Logistics team hauls in AF award

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  • By Dan Neely
  • 919th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs
DUKE FIELD, Fla. --  If it moves on or deploys from Duke Field, it doesn't do so without the 919th Logistics Readiness Squadron. That's how its commander summarizes the mission of his unit that just won the Air Force's 2010 Air Reserve Component Base Logistics Activity award.

Cleaning house at the command level with five individual supply category awards and one unit award before moving up to win the combined unit trophy capped off "a very, very fulfilling year," said Lt. Col. Scott McDonald. "This award says a lot about the incredible job our people do here."

The commander rattled off a staggering list of day-to-day support his reservists provide for the 919th Special Operations Wing mission -- fueling airplanes, maintaining and stocking war readiness supply and aircraft spare parts kits for deployments, transporting personnel, conducting logistics planning, building and loading pallets for airdrop missions and maintaining vehicle fleets, to name but a few.

Scheduled to depart in mid-July for a new assignment at Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command, Colonel McDonald said he used his final unit training assembly to thank his Airmen for their outstanding efforts in building an award-winning team.

"Having been at this wing before, then returning as the LRS commander has been a great experience," he said. "We have a huge (squadron), and the full-time personnel that oversee this organization in its day-to-day mission are nothing less than superior.

"Their ability to keep things going daily when we don't have the manning to sustain the type of mission requirements that we have is absolutely outstanding," he continued. "I can't say enough about how awesome this organization is. They are truly deserving of this Air Force-level award."