Major Hunte AETC Field Grade Weather Officer of the year for 2009. Published March 17, 2010 By Susan Grigg Keesler News editor KEESLER AFB, Miss -- Maj. Barry Hunte, 335th Training Squadron, is Air Education and Training Command's field grade weather officer of the year for 2009. Major Hunte, who's served as the weather school's flight commander since August 2005, is serving a one-year deployment as weather adviser to the Iraq Air Force. He led a joint information exchange between the Iraq Meteorological Organization and Air Force Combat Climatology Center and provided observation and equipment training in preparation for the transfer of responsibility to the Baghdad International Airport. He championed a weather sharing agreement between the Iraq Air Force and the IMO and guided adaptation of mission execution forecasting to eliminate an outdated process. Major Hunte organized as weather support systems cadre course that trained 100 percent of Iraq's Air Force weather officers and assisted the Iraq Air Force's weather officer in briefing leadership on a new concept that provides a baseline for future weather operations. He managed execution of the Iraqi Air Force's first weather initial skills course and authored its forecasting/observer course. Major Hunte's wife, Lisa, is a registered nurse in the 81st Surgical Operations Squadron