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NEWS | June 23, 2009

Congratulations to Team Charleston’s newest technical sergeant selects

By Trisha Gallaway 437th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Eighty-two Charleston Airmen were selected for promotion to the rank of technical sergeant June 18.

Air Force officials selected 7,724 of 37,172 eligible staff sergeants for promotion to technical sergeant for a selection rate of 20.78 percent. 

The average score for those selected was 319.69, with an average time in grade and time in service of 5.68 and 10.85 years respectively. The average score was based on the following point averages: 133.29 for enlisted performance reports, 67.67 for the promotion fitness exam, 56.78 for the specialty knowledge test, 40.54 for time in grade, 23.95 for time in service and 5.36 for decorations.

Those staff sergeants selected for promotion to technical sergeant are:

1st Combat Camera Squadron: Brendan Cochran and Tabitha Levingston 

16th Airlift Squadron: Steven Gore 

17th Airlift Squadron: John Gudmundson, Christopher Koch, Lindy Millikin and Samuel Stewart 

373rd Training Squadron, Detachment 5: Matthew Blackwell, Shawn Delang, Tommy Hendrix, Benjamin Massarelli, Keith Morris, Matthew Morrison, Andrew Preuss and Joseph Proctor 

437th Aerial Port Squadron: Romeo Castro, Martin Childs, Gregory Jasinski, Darrell Lewis, Jarrett McCarthy, Anthony Morgan, James Scarbrough, Michael Sibley and Andre Turner 

437th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: Alimayu Anderson, Joshua Avelar, Peter Axiotis, Carlos Caballero, Willie Dawson, Gene Kissman, Jason Maldonado, Paul Martinez, Charles Raper, Richard Schoonmaker, Shane Spradlin, Jeffrey Taylor and David Warner 

437th Airlift Wing: Karen Ezell 

437th Civil Engineer Squadron: Lee Bobb, Tisha Drayton-Brown, Kevin McCormick, Alicia Mildren, Kenneth Shockley and John Talbott 

437th Communications Squadron: Steffan Fritz and Joshua Hutchins 

437th Force Support Squadron: John Busco, Jeremy Graham, Harvey Greenwood, Antonio Hudson, Doris Ishman, Robert Payne and Oniqua White-Muldrow 

437th Logistics Readiness Squadron: Dawnique Coles, Kevin Hendershott, Christopher Masterson, Darren Perry, Jeffery Storie and Melissa Wood 

437th Maintenance Group: Andrew Alford 

437th Maintenance Squadron: Lee Bugay, James Curtis, Adam Hamblin, Tarean Neville and Jason Whitehead 

437th Maintenance Operations Squadron: Michael Balarillo, Antonio Little, Caceres Rosario, Ruben Ruiz, Joseph Sparlin and Matthew Taylor 

437th Medical Group: Aimee Edwards, Chun Fong, Clay Phipps and Amber Saienni 

437th Operations Group: Bryan Fox, Derek Howard and James Snyder 

437th Operations Support Squadron: Nicholas Patterson and Michael Tate 

437th Security Forces Squadron:
Stephen Beckemeyer and Jason Dietrick