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Air Force Achievement Medal (with two oak leaf clusters), Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Air Force Good Conduct Medal (with one oak leaf cluster), National Defense Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal (with one campaign star), Air Force Overseas Short-Tour Ribbon, Air Force Overseas Long-Tour Ribbon, Air Force Longevity Award, Air Force Training Ribbon.




1990-1990: 3707th Basic Military Training Squadron, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas :: 1990-1991: Goodfellow Technical Training Center, Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas :: 1991-1991: 497th Reconnaissance Technical Group, Lindsey Air Station (Schierstein Kaserne), Wiesbaden, Germany :: 1991-1993: 496th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron/Joint Analysis Center, Royal Air Force Alconbury (RAF Molesworth), Cambridgeshire, England :: 1993-1995: 36th Intelligence Squadron, 480th Intelligence Group, Langley Air Force Base, Hampton, Virginia :: 1995-1996: 607th Air Intelligence Squadron, Osan Air Base, Songtan-Si (Pyeongtaek), South Korea :: 1996-1997: United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM, Offutt Air Force Base, Bellevue, Nebraska




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Date/Time: 2009-07-27 12:43 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] quicksilvermad.livejournal.com
How funny that the first and last of the patches are in my dad's collection. And he designed another one for one of his stations, but some other jerk took the credit for it. I'll find out which one it was and get back to you.

Strategic Command... Ah, I remember walking on that logo on a rubber mat to get into the Vandenberg building where my dad's office was. One of his friends always had those wrapped peppermint candies or butterscotch for me and my sister when we came to visit.

Good times!
Date/Time: 2009-07-27 13:11 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] ehowton.livejournal.com
When I first got in, I thought USAFE was the entire world. And while I didn't wear the patch, once I got there, PACAF was a close second. How neat that he designed a patch! I have a Saudi campaign patch on my jacket that one of the Brits in the small unit I was attached to designed.

STRATCOM was one of the reasons I left the Air Force. All my assignments had been tactical to that point, and I found I was good at it. The Mission Comes First and all that. STRATCOM had a different world view, and I found I couldn't easily translate into it. But because of that experience, I gained an understanding about where my strengths lie and how to better utilize them.
Date/Time: 2009-07-27 15:16 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] schpydurx.livejournal.com
I used your experience with each of these to explain the difference between tactical and strategic amongst our team this weekend, illustrating how both is needed to fight on the political front. I find I've been quoting you and your dad a lot lately.
Date/Time: 2009-07-27 15:25 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] ehowton.livejournal.com
To ensure that a team is most effective, one must play to their individual strengths. Unfortunately, the needs of the Air Force sometimes overrules that. We were, after all, all Airmen; a tool of might to fulfill objectives.
Date/Time: 2009-07-27 15:12 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] schpydurx.livejournal.com
It's hard to believe that's you in the picture. You without facial hair just isn't right.

Thank you for your service to our country.
Date/Time: 2009-07-27 15:23 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] ehowton.livejournal.com
I did sport a mustache the entire time I was in, but Service Photo's are taken during Basic Training and no facial hair is allowed during that time.
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 00:33 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] kat-rowe.livejournal.com
Very cool.

*realizes she hasn't smushed a Veteran today and hugs you tight* Thanks for fighting the good fight for a bunch of people you're never even met. You rock :)
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 00:53 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] ehowton.livejournal.com
Thanks. It was great fun while it lasted.
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 01:01 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] kat-rowe.livejournal.com
:) you rock *hugs you again*
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 06:52 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] celtmanx.livejournal.com
Watch it now!!! I've got debs. He's my personal veteran.
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 06:54 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] kat-rowe.livejournal.com
*backs away slowly*

Sorry, dude. Didn't know he was spoken for.

*wanders off in search of another veteran to smush, fails, and hugs herself instead*
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 06:58 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] celtmanx.livejournal.com
Yeah, he's been mine since middle school. Even when I wanted to kill him for dropping the Penthouse magazines at the vice principals feet. I had my first heart attack at 14.
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 07:01 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] kat-rowe.livejournal.com
Well, if he's been giving you arryhtmias since you were 14, that definitely makes him yours ;p

*hugs you instead*
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 07:02 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] celtmanx.livejournal.com
And thank you for serving our country as well.
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 07:04 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] kat-rowe.livejournal.com
Only wish I could have done it longer. Pesky incontestible medical discharges *pouts*
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 07:06 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] celtmanx.livejournal.com
I can relate, I was misdiagnosed as 4F.
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 15:55 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] kat-rowe.livejournal.com
That sucks, but not as bad as a couple men and women I went through Basic with who damned well should have been 4Fed and ended up washing out during Basic instead. Terrible disappointment for them :(
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 15:57 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] ehowton.livejournal.com
You took the oath. And that says volumes.
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 16:00 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] kat-rowe.livejournal.com
the phrase that springs to mind is "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"

damned mortal coil! *shakes fist at the skies*
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 06:56 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] celtmanx.livejournal.com
Gosh you look so young in that picture. Were we really ever that young?

Thank you for serving our country.

Date/Time: 2009-07-28 15:59 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] ehowton.livejournal.com
Thank you, but this post was created as a link to be be pasted when questions of where I was stationed and duration arose. Also because my mom sometimes forgets.
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 20:00 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] celtmanx.livejournal.com
"Thank you for serving our country."

Well I've never actually said it and I just thought I would take the opportunity.
Date/Time: 2009-07-28 20:05 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] ehowton.livejournal.com
Thank you for standing by my side for seven years while I did so.
Date/Time: 2009-07-30 14:57 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] thesweetestnote.livejournal.com
You Bad Ass.
Date/Time: 2009-07-30 15:07 (UTC)Posted by: [identity profile] ehowton.livejournal.com
heh

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