Mental Warfare

Student members of the Cornell University Mars Rover Team, Matthew Filipek and Thomas Ilyevsky, talk with the team's faculty advisor, Capt. Kevin O'Brien, as they work on the rover the team will enter in the University Mars Rover Challenge,as Corinne Lippe and Jane Du, right, and Varun Belur, left, look on in the team's lab space at Phillips Hall on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, Apr. 16, 2016. O'Brien, Operations Flight Commander of AFROTC Detachment 520 at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where he supervises the cadet wing in the conduct of Leadership Laboratory (LLAB) activities, teaches Aerospace Studies and Leadership courses and manages programs to identify, attract, and retain cadets for the AFROTC program, while working on his Ph.D. in Engineering, serves as the team's faculty advisor with hopes that such a presence will draw science and technology students to a career in research with the U.S. Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)