Pilot Maj. Wyck Furcron, with the 121st Fighter Squadron, preforms an operational check of the F-16 Fighter Falcon braking system on March 14. The 113th Wing’s Aerospace Control Alert Detachment reached a milestone of responding to 5,000 alert events on March 21, 2015. The alert unit was created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. (Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur)