LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. –
The 480th Intelligence Wing salutes the second-quarter award winners for making an exceptional contribution to the wing's worldwide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations mission.
Airman of the Quarter: Staff Sgt. Andrew Evraets, 10th Intelligence Squadron
Then Senior Airman Evraets oversaw a $200,000 video processing unit upgrade, and provided the installation and training guide to the upgrade, which was key to unarmed vehicle operations in Iraq. He also piloted a mag media library reorganization fixing 108 write-ups and averting revocation of this classified data storage capability.
NCO of the Quarter: Tech. Sgt. Lucrica Gilliam, 27th Intelligence Support Squadron
Sergeant Gilliam leads a 15-member team, which is responsible for eight core intelligence systems that amount to a $440,000 dissemination enterprise. She also led her squadron through a major message server outage, restoring critical messaging capabilities in less than 20 minutes.
Senior NCO of the Quarter: Master Sgt. Layne Nelson, 30th IS
Sergeant Nelson masterfully orchestrated initial qualification training for a squadron influx of 24 personnel in 63 days, while simultaneously directing a 358-member training record review, correcting more than 1,000 discrepancies. Sergeant Nelson was also the architect for a $12,000 command linguistics program upgrade during the Command Language Program manager's absence, modernizing the entire program to meet the 497th Intelligence Group's number six priority.
Company Grade Officer of the Quarter: 1st Lt. Maraline Cronauer, 30th IS
Lieutenant Cronauer served as the mission commander for 14 ISR missions, completing more than 150 hours and exploiting more than 3,500 targets for the Global War on Terrorism. In addition, she was hand-picked to serve as the sole Joint Expeditionary Force Exercise '08 Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance mission commander, as which she provided inputs that will shape future joint war-fighting processes and systems.
Junior Civilian of the Quarter: Cheryl Winn, 9th IS
Ms. Winn mastered the Defense Travel System, tracking $76,000 in TDY funding with zero errors. She was also appointed the Drug Demand Reduction Program trusted agent and accomplished 100-percent compliance through the processing of 21 appointments.
Intermediate Civilian of the Quarter: Donald Straub, 13th IS
As the first civilian certified, Mr. Straub manned the U-2 product reporter position. During 14 missions, he authored three reports and taught official correction guidance to product reporters in training. He was also able to correct Foreign Language Proficiency Pay for nine members, leading to the recoup of more than $4,100 in back pay.
Senior Civilian of the Quarter: Donald Hensley, 480th IW
Mr. Hensley led the way for the integration of three new groups and five new mission areas into the 480th IW. He kept wing leadership apprised of events, which prepared leadership for meetings with the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency Senior Steering Group. In addition, he facilitated the information exchange between functional experts from across the wing and the 70th Intelligence Wing, to ensure wing personnel are prepared to pick up the new mission areas without mission degradation.
Special congratulations to the TEAM LANGLEY second-quarter award winners:
Staff Sgt. Andrew Evraets, 10th IS, Airman of the Quarter
Tech. Sgt. Lucrica Gilliam, 27th ISS, NCO of the Quarter