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Grissom Airmen earn CCAF degrees

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  • By Staff Sgt. Jami K. Lancette
  • 434th ARW Public Affairs
Not only are many of the Air Force’s enlisted members able to call themselves graduates of basic military training, they can also call themselves college graduates.

This is now true for 28 Airmen assigned to the 434th Air Refueling Wing as they recently earned their Community College of the Air Force degrees in their selected career fields.

Below are the names of those earning their associates in applied science degrees in the following area of study.

Aircraft structural maintenance technology:
Staff Sgt. Christopher Robinson, 434th Maintenance Squadron

Aircrew safety systems technology:
Senior Airman Cory O’Connor, 434th Operations Support Squadron

Aviation maintenance technology:
Master Sgt. Michael Graham, 434th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron
Tech Sgt. Phillip Timoschuk, 434th AMXS
Staff Sgt. Ann Mittelsteadt, 434th AMXS
Staff Sgt. Kayla Dickson, 434th AMXS
Staff Sgt. Nicholas McClure, 434th AMXS
Senior Airman Adrienne Bryant, 434th AMXS

Aviation operations:
Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Navarre, 434th Operations Support Squadron

Avionic Systems Technology:
Master Sgt. Spencer Montague, 434th AMXS
Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Good, 434th AMXS
Staff Sgt. Dimitar Mihaylov, 434th AMXS

Criminal Justice:
Staff Sgt. Aaron Phelps, 434th Security Forces Squadron
Staff Sgt. Robert O’Brien, 434th SFS

Education and training management:
Staff Sgt. Shirley Turner, 434th Aerospace medicine squadron

Financial management:
Master Sgt. Chad Lawrence, 434th Air Refueling Wing

Health care management:
Master Sgt. Robert Benefiel, 434th AMDS
Tech. Sgt. Alicia Villarruel, 434th MXS

Human resource management:
Master Sgt. Alicia Santana, 434th SFS
Master Sgt. Christa Leach, 434th Force Support Squadron

Information management:
Staff Sgt. Lucille Reyna, 434th Operations Group

Logisitics:
Chief Master Sgt. Tamara Jones, 434th Logistics Readiness Squadron
Master Sgt. Kimberly Davis
Staff Sgt. Andrew Davenport, 434th LRS

Maintenance production management:
Tech. Sgt. Cathleen Castleberry, 434th Maintenance Group

Medical laboratory technology:
Master Sgt. Jodie May, 434th AMDS

Nondestructive testing technology:
Master Sgt. Brandi Bass, 434th MXS

Transportation:
Staff Sgt. Kelsey McFadden, 49th Aerial Port Flight

Grissom has awarded over 450 CCAF associate degrees in the past 10 years.

The 434th ARW is the largest KC-135R Stratotanker unit in the Air Force Reserve Command. Men and women from the Hoosier Wing routinely deploy around the world in support of the Air Force mission.

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Public Affairs Staff

Material contained on the Official Grissom Air Reserve Base Internet Web Site is written and produced by members of the 434th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs Office. The award-winning staff includes:

Douglas Hays
Chief, public affairs

Maj. Elias Zani
Public affairs officer

Ben Mota
Public affairs operations chief

Master Sgt. Rachel Barton
Staff writer

Tech. Sgt. Alexa Culbert
Staff writer

Senior Airman Elise Faurote
Staff writer