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Command recognizes top medical service people, units

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ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. --  Reservists and units from California to Massachusetts received Air Force Reserve Command medical service awards for fiscal year 2008.

Command officials announced the award recipients in a letter to commanders Aug. 13.

Individual awards went to the following people:

Brig. Gen. Beverly Lindsey Nursing Leadership Excellence Award - Lt. Col. Lynne Taylor, 932nd Airlift Wing, Scott AFB, Ill.

Brig. Gen. Donald B. Wagner Administrative Excellence Award - Maj. Donald Pruden, 710th Medical Squadron, Offutt AFB, Neb.

Aeromedical staging squadron Reserve officer - Capt. Sandra Tisdale, 349th ASTS, Travis AFB, Calif.

ASTS Reserve NCO - Master Sgt. Christopher Barone, 914th ASTS, Niagara Falls International Airport Air Reserve Station, N.Y.

ASTS Reserve airman - Senior Airman Tyler Underwood, 349th ASTS, Travis AFB

ASTS air reserve technician NCO - Tech. Sgt. Victorine Byrnes, 914th ASTS, Niagara Falls IAP ARS

Non-deployable medical unit Reserve officer - Maj. Jennifer Korkosz, 926th Aerospace Medicine Flight, Nellis AFB, Nev.

Non-deployable medical unit Reserve NCO - Tech. Sgt. Regina Gordon, 926th AMDS, Nellis AFB

Non-deployable medical unit ART NCO - Senior Master Sgt. Janet Faust, 459th AMDS, Andrews AFB, Md.

Deployable medical unit ART NCO - Master Sgt. Debra Bernhardt, 710th MDS, Offutt AFB

Aeromedical evacuation squadron ART officer - Maj. Marie Dufault, 439th AES, Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass.

AES ART NCO - Senior Master Sgt. Shane Cayson, 932nd AES, Scott AFB

AES Reserve officer - Maj. Shaun Carter, 932nd AES, Scott AFB

AES Reserve NCO - Tech. Sgt. Michael Stauth, 932nd AES, Scott AFB

AES Reserve airman - Senior Airman Starkey, 439th AES, Westover ARB

Unit awards went to the following:

Aerospace medicine squadron with generation support mission - 439th AMDS, Westover ARB

Medical squadron with generation mission - 932nd MDS, Scott AFB

250/150 bed ASTS - 445th ASTS, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

100 bed ASTS - 439th ASTS, Westover ARB

AES with C-130 primary mission design - 45th AES, MacDill AFB, Fla.

AES with primary mission design other than C-130 - 911th AES, Pittsburgh IAP ARS, Pa.

Medical quality initiative - 439th AES, Westover ARB

Reserve Officers Association Outstanding Reserve Medical Squadron - 911th AES, Pittsburgh IA PARS. (Air Force Reserve Command News Service)