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NEWS | June 14, 2007

Top-performing Airmen selected for promotion

By Public Affairs 437th Airlift Wing

Thursday, 61 Charleston Airmen were selected for promotion to master sergeant and 95 were selected for technical sergeant.

This year, 24,115 Airmen were eligible for promotion to master sergeant, and 6,002 were selected -- an Air Force wide selection percentage rate of 24.89 percent. The Air Mobility Command rate was 25.13 percent and the base rate was 20.13 percent.

The number of Airmen eligible for promotion to technical sergeant was 39,797, and 7,314 were selected. The Air Force selection rate was 18.38 percent. The AMC rate was 17.06 percent and the base rate was 19.75 percent

Those selected for promotion to master sergeant were:

1st Combat Camera Squadron: Lisa Bailey, Piper Faulisi, John Foster and Joseph McLean
17th Airlift Squadron: Rene Delarosa and Peter Scheidt
373rd Training Squadron: Aaron Moutray
437th Aerial Port Squadron: Daniel Capstick, Willis Holt, Marrian James, Antonio Johnson, Joseph Klapperich, Gaither Moore and Virgil Parks
437th Aero Medical-Dental Squadron: Kenneth Friday
437th Airlift Wing: Paul Kilgallon
437th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: Michael Bright, Brian Carpenter, Monica Herring, Russe Killpatrick and Ronald Smith
437th Civil Engineer Squadron: Gerald Amidon, Quincy Banks, Christopher Mills and Jens Walle
437th Communications Squadron: Curtis Jamison, Charles Rowe and James Siroky
437th Comptroller Squadron: Robert Peirce
437th Logistics Readiness Squadron: Matthew Amerson, Marshall Brown, David Elkins, Barclay Frum, Ronald Jones, Lori Miller and Donald Scott
437th Maintenance Operations Squadron: Kenneth Kincer and Brad Kline
437th Maintenance Squadron: Patrick Carter, Gregory Gould, Buddy King, Jay Kissinger, Rodney Koonce, Hermann Kuebitz, Donald Scott, Tony Skumanick and Rodney Wideman
437th Medical Group: Shawn Coleman, Shawn Daniels and Darin Elwood
437th Medical Operations Squadron: Tina Friday
437th Mission Support Squadron: Rico Evans
437th Operations Support Squadron: Todd Bigney, Jason Brown, Kevin Hill, Michael Sheldon and Tammy Thompson
437th Security Forces Squadron: Jeffrey Wagner
437th Services Squadron: Brenda McLain
Air Force Combat Climatology Center: Gary Ellingson and John Nelson

Those selected for promotion to technical sergeant were:

1 CTCS: Suzanne Day, Luella DeLee and Jeremy Zier
14th Airlift Squadron: Neil Aronson, Stephen Brown, Aaron Kubatka and Peter McCann
373 TRS: John Andringa, Gerrick Hoffman, Benjamin Howell, Paul Lumpkin II, Kevin McDonald and Yolandra Rodriguez
437 APS: Georgiann Braun, Brian Francis, Robert Kolbe III, Jonell McFadden and John Wilson II
437 AMDS: Donald Barr, Carletta James, Christina Lujan and Jennifer Wilson
437 AMXS: Aaron Abercrombie, Gabriel Baca, Shawn Conway, Michael Depew, Justin Eisert, Michael Gause, Jacob Gibson, Eugene Guse, William Henke, Christopher Jones, Jimmy Kent Jr., Jeremiah Kincade, Jose Lopez, Cao Nguyen, Christopher Ressa, Michael Rickey, Jerry Roten, Eric Schroeder, Salvator Sciortino, Enrico Sherman, Mark Stone, Jason Thomas and Jonathan Wilson
437 CES: Jenae Shanks, Jason Taylor, Rashad Westry and Michael Williams
437 CS: Angel Alvarado-Rivera
437th Contracting Squadron: Hector Lopez
437 LRS: Myshante Carr, Michael Krawzak, Barry Rolland and Jeromy Storman
437th Maintenance Group: William Kusar and Dennis Martin Jr.
437 MXS: Warren Bailey, Douglas Berry, Tamekia Bizzell, Joel Bundesen, Edouard Conrad, James Davis Jr., Jason Kronenberg, Daniel Mayer, Wanda Pulliam, Nick Rykal, Brandon Valentine and Robert Zabawa
437 MDG: Amanda Medlin
437 MOS: Melissa Copeland and Shannon McLeod
437 MSS: Marlon Jackson
437th Operations Group: Zachary Gronau, Brian Little and Jeremy Ridgway
437 OSS: Curtis Dunlap, Ryan Eads, Robert Eastburn, Joshua Pogue and Terence Williams
437 SFS: Thomas Beaudrie, Danyon Blair, Richard Brown, Ryan Hall, Matthew Maple, Joseph Mattox, Matthew Pease, John Singleton and James White
437 SVS: Amos Seymore Jr.
AFCC: Robert Coe, Collen Covert, Michael Ross II and Gregory Shadman