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 NCO Captures Aircraft Generation Award
SMSgt. Eric Truhn of the 20th FW at Shaw AFB, South Carolina, was awarded the 2002 Gen. Lew Allen, Jr., Trophy for leading more than 245 airmen in maintaining the squadron’s thirty F-16s to produce 5,329 sorties for more than 8,300 flying hours. As the sortie generation superintendent of the 78th FS, his leadership enabled the squadron to generate the large number of sorties from a limited number of airframes while sustaining a thirty-eight aircraft utilization rate for three months. Nineteen aircraft are the standard. The award, named in honor of the tenth chief of staff of the Air Force, recognizes outstanding job performance, job knowledge, proven leadership, and direct sortie involvement as well as other military qualities. |
