Air Force conducts mass enlistment with rocket backdrop

Forty Air Force recruits got their first glimpse at active duty Feb. 4 when they were sworn into the Delayed Entry Program at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

45th Space Wing Commander Brig. Gen. Edward L. Bolton Jr. led the oath in front of a Delta IV rocket being readied for launch from Pad 37.

“Welcome to the Air Force,” General Bolton said after the oath was completed. A former enlisted Airmen himself, he told the recruits how he had also been in the DEP more than 20 years ago.
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