History, Awards & Kudos

Korean Defense Service Medal - how and where to request 1957 - Outstanding Unit Award - Award Orders 1957 - Outstanding Unit Award - newspaper article -- newspaper photo of Major Bertie and Captain Johns -- newspaper photo of the presentation ceremony 1960 -- A Job Well Done -- newspaper article regarding operation "Mobile Yoke" 1962 -- SEATO Exercise Ligitas -- newspaper article regarding operation Ligitas. 1967 -- Loss of CH-3, 62-12582 -Don Deidrich's account on the loss of CH-3, 62-12582. (A 1st Mob Alumni's account of the loss of 1st Mob TSgt Juan A. Maldonado in Laos.) [This is a link to the Jolly Green's Web site] 1967 -- AF Times, dated 30 Aug 1967: CLARK AB, RP - For the THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR, the 1st Mobile Communications Gp. here has received the AF Outstanding Unit Award. During 1966, the group deployed 141 teams, most in direct support of tactical operations in SEA. The group was cited for having to "overcome extreme living and working conditions in providing highly mobile communications and air traffic control facilities throughout the Pacific." - Contributed by Bob Thompson 1973 -- The Reverend Colonel -- newspaper article regarding our unique Commander 1988 -- Air Force News article -- 1st Combat Communications Squadron best in the Air Force - Contributed by Steve Ouellette 1996 -- Operation Joint Endeavour (1) --1st Combat Communications Squadron, Ramstein AB, Germany is in Tuzla AB, Bosnia, installing and maintaining communications equipment for troops supporting Operation Joint Endeavor. [From NATO World Wide Web Interface Web Site] 1996 -- Operation Joint Endeavour (2) --1st Combat Communications Squadron, Ramstein AB, Germany - Installation of antenna at Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia, supporting Operation Joint Endeavor. [From NATO World Wide Web Interface Web Site] 1998 -- 1st Combat Com supports operations In Italy --"We hit the ground running" - CERVIA AIR BASE, Italy [Link to a story in Air Force News by 1st Lt. Peter A. Kerr, 48th Expeditionary Operations Group Public Affairs.] 1998 -- 1st Combat Com IT Expert -- Besides installing a local-area network for Air Force users in Tuzla, Bosnia, Msgt. Sarah Finamore and her six-person team -- among the first troops deployed for Operation Joint Endeavor -- also set up and operated a tactical Automated Digital Network message center. [A link to a story by Bob Brewin on the FCW Government Technology Group web site] 1999 -- PRIMITIVE ALBANIAN AIRPORT BECOMES THROBBING NATO BASE -- More field work by the 1st Combat Communications Squadron [A link to the Cox News web site for a story by Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel] 1999 -- U.S. Air Forces in Europe article -- Combat Comm ends Bosnia mission while supporting Allied Force - Contributed by Steve Ouellette 2000 -- 1st Combat Com Veteran Sheryl Schmidt -- A veteran of the 1st Combat Communications Squadron is California's Deputy Secretary for Women Veterans [ A link to a story on the California Veterans Affairs Web Site] 2001 -- 1CCSQ ‘trains like they fight’ at Arctic Star exercise -- During Exercise Arctic Star, one of the 1st Combat Communication Squadron’s semiannual field training exercises, more than 80 members of the unit had a chance to train “like they fight.” [ A link to a USAFE News Story 2-12-01] 2002 -- Air Force Outstanding Unit Award -- Citation to accompany the award of the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award to the 32d Air Operations Group frpm 1 October 1998 to 30 June 2000. 2003 -- 1st Combat Communications Squadron up and running in Sierra Leone -- A link is to USAFE news story from latter part of July 03 on our folks doing a great job in support of Liberian Support Operations.