John Carr (standing behind podium), deputy director of the Agile Combat Support Directorate's Simulators Division, gives remarks during his retirement ceremony on at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Oct. 29, 2021. For nearly five decades Carr served the Air Force in various capacities. He is a class of '73 United States Air Force Academy graduate,. He went on to serve in uniform, then as a government contractor and finally as a civil servant. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jim Varhegyi)