Special to the Journal
combat communications unit has just been presented with the Air Force
Information Dominance Major General Harold M. McClelland (Large Unit) award for
2012. The Annual Awards
recognizes Air Force officers and enlisted members, federal civilian employees,
teams, and units for sustained superior performance while providing information
dominance and cyberspace operations to Air Force and Department of Defense
missions and operations.
Col.
William Waynick, 5th CCG commander, said the unit award is a validation of the
hard work and sacrifices the 5th MOB Airmen (unit nickname) and their families
put forth over the past year. “The 5th Combat
Communications Group is unique in that it’s not just made up our nation’s best cyber warriors, but
also the best air traffic control and landing systems operators and
maintainers, power production and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
technicians, logisticians, transporters, supply troops, trainers, vehicle
operators and maintainers, civilian engineers, resource managers, and
program coordinators,” he explained. “The point is that this unit is
rich in capability and is manned with the most professional Airmen in the U.S.
Air Force.”
Some of
the 5th CCG’s accomplishments in 2012 include having the last cyber Airmen
“boots on the ground” during the drawdown of Operation Iraqi Freedom,
leading cyber support for more than 3,000 International Security Assistance
Force personnel and establishing an Operation Enduring Freedom command and
control radio net. Additionally 56 Airmen volunteered more than 600 hours
assisting with the repair of an aqueduct for an Afghan village.
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