RAFB communications unit recognized for sustained superior performance

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Special to the Journal

Robins AFB Georgia– The Fifth

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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