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Staff Sgt. Brandon Dendy, 94th Security Forces Squadron, response force leader, Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia, plugs his right nostril after Redman qualifications fights as Staff Sgt. Sherenda Fausnaugh, 421st Combat Training Squadron, independent party duty and medical technician, provides medical instruction during the Phoenix Raven Qualification Course at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The intensive three-week, 12-hour-a-day course covers such subjects as cross-cultural awareness, legal considerations, embassy operations, airfield survey techniques, explosive ordnance awareness, aircraft searches, and unarmed self-defense techniques. Students are exposed to more than 70 use-of-force scenarios where stress is simulated using role players. Training includes instruction and realistic practical exercises in antiterrorism/force protection, weapon system security, verbal judo, combatives, tactical baton employment and advanced firearms proficiency. (U.S. Air Force photo by/Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.)