114 earn CCAF degrees

Published Dec. 6, 2012
By Senior Airman Heather Heiney
81st Training Wing Public Affairs

KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. -- The Community College of the Air Force presented 114 Keesler members with 131 associates degrees Dec. 5 at the Bay Breeze Event Center.

Four graduates received awards during the ceremony including three Air Force Association Pitsenbarger Awards, three Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University excellence awards, three University of Southern Mississippi excellence awards, three William Carey University excellence awards and a Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Sal D'Aquilla Scholarship.

Staff Sgts. Gayle Feist, 335th Training Squadron, and Rachel Thompson, 338th TRS, and Senior Airman Mark Richardson, 81st Medical Support Squadron, each won awards from AFA, ERAU, USM and WCU.

Staff Sgt. Gregory Buford, 338th TRS, received an award from MGCCC.

Graduates are:

2nd Air Force - Master Sgt. Bruce Adams and Tech. Sgts. Richard Moss and Christina Re.

81st Aerospace Medicine Squadron - Staff Sgts. Justina Fitzpatrick and Leonard Patterson.

81st Comptroller Squadron - Master Sgt. Jeffrey Moody.

81st Contracting Squadron - Senior Airman Amanda Nesbitt.

81st Dental Squadron - Staff Sgt. Rene Roddy.

81st Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron - Master Sgt. Leslie Finley; Tech. Sgt. Michele Chapman; Staff Sgts. Andrea Klein, Pisit Moommala and Allen Savedra; and Senior Airmen Nathan Butcher, Robert Chambers, Darrell Edwards, Robert Tipton and Charlene Vance.

81st Force Support Squadron - Tech. Sgt. Marcus Hogsten and Staff Sgt. Amanda Wyatt.

81st Infrastructure Division - Staff Sgt. Chase Headrick.

81st Inpatient Operations Squadron - Tech. Sgt. Patricia Boydston.

81st Logistics Readiness Squadron - Master Sgt. Christopher Yarbrough and Tech. Sgt. Darrin Srader.

81st Medical Group - Master Sgt. Gene McCants.

81st Medical Operations Squadron - Staff Sgts. Teresa Adens and Dominique Woodfork; Senior Airman Kayciann Gordon and Airman 1st Class Scarlett Kayla.

81st MDSS - Staff Sgt. Peter Stephen Plete and Senior Airmen Jacob Duran and Mark Richardson.

81st Surgical Operations Squadron - Tech. Sgt. Jay Villanueva; Staff Sgts. Tyreema Anderson, Lionel Jordan and Tina Perine; Senior Airmen Manuel Botero, Stephanie Garcia and Crystal Smith; and Airman 1st Class Stephanie Glover.

81st Training Group - Tech. Sgt. Shaun Wilke.

81st Training Support Squadron - Master Sgts. David Donnerstag, Gary Landenberger and Orlando Thomas and Senior Airman Francis Rhodd.

81st Training Wing - Staff Sgts. Tawny Crutcher and Kimberly Moore and Senior Airman Wyleeshia Meekins.

85th Engineering Installation Squadron - Staff Sgts. Theodore Nichols and Bobby Palmer.

96th Aerial Port Squadron - Master Sgt. Jonathan Vansandt and Tech Sgts. Terry Rutledge, Earl Thomas and Matthew Welch.

333rd TRS - Marine Master Gunnery Sgt. Ryan Wallace, Master Sgt. Wayne Bullock, Tech. Sgt. Guillermo Muniz and Staff Sgts. Douglas Batchelde, Jacob Conrads and Eric Hafner.

334th TRS - Master Sgt. Bradley Reilly and Staff Sgts. Nathaniel Edwards, Lester Lane and Jennifer Riter.

335th TRS - Master Sgt. John Platt, Marine Staff Sgt. John Gregson, Tech. Sgt. Chad Nabinger, Marine Sgt. Michael Haas and Staff Sgts. Brandy Cotton, Gayle Feist and Joshua Rowles.

336th TRS - Master Sgts. Ryan Bienvenu, Yancy Culver and Charity Winkler; Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Eric Walker; Tech. Sgts. Andrew Borden, Jeffie Bowen, Ervin McKinzie and Matthew Wane; and Staff Sgts. Reginald Bass, Ryan Clements, Marshall Dixon, Joshua Fuqua, Quan Holmes, Edward Lotz, Andrew Tong and Angel White.

338th TRS - Master Sgt. Yolanda Jerry; Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Jacques; Staff Sgts. Gregory Buford and Rachel Thompson; and Senior Airman Andrew Pratt.

345th Airlift Squadron - Staff Sgt. Travis Hurst and Senior Airman Mason Euler.

403rd Wing - Senior Master Sgt. Bambi Clark; Master Sgts. Winifred Bass and James Sieloff; Tech. Sgts. Amber Pacheco, Yesenia Pena, Dedrick Powell, Sierra Spencer, Leatrice Vassel, Latanya Winn and Brian Vines; Staff Sgts. Rickey Carroll, John Fortner, Damian Hebert, Sean McGovern and Johnnie Sims; and Senior Airmen Nicholas Harich and David Vennen.

815th Airlift Squadron - Master Sgt. Joseph Helm and Tech. Sgt. Douglas Otten.

Air Force Legal Operations Agency - Staff Sgt. Merissa Pough.