Senior Airman Henry Bones Pilligua participates in a game of tug of war with students from the American School of Doha in Qatar, during Sports Day, Feb. 2, 2014. Established in 2011, the Qatar National Sports Day prompted a government mandate that all schools develop a sports day the week prior to the national holiday to create awareness about sports and its health benefits in an effort to meet the challenges of a rapidly increasing youthful population. This year Qatar National Sports Day takes place Feb. 11. Bones Pilligua is assigned to the 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, and a Yonkers, N.Y., native deployed from Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.