August 2019

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Commander’s Column Wing Commander Col. Peter T. Green III Airmen & Airpower Vice Commander Col. William ‘Sling’ Bladen Command Chief Is Your Chair Broken? Chief Master Sgt. Maryanne Walts Chief of Staff Headlines & Highlights Command Minute Lt. Col. John D. Keeler Chief of Public Affairs View all Command Media, news, full-time vacancies and Capt. Anthony Mutti CCAF Honorees more on the 104th Fighter Wing Mobile App, available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store Public Affairs Officer 2nd Lt. Amelia Leonard Welcomes, Farewells, Promotions Public Affairs Staff Senior Master Sgt. Julie Avey Individual Readiness Master Sgt. Lindsey Sarah Watson-Kirwin Senior Airman Randy Burlingame Airman 1st Class Sara Kolinski

ANG Director, Mayor, 4th of July 1 ByCommander’s Col. Peter T. Green III, 104th Fighter Wing Column: commander The Mission and Family

in all four of the Major Graded Areas; this exercise possible and especially to ceremony that celebrates the recent executing the mission, leading the Lt. Col. Dan ‘Riddler’ Yerrington for his Senate confirmation of Lt. Col. Andrew people, managing the leadership as the Wing Project Officer. ‘Bishop’ Jacob (104th Operations Group resources, and improving the unit. The commander) promotion to the rank of final inspection report was distributed Our summer also tasked us with colonel. An excellent addition to the to the group, squadron, and flight relocating and recovering our wing leadership team, we congratulate commanders to review and share. Our maintenance and aviation missions to and look forward to the future promotion next ACC assessment will be a and from Westover Air Reserve Base ceremony. midpoint review in 2021. to allow needed repairs to our runway. This was another team effort to ensure Later this month I have the privilege to We have also successfully completed we could successfully execute our accept the National Guard Association our Arctic Challenge exercise to maintenance operations and support our of the (NGAUS) Bodo Airbase, Norway, where our continuation pilot training and our alert Distinguished Flying Unit award for ops and maintenance participated in mission. It was such a huge effort by the period of exceptionally meritorious executing defensive and offensive so many to ensure this went well that I service from Jan. 1, 2018 to Dec. 31, counter-air missions with eight other cannot thank everyone in this column 2018. This award is a tribute to all of nations including Sweden, Norway, without missing someone, so I will just you, who support our ability to have Hello Barnestormers, United Kingdom, Germany, France, say thank you to all. been an outstanding flying wing every Canada, Denmark, and Finland. During day. I hope you are enjoying your summer the exercise, the wing flew 119/120 In July, we welcomed back Col. Tom and the long break between the June and programmed lines, for a total of 241.6 ‘Sling’ Bladen. Formerly the operations In closing, enjoy the rest of the summer August Regularly Scheduled Drill. This hours. Ninety-eight of these sorties were group commander, Col. Bladen was and take time to re-energize and connect is a great way to help all of us balance Large Force Employment sorties (up to hand-selected among a very competitive with family and friends. It is important our mission and family during traditional 66 aircraft vs 34 aircraft). Dissimilar Air field of applicants to participate in a to balance work and time off. Please summer activities. Combat Training sorties were also flown yearlong Corporate Fellowship tour with continue to keep your situational with F-16s, F-35s, F-18s, Eurofighters, Textron. Colonel Bladen brings a wealth awareness high and watch out for each During our last RSD, we had inspectors Grippens, Rafales, Mirage 2000-5 of leadership and management abilities, other during the final days of summer. on base for our and –C, and RAF Typhoons. We also and we extend our congratulations to him Thank you for all Unit Effectiveness Inspection executed 20 cross-country sorties for as the vice commander. you do! (CAPSTONE). The results are in, and over 150 hours to get to and from the our overall rating was EFFECTIVE exercise. My thanks to all who made Coming up, we’ll be hosting a pinning Go Barnestormers! 2 ByAirmen Senior Airman Randy & Burlingame Airpower: and Airman 1st Class EOD Sara Kolinski Trains for Deployed Mission with 24-Hour Ops Twelve teams of EOD Airmen logged themselves into more competent EOD have to work with them. So training like over 106 hours, completed 117 exercises, techs,” said Krider. “By putting them in this this, especially when mixing up your team and covered wartime counter improvised environment, we give them a background to leaders and team members, you get to see explosive devices, unexploded ordnance, draw from.” a lot of different approaches and a lot of chemical ordnance, recover of an airbase different mentalities. You also learn from denied by ordnance, and team leader down Staff Sgt. Ethan Johnson, 119th Civil that, that there are multiple ways to solve a drills. Engineering Squadron EOD technician, problem.” attended Audacious Warrior for the third Training in field conditions and performing time and said he continues to find growth as For Krider, it all comes down to making sure 24-hour operations prepared Airmen for a technician through the training. Airmen are prepared to utilize their skills in the intensity of deployment by giving them the real world. experience and confidence to draw from. “You get a wide variety of problems and you get the opportunity with that variety to kind “It’s just another facet that helps us prepare “This is meant to create stress similar to a of hone how you think through a problem, them for a deployment the best that we can,” deployment, where you don’t get eight hours and how you work your way through that said Krider. of sleep, and you don’t get as much rest,” problem,” said Johnson. “Developing that said Master Sgt. Rob Krider, 104th Civil confidence is that you can look at a problem, Engineering Squadron Explosive Ordnance you can figure out what needs to be done, Disposal operations non-commissioned and you do it and it works. officer in charge. “When these teams find themselves in that position in the real world One of the adjustments the EOD technicians Staff Sgt. Jesse Poulsen, 142nd Civil Engineering Squadron they already understand it, and they already had to make was growing used to working Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician, helps Staff Sgt. Eric Franco, 104th CES EOD technician, put on a bomb know how to focus and work through that.” with a new team. Airmen were teamed suit before inspecting a car for a potential vehicle-borne with other technicians from outside of their improvised explosive device during Audacious Warrior Teams of three EOD technicians responded normal shop to replicate what it would 2019, June 21, 2019, at Volk Field Base, An Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician interrogates Wisconsin. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st to problems at all hours of the night on a be like to work with new people during a a vehicle for potential threats and utilizes hook and line Class Sara Kolinski) equipment to remotely move unexploded ordnance during rotating basis, with some problems taking deployment. Audacious Warrior 2019, June 21, 2019, at Fort McCoy, Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians 1-2 hours and others taking up to 5 hours or Wisconsin. Audacious Warrior is an annual exercise that more. “Getting to work with different people provides EOD Airmen from the Air National Guard and Air from 14 Air National Guard and Air Force Force Reserve with classroom and scenario-based training Reserve units attended Audacious Warrior is great, because when we deploy we’re that they may not be at their respective home stations. 2019 at Volk Field Air National Guard Base “You have to give them something not necessarily going to be deploying as a (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Randy Burlingame) and Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, June 16 - 28, authentic to help them understand their shop” said Johnson. “You’re going to get 2019. strengths and their weaknesses, and develop thrown in with a team and you’re going to 3 Is Your Chair Broken? By Maj. Kenneth M. Devoie, 104th Fighter Wing chaplain

