Airey NCO Academy Graduation Published Feb. 18, 2011 By Senior Airman Rachelle Elsea 325th Fighter Wing Public Affairs TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Seventeen Team Tyndall technical sergeants graduated from the Airey NCO Academy during a ceremony Feb. 17 in the academy auditorium. Later that evening, a formal dinner was hosted at the Horizons Community Center, where more than 500 guests attended. Chief Master Sgt. Gean Alston, 325th Mission Support Group superintendent, spoke briefly at the dinner on the topic of "Medic...you are needed at the front." "Our noncommissioned officers are at the front line of supervision," said Chief Alston. "One of the basic responsibilities is to tend to the issues (wounds) of our Airmen. The wounds are not from bullets or shrapnel, but from personal stressors and the battlefield is not Iraq or Afghanistan, but any base or home station. If left unattended, they can have grave consequences, such as our (Air Force) high suicide rates." The evening events also featured several award winners: Zoe Didier-Purdie, Eglin Air Force Base - John L. Levitow Award Rebecca Wolf, Tyndall Air Force Base - Academic Achievement Award Neil Adams, Hulburt Field - Commandant Award The graduates from Tyndall were: Boe, Holly - 325th Maintenance Operations Squadron Boysun, Timothy - 325th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Brandy, Jason - 325th Force Support Squadron Brown, Joseph - 372nd Training Squadron, Detachment 4 Buckius, Christopher - 325th FSS Carden, Christopher - 81st Range Control Squadron Carmona, Carlo - 325th Security Forces Squadron Elsaleh, Hytham - 1st Air Force Harruff, Michael - 325th Maintenance Group Matos, Luis - 325th Medical Operations Squadron Mesa, Hector - 96th Force Support Squadron Morgan, Jeremy - Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency Parsons, Jason - 373rd Training Squadron, Detachment 9 Rutherford, Kelly - 325th Medical Group Villanueva, Rebekah - 325th Air Control Squadron Whitaker, Jeffrey - 325th Communications Squadron Wolf, Rebecca - 1st AF For more pictures from the event click here.