd Airmen and their families took part in a variety of festive activities organized by the resiliency team. At Santa's Workshop in the Resiliency Center, Airmen enjoyed a selection of free stocking stuffers and tasty holiday treats. It's all part of an effort meant to give back to military families and highlight important resources available to them. Our mission really is Airmen and family readiness, like the idea that you are ready to go to do the mission at any time and there are so many things that contribute to readiness. Connecting people with the things that really improve their life and enrich it and relationships themselves are really what's enriching and makes a community a community. The more family members we have in here, the more it brings the purpose of what we're doing to the actual job. On Sunday of drill, old St. Nick himself made a grand entrance on an F-15, giving kids and military families a chance to meet and take a photo with the Jolly Red Aviator. We have a really tight relationship with Santa, he really cares about our service members and their families and the kids knows what families serve to so we called him up and said could you make a special little trip, he was totally on it. While the holidays may only come once a year, organizers hope that the event works to strengthen the relationship between service members, resource partners and the greater Bayes community so that regardless of the season, Airmen and their families have the support they need. I think strategically speaking having toys and cookies and coffee over here really is a means to try to get family members and the service members over here. We really are trying very hard to entice people to come find us and to know about all the things that are here to support them. Reporting from the 142nd Wing, I'm Staff Sergeant Alexander Frank.