that sustain and hold us up. Like a solid religion per se, although it would not and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs chair, all need to present and balanced necessarily exclude that. The dimension Type Indicator, a popular psychometric to maintain a good grounding in life. of spirituality guides us in how we instrument, has been developed from If life throws us a curve ball in some approach and related to each other, life, Jung’s theories. Jung saw the human way, as it often does, and one of the death, the world, our place and meaning psyche as, “by nature religious,” and legs is removed (i.e. a physical or social in the universe. Spirituality assists to made this religiousness the focus of his problem), the other three legs can sustain provide us with the underpinnings of explorations. us for a time until we mend. morality, principles, ethics and informs us on how to make sense of the many The big picture point, and what I But what if we are starting out with only mysteries of this life – things that a job, want you to consider, is the integral three legs to begin with and life throws money, material things and other people importance of the role of spirituality us a curve ball? Hmmm…we end up cannot give to us. Spiritually assists in wellness and balance in life. I have balancing on only two legs, which can us in approaching the ideas of a God seen a decrease, over the years, in the be done with tremendous effort, but will and life beyond this world. Spiritually personal development of the spiritual eventually cause us to tumble down. In assists in connecting and weaving domain of wellness amongst our my years of experience as a Chaplain, together all of other aspects of life. Airmen. Without it, we set ourselves I’ve noticed, with increasing frequency, up to living with only three legs of A while ago, I was looking at a chair that many of our people have totally Carl Jung was a Swiss psychotherapist well-being in place, which makes us that had a broken leg, leaving it with neglected developing one or more of the and psychiatrist who founded vulnerable to those curve balls of life, only three functional legs. The chair critical domains of personal wellness, analytical psychology. Jung proposed which can set us up for a tumble. I was still usable, in that it could still bear thus leaving themselves imbalanced and and developed the concepts of the want you to be strong, courageous, and the weight of a person. In many ways vulnerable to the curve ball of life that extraverted and the introverted dangerous to our enemies and a person a four legged chair could represent our will eventually be coming. personality, archetypes, and the full of HOPE about all that living this personal well-being that is made up collective unconscious. His work has life can mean. You are wonderfully of the four domains of wellness: the So, as your Chaplain and one who cares been influential in psychiatry and in important! Consider how your spiritual physical, mental, social and spiritual. about your spiritual well-being, I want to the study of religion, literature, and wellness can be strengthened. ask you; how is your spiritual wellness? related fields. Jung created some Our resiliency, the ability to bounce When I speak of spiritual well-being, I of the best known psychological You have a great wellness team here at back, is dependent upon these four am not speaking about your belonging concepts, including the archetype, the Barnes, we care and are here for you. domains. They are the legs of wellness to and participating in an organized collective unconscious, the complex, Let’s talk. ☺ Many blessings! 4 Headlines & Highlights 104th Public Affairs Office

