347th Rescue Group commander takes final flight

Col. Bryan Creel, 347th Rescue Group commander, prepares for his fini flight June 5, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The fini flight is a long-standing Air Force tradition that occurs when a pilot departs from the base. Creel will move on to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where he will command the 39th Air Base Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hayden Legg)

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347th Rescue Group commander takes final flight

Master Sgt. Jeffrey Waldrup, 41st Rescue Squadron superintendent, loads an M2 machine gun during a fini flight for Col. Bryan Creel, 347th Rescue Group commander, June 5, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The fini flight is a long-standing Air Force tradition that occurs when a pilot departs from the base. Creel will move on to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where he will command the 39th Air Base Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hayden Legg)

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347th Rescue Group commander takes final flight

Master Sgt. Jeffrey Waldrup, 41st Rescue Squadron superintendent, prepares an M2 machine gun for fixed forward fire during a fini flight for Col. Bryan Creel, 347th Rescue Group commander, June 5, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The fini flight is a long-standing Air Force tradition that occurs when a pilot departs from the base. Creel will move on to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where he will command the 39th Air Base Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hayden Legg)

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347th Rescue Group commander takes final flight

Airmen assigned to the 347th Rescue Group drop flares during a fini flight for Col. Bryan Creel, 347th RQG commander, June 5, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The fini flight is a long-standing Air Force tradition that occurs when a pilot departs from the base. Creel will move on to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where he will command the 39th Air Base Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hayden Legg)

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347th Rescue Group commander takes final flight

Master Sgt. Jamie Beard, right, 41st Rescue Squadron first sergeant, watches a special missions aviator fire an M2 machine gun during a fini flight for Col. Bryan Creel, 347th Rescue Group commander, June 5, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The fini flight is a long-standing Air Force tradition that occurs when a pilot departs from the base. Creel will move on to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where he will command the 39th Air Base Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hayden Legg)

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347th Rescue Group commander takes final flight

Col. Bryan Creel, 347th Rescue Group commander, prepares an HH-60G Pave Hawk for helicopter air-to-air refueling during his fini flight June 5, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The fini flight is a long-standing Air Force tradition that occurs when a pilot departs from the base. Creel will move on to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where he will command the 39th Air Base Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hayden Legg)

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347th Rescue Group commander takes final flight

Airmen assigned to the 41st Rescue Squadron hoist pararescuemen with the 38th Rescue Squadron into an HH-60G Pave Hawk during a fini flight for Col. Bryan Creel, 347th Rescue Group commander, June 5, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The fini flight is a long-standing Air Force tradition that occurs when a pilot departs from the base. Creel will move on to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where he will command the 39th Air Base Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hayden Legg)

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347th Rescue Group commander takes final flight

Airmen assigned to the 38th Rescue Squadron climb a ladder during a fini flight for Col. Bryan Creel, 347th Rescue Group commander, June 5, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The fini flight is a long-standing Air Force tradition that occurs when a pilot departs from the base. Creel will move on to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where he will command the 39th Air Base Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hayden Legg)

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347th Rescue Group commander takes final flight

Col. Bryan Creel, 347th Rescue Group commander, presses his feet against a ceiling tile June 5, 2020 at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The final, or fini, flight is a long-standing Air Force tradition that traces its roots back to the Vietnam War when pilots would commemorate their final combat mission. In the rescue community, the fini flight includes painting the pilot's feet "jolly" green to stamp on a ceiling tile. (U.S. Air Force photo by Andrea Jenkins)

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347th Rescue Group commander takes final flight

Published June 12, 2020
By Senior Airman Hayden Legg and Andrea Jenkins
23d Wing Public Affairs

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. --