U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Virgilio Ramirez, center, assigned to the 336th Training Squadron, escorts Earlene Syverson, a World War II veteran, as Col. Maureen Smith, right, commander of the 81st Training Group (TRG), and Senior Master Sgt. Anthony Fisher, with the 81st TRG, thank her for her service, at Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport in Gulfport, Miss., April 23, 2013. Syverson and other veterans participated in the fifth annual Mississippi Gulf Coast Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.