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Officials announce Sijan Award winners
Posted 1/31/2011
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1/31/2011 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- Air Force officials announced the winners of the 2010 Lance P. Sijan Leadership Award.
The Sijan Award annually recognizes four Airmen who demonstrate outstanding leadership abilities. Officer and enlisted honorees are chosen in senior and junior categories.
Lt. Col. Tony Millican of Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., was named the winner in the senior officer category. While deployed, Colonel Millican successfully commanded 80 high-threat convoys. During the aftermath of a suicide vehicle attack, Colonel Millican commanded post-attack recovery actions, accounting for all of his 600 personnel, despite sustaining hearing damage and head trauma.
The junior officer recipient is 1st Lt. Kathryn Miles of Luke AFB, Ariz. Lieutenant Miles was recognized for her leadership as an engineer for the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team while deployed to Forward Operating Base Lion, Afghanistan. While deployed, she was in charge of 36 projects essential to building the capacity of the Panjshir government worth more than $27 million. Lieutenant Miles commanded a four-vehicle convoy under small-arms fire for more than 50 minutes after fragments from a detonated improvised explosive device missed her vehicle by less than five meters.
The senior enlisted recipient is Senior Master Sgt. Brett Rogers of Kirtland AFB, N.M. Sergeant Rogers led 44 Airmen, completing more than 300 combat missions and defusing 35 IEDs. He also instructed Iraqi Army and Police Bomb Squad members in critical techniques and skills, so those agencies could assume the explosive ordnance disposal mission throughout Kirkuk, Iraq, in support of Article 24, Sovereignty Agreement.
In the junior enlisted category, Staff Sgt. Michael Pereira of Eglin AFB, Fla., led a three-person team in support of the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Stryker Brigade Combat Team during Operation Opportunity Hold in Kandahar province, Afghanistan.
The awards will be presented at a later date. The winners are also authorized to wear the Air Force Recognition Ribbon.
For more information on this and other Air Force recognition programs, visit the AFPC personnel services website at http://gum.afpc.randolph.af.mil, or call the Total Force Service Center at 800-525-0102.
(Air Force Personnel, Services and Manpower Public Affairs) |
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