The Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz signed a directive memorandum here recently granting the Air Force Network Operations commander centralized order-issue authority over the operation, defense, maintenance and control of Air Force networks.  (U.S. Air Force graphic)

By Tech. Sgt. Amaani Lyle
Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs

WASHINGTON -- The Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz signed a directive memorandum here recently granting the Air Force Network Operations commander centralized order-issue authority over the operation, defense, maintenance and control of Air Force networks. 

As part of an ongoing service-wide cyber operations transformation, the Air Force will establish a centralized user directory and e-mail service known as ADX that will service all Air Force network users. 

The changes will be relatively transparent to most network users, but this migration to centralized services will significantly improve security and efficiency on the Air Force Global Information Grid, officials said. 

"Major commands and subordinate commanders will no longer 'own' networks, but will be responsible for their portion of the larger AF-GIG," General Schwartz stated in a mass e-mail to Airmen.  (More)

Airman Category		NCO Category		Senior NCO Category		CGO Category
Senior Airman Ian Tyson		Tech. Sgt.  Jeremy Grant		Senior Master Sgt. Susan Antolini		Capt.  Marco Cardenas

FGO Category		Civilian Category I		Civilian Category II		Civilian Category III
Maj. Josh Yanov		Sheila Hollman		Jerrell Riggins		James McCormack

NCO Category		Senior NCO Category		Senior CGO Category		FGO Category
Tech. Sgt. Timothy King		Senior Master Sgt. Derwin Henderson		Capt. Dennis Smith		Lt. Col. Joseph Imwalle

Civilian Category I		Civilian Category II		Civilian Category III
Michael Harding		Kimberly Lindo		Evan Pressman
Not pictured: Junior CGO Category, Capt. Julienne White Team, 3DELRR

Airman Category		NCO Category		Senior NCO Category		CGO Category
Senior Airman Tamar Duncan		Tech. Sgt. Clayton Henrickson		Master Sgt. Orion Wirick		Capt. Alvin Otero

FGO Category		Civilian Category I		Civilian Category II		Civilian Category III
Lt. Col. Michael Block		Rayenal McClain		Lisa Bucci		Vincent Ross

Airman Category		NCO Category		Senior NCO Category		Civilian Category I
Airman 1st Class Andres Picado		Staff Sgt. John Dowling		Master Sgt. Tanisha Dodson		Kortnie Frye

Civilian Category II		Not pictured: CGO Category, Capt. Michael Biggs		Civilian Category III
Ardis Hearn				Michael Clark

Tech. Sgt. Jennifer Strait, an electronics technician in the Special Projects directorate of the Cryptologic Systems Group at Lackland AFB, Texas, recently earned the slot of 'Distinguished Graduate' of her class in the NCO Academy. (Photo by Larry Kishur)

By Larry Kishur
Cryptologic Systems Group

LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Tech. Sgt. Jennifer Strait, an electronics technician in the Special Projects directorate of the Cryptologic Systems Group at Lackland AFB in San Antonio earned the title “Distinguished Graduate” of her class during ceremonies last week at the Lackland AFB NCO Academy.

The Olympia, Wash., native began her military career in the Army National Guard in 1993. Her active duty stint with the Army lasted from 1996 until 1999. After a two-year hiatus, she joined the Air Force in 2001. Her first Air Force assignment sent her to the Brooks City Base in San Antonio.  In March 2006, she was stationed up the street at CPSG.

During the school weeks, Sergeant Strait, who has two daughters, Courtney, 13, and Kailen, 9, shared parenting duties so she could focus on the course.  Weekends, she said, “were still full of papers, study groups and speech writing, but we got away to the park a few times,” the sergeant said.

Strait said she “thoroughly enjoyed” the course and that she “learned a lot of new things.”  Not one to call attention to herself, Sergeant Strait didn’t hesitate to share the limelight. “I owe that (DG) to my instructor and classmates,” she said. “We had a really good group that wasn't afraid to disagree, and everyone was very professional.”  (More)

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