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Fairchild NCO to be honored with Bronze Star

Kevin Graman
March 30, 2010

If U.S. forces are to depart Afghanistan, they are going to have to leave behind better police than they found there in 2001.

To that end, Senior Master Sgt. Jimmie J. Hughes, a member of the 92nd Logistics Readiness Squadron, has done his nation a tremendous service by showing Afghan National Police “a better way.”

The 47-year-old noncommissioned officer from Thousand Oaks, Calif., will be presented today at Fairchild Air Force Base with the Bronze Star Medal for “exceptionally meritorious service.”

According to his citation, Hughes developed and fielded 17 mobile training teams and provided training to 54 police units while attached to the logistics embedded training team at Camp Eggers in Kabul under the command of the U.S. Army.

“Every time you change one person you change the society,” said Hughes.

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