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Brig. Gen. Andy Busch, commander of the 402nd Maintenance Wing, places the Air
Force Outstanding Unit Award on the squadron flag as 653 rd Combat Logistics Support
Squadron commander Maj. Paul Kanning looks on at Friday’s commander’s call cer
emony.
Squadron presented fourth
Outstanding Unit Award hi a row
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
On Friday, the men and
women of the 653rd Combat
Logistics Support Squadron
were presented the unit’s
fourth consecutive Air Force
Outstanding Unit Award.
“It’s great recognition for
outstanding work,“ said Col.
Scott Miller commander
of the 402nd Maintenance
Group.
The squadron distin
guished itself by exception
ally meritorious service
from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2005.
“ That’s what I see, with the
number of field depot teams
deployed, 113, and the 21
rapid area distribution
support teams around the
globe,” said Brig. Gen. Andy
Busch, commander of the
402nd Maintenance Wing, “I
get calls, I get positive feed
back from Southwest Asia,”
said Busch.
That work alone compiled
62,000 man-hours and saved
worldwide customers sl6
million in labor costs.
The squadron also
deployed the first-ever joint
Air Force and Army combat
convoy movement control
team redeploying more than
114,000 personnel on 2,560
Air Mobility Command mis
sions, transporting 2,528
pallets weighing more than
10 million pounds.
“Our mission is supplying
the warfighters,” said 653rd
Combat Logistics Support
Squadron commander Maj.
Paul Kanning.
“It’s one no one else can
do.”
Kanning also thanked
“everyone on base. It’s an
award for our squadron but
it can’t be done alone.”
Busch also praised the
members of the 653rd for
“the capability you provide
us here at Warner Robins Air
Logistics Command under
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familiar with Head, from
prior dealings," Williams
said.
“His name had come up
in several investigations.”
Head also has a large tat
too on his right arm, which
the deputies recognized.
Worley pled guilty earlier
this year to forgery. He was
sentenced to 10 years, eight
to serve, Williams said.
Sgt. Ronnie Harlowe and
Sgt. Joe Sendek took out
the warrants on Worley
based on information from
a confidential source that
he was hiding at the home
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some of the most significant
challenges in C-130 produc
tion.”
Kanning said the squadron
services not only the C-130s,
but also the F-15s, C-ss, C
-17s and some helicopters
at WR-ALC. The squadron
personnel provided superi
or mechanical and logisti
cal expertise here totaling
56,660 man-hours, saving
the Center $13.1 million in
additional labor costs.
The 653rd was also hon
ored for the work of a 20-
person team deployed to
the New Castle, Delaware
Air National Guard base to
repair four tornado-dam
aged C-130s.
Kanning said only one
plane had to be decommis
sioned because of the exten
sive damage.
The team expended 16,000
man-hours there, saved $2.8
million in replacement parts,
and returned 365 parts worth
about $8 million to supply to
the praise of Air Mobility
Command and Delaware
Gov. Ruth Ann Miller.
At Friday’s commander’s
call, Busch also presented
an outstanding achievement
award, the second oak leaf
cluster, to Tech. Sgt. Ronald
E. Bolden for rendering first
on Chisom Court, Williams
said. He had several charg
es for forged checks.
Williams said depu
ties waited outside about
15 minutes to get Worley
to come to the door and
cleared the house after
hearing all the noise inside
and finding a handgun
outside and bullets in the
kitchen.
“We knew there had to be
another gun in the house,”
Williams said.
There were several peo
ple in the house along with
Worley and Head, Williams
said. Brady Traweek was
also arrested at the time
for open drug warrants.
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Busch presents
the Outstanding
Achievement
Award to Tech. Sgt.
Ronald E. Bolden,
an aircraft hydrau
lics systems crafts
man with the 653 rd
Combat Logistics
Support Squadron,
402nd Maintenance
Group, 402nd
Maintenance Wing.
Journal/Ray Lightner
aid and saving the life of a
civilian base housing inspec
tor, Marvin Taylor.
Bolden had met with
Taylor for his pre-inspec
tion before moving in when
Taylor became ill, fell and
hit his head on the stove.
Bolden helped him to his
feet at which time Taylor
had a seizure and Bolden
attempted to catch Taylor
re-injuring the arm Bolden
had just had surgery on.
After calling 911, Bolden
tried to revive Taylor, per
forming first responder pro
cedures and monitoring him
until paramedics arrived.
Bolden’s “decisive and self
less actions filled a crucial
treatment time line, saving
Taylor’s life,” according to
the citation.
Bolden said he turned
Taylor on his side as he was
seizing and throwing up. He
said he visited Taylor during
the 21 days of intensive care
and found out Taylor had
become sick from a recent
surgery of his own.
Bolden is an aircraft
hydraulics systems crafts
man with the 653rd Combat
Logistics Support Squadron,
402nd Maintenance Group,
402nd Maintenance Wing at
Robins Air Force Base.
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confinement if it is believed
upon reasonable grounds
that:
• An offense triable by a
court-martial has been com
mitted;
• The servicemember com
mitted it; and
• Confinement is neces
sary because it is foresee
able that the prisoner will
not appear at trial, pretrial
hearing, or investigation, or
the prisoner will engage in
serious criminal misconduct;
and
• Less severe forms of
restraint are inadequate.
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Their second album, “Home
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of Federal Programs. “There
needs to be a place and time
to do homework.”
Dr. Ruth O’Dell, Assistant
Superintendent for Student
Services, agrees.
“We need more parents
involved in homework com
pletion,” she said. Pointing
out while some working
parents have trouble fit
ting in involvement with
their children’s school,
“Homework completion is
where a parent can really
connect.”
Mike Mattingly, Assistant
Superintendent for
Teaching and Learning,
joined in.
“We find that many par
ents haven’t established a
routine with their children, ”
he said. “The kids have TV
DVDs and Playstations in
their rooms. The parents
don’t know whether they’re
doing their homework or
not.”
Starting at middle school,
parents can check on their
children’s homework and
progress in school through
Smart Web, an online sys
tem designed for a close
connection between teach
ers and parents about stu
dent performance and prog
ress. (It’s confidential, too.
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ents should be aware that
homework may begin as
early as kindergarten.
Mattingly’s biggest con
cern, however, is atten
dance.
“There are 175 school
days,” he said, “and every
one of them is important.”
While some students may
be stacking up the unex
cused absences because
their parents aren’t mak
ing them get up and go to
school, or aren’t aware of
their absences, Mattingly
said that many times par
ents decide to take family
trips during the school year,
and argue that the trip itself
will be educational.
What all three agreed
on is that a child’s success
in school depends on the
adults in that child’s life
working together.
“We need consistency
between the home and the
school,” Dawsey said, add
ing a little wistfully, “Once
it was between the home,
the school and the church.”
Once children are in their
desks with their books open,
teamwork is still important
O’Dell, pointed out that
the basic emphasis of pub
lic education has shifted
through the nation’s his
tory.
At one time she explained,
school was only open to a
privileged few, but then it
was established that all chil
dren would have an oppor-
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then the emphasis was on
equality of opportunity.
Now, with the stan
dards set by the federal
government’s “No Child
Left Behind” Act, public
schools have taken another
big step.
“Everybody can come to
school and everybody has
to meet the standard,” she
said, “We are responsible
not just for teaching, but
for seeing that children
learn.”
O’Dell called this both “a
challenge” and “a wonder
ful and great thing.”
Tomorrow, Part 2
How the school population
is becoming more diverse,
how educators are making
sure no child is left behind
because of poverty, disabil
ity or not speaking English
at home.
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