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Master Sgt. Erin Barr Master Sgt. Kristin Martin Staff Sgt. Dakota Bordelon Staff Sgt. Ashley Martins Staff Sgt. Brian Boudreau Staff Sgt. Kelley McLean Master Sgt. Kylie Burns-Whalen Staff Sgt. Tammy Midwood Senior Master Sgt. Adam Casineau Staff Sgt.Michael Moran Retired Tech. Sgt. Melanie Casineau Tech. Sgt. Cindi Muszynski Master Sgt. Heather Cekovsky Master Sgt. Timothy Mutti Staff Sgt. Jared Collins Staff Sgt. Dillon Natle Master Sgt. Todd Collins Master Sgt. Robert Ollquist Staff Sgt. Bruce Cordero Master Sgt. Gerald Paquette Staff Sgt. Justin Devine Staff Sgt. RyAnn Parker Senior Master Sgt. Tina Dimino-Frazer Tech. Sgt. Austin Putnam Senior Airman Jesse Fimian Staff Sgt. Allison Rand Senior Master Sgt. Marc Gauvin Tech. Sgt. Shaun Reagan Tech. Sgt. Kevin Gould Senior Master Sgt. Charles Richardson Courtney Greene Staff Sgt. Amarilis Rodriguez Senior Master Sgt. William Greenwood Master Sgt. Michael Roncarati Tech. Sgt. Mariska Harbachuck Staff Sgt. Ben Roncarati Master Sgt. Michael Hoar Staff Sgt. Przemyslaw Szura Master Sgt. Michael Kearns Master Sgt. Stephan Warren Senior Master Sgt. James Kelley Master Sgt. Lindsey Watson-Kirwin Staff Sgt. Andrew Lawrence Tech Sgt. Jason Wyse Congratulations! 6 Highlights, Welcomes, Farewells and Promotions 104th Public Affairs Office

Barnestormers Return From Deployment Welcomes Airman 1st Class Joshua Cox, CF Airman 1st Class Devin M. Dupuis, MXS Airman 1st Class Gavin Bogalhas, MXS Senior Airman Jeremy Furusho, AMXS Staff Sgt. Nelson Benvido, FSS Tech. Sgt. Ian McAlister, AMXS Farewells Staff Sgt. Rory McLean, CF Staff Sgt. Thomas DeCarlo, CE Promotions Airman Ryan Mooney, SFS Airman Ivan Villavicencio, SFS Airman William Dejesus, SFS Airman Anthony Basile, SFS Airman Hannah Griswold, OSF Airman 1st Class Sara Kolinski, FW Senior Airman Fallon Lundgren, FW Senior Airman Randy Burlingame, CE Senior Airman Gage Czarniecki, OSF Senior Airman Selena Toro-Brown, AMXS Staff Sgt. David Ball, CES Staff Sgt. Trevor Larson, AMXS Staff Sgt. Daniel Berg, CES Staff Sgt. Cameron Servantez, MXS Staff Sgt. Christopher Ienaco, CF Tech. Sgt. Blake Wirth, SFS Tech. Sgt. Trevor Tompkins, FW Tech. Sgt. Shaun St.Clair, CF Tech. Sgt. Jason Duffy, MXS Tech. Sgt. Bruce Cordero, MXS Master Sgt. Robert Ollquist, FW Master Sgt. Lindsey Watson-Kirwin, FW Master Sgt. Garrett Moulton, AMXS Master Sgt. Sara Jean Jacobsen, MOF Senior Master Sgt. David Sutherland, OSF Senior Master Sgt. Sandra Krider, FW

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