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7 claim AETC recognition

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  • By Susan Griggs
  • 81st Training Wing Public Affairs
KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. --  Seven Keesler members earned recognition in the Air Education and Training Command Information Dominance Awards and the General John P. Jumper Awards for Warfighting Integration competitions.

Winners are:

Cyber surety noncommissioned officer -- Tech. Sgt. Mark Lorenzo, 333rd Training Squadron network defense instructor (photo unavailable). Sergeant Lorenzo led training to certify 34 emission security managers, upgrading the EMSEC course and designing the EMSEC lab. He corrected a system failure in the 81st Training Group's cyber campus training network within one hour. He built six master training plans, loaded 2,200 information assurance job qualification items and 800 milestones. He was a distinguished graduate of the Mathies NCO Academy.

Cyber transport systems NCO -- Staff Sgt. Jose Ramos, 338th TRS instructor. He led 550 hours of instruction, providing 83 trained network technicians. He volunteered for a 191-day joint expeditionary tasking as a administrator for the third largest network in the area of responsibility for the Army in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn. He implemented 775 system updates and eradicated 35,000 vulnerabilities. He executed 53 time compliance network orders and information assurance vulnerability alerts, eliminating 521 network threats.

Cyberspace operations field grade officer -- Maj. Carol Blackington, 338th TRS director of operations. Major Blackington's cyber experience propelled more than 90 courses and ensured quality instruction for more than 940 Airmen. She deployed with the Army as combat adviser in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom's transition to Operation New Dawn. She coordinated highly-sensitive special operations forces missions leading to the capture of more than 100 terrorists and facilitated critical security efforts during the Iraqi election ballot recount.

Civilian assistant specialist -- Clair "Kit" Thompson, 81st Communications Squadron client system technician. Mr. Thompson orchestrated installation and configuration of 300 computers for undergraduate cyber training. He identified and fixed a key management server error, avoiding a basewide network shutdown; resolved a software issue enabling critical end-of-year finance processing and corrected a logon error affecting 9,000 e-mail accounts. He also led migration of Keesler's e-mail accounts to the AFNet system.

Ground radar systems airman -- Senior Airman Charles Boyd III, 338th TRS instructor. In his first six months as an instructor, he taught 441 hours with no failures, receiving an "outstanding" classroom evaluation during the base's Unit Compliance Inspection and delivering 47 technicians to the field. He's assumed NCO responsibilities for several key programs within his unit. He assisted a U.S. Air Force Europe special maintenance team that optimized air traffic control radars, leading 12 radar updates at Lajes Field, Azores.
Ground radar systems.

Ground radar systems NCO -- Staff Sgt. Lee Echtle, 81st Training Support Squadron curriculum developer. Sergeant Echtle engineered a training reference data base linking 195 job qualification standard and qualification training packages across 11 Air Force specialty codes and was handpicked to test the new JQS/QTP management database. He completed 240 checklist items to prepare for 2nd Air Force's standards evaluation, conducted nine JQS reviews and completed security forces augmentee training.

Gen. John P. Jumper Warfighting Integration Award -- Capt. Ryan Curtiss, 333rd TRS. Captain Curtiss was instrumental in the standup of undergraduate cyber training four months ahead of schedule, serving as an instructor, block lead and resident certified space professional and space subject matter expert. He led critical ground software qualification, installation and checkout and evaluated phase I courseware, identifying and fixing several critical flaws. He directed development of highly elliptical orbit flight software processes and prepared for the inaugural on-orbit upgrade of the integrated tactical warning attack and assessment certification mission system.